Papers of Joan St. C. Crane [manuscript], 1969-1995.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

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Born in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children born to Grace Hall and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. Ernest developed a love of literature and music from his mother, a trained opera singer and music teacher after her marriage, and gained a keen interest in outdoor sports--hunting, fishing, woodscraft--from his father, a doctor and avid naturalist. Divided between the family's home in Oak Park, Illinois, and their summer cottage on Lake Waldoon in Michigan, Ernest's chil...

University of Virginia. Library. Rare Book Dept.

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Crane, Hart, 1899-1932

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At the time of his early death at thirty-two in 1932, Hart Crane was already recognized as a major American poet, though he had published only two volumes of poetry and a handful of poems in various magazines. Born in the small town of Garretsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, the only child of Clarence A. and Grace Hart Crane, Harold Hart Crane experienced an unsettling childhood and adolescence that undoubtedly affected his adult personal life and poetical career. Though he was freed of economi...

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...

Massey, Linton R. (Linton Reynolds), 1900-1974

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Hale, Nancy,

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Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991

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American illustrator, type founder. From the description of Watercolor by Warren Chappell "Longnose the Dwarf" [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870994 From the description of Manuscript books illustrated by Chappell [manuscript], 1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870967 From the description of Illustrated letters [manuscript], 1975-1983. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647846181 Type desi...

Green, Julien, 1900-1998

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American writer in France. From the description of Papers of Julien Green [manuscript], 1985. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807967 American born French writer. From the description of Le visionnaire : galley proof, 1933. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136216 From the description of Papers of Julien Green [manuscript], 1976, 1988. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647827182 From the description of P...

Gresset, Michel.

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Shepard, Sam, 1943-....

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Sam Shepard, playwright and screenwriter. From the description of Silent tongue: screenplay, 1992 January - February 22. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608353 Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and actor Sam Shepard is perhaps best known for his play and film, Paris, Texas, as well as his acting roles in such films as Raggedy Man (1981), Steel Magnolias (1989), All the Pretty Horses (2000), and Black Hawk Down (2001). From the description ...

Erskine, Albert, 1911-1993

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Random House editor. From the description of Albert Erskine papers, 1930-1999. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647994034 From the description of Papers of Albert Erskine pertaining to William Faulkner [manuscript], 1931-1973. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647911508 Random House Editor. From the description of Correspondence of Albert Erskine with and about William Faulkner and Random House [manuscript], 1931-1972. (Universit...

Bowers, Fredson

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Author, editor, University of Virginia Professor of English. From the description of Papers of Fredson Thayer Bowers, 1595-1992 (bulk 1922-1992). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55225082 ...

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970

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American novelist. From the description of One Man's Initiation, 1917, 1968-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937079 American author, From the description of State of the nation [manuscript], 1944. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807708 American author. From the description of Screenplay by John Dos Passos [manuscript], 1934 October 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647830975 F...

Davenport, Guy

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American author. From the description of The bicycle rider [manuscript], galley proof, 1985. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647820340 From the description of Papers of Guy Davenport [manuscript], 1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821125 From the description of The Mimes of Herondas [manuscript], 1981. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647818418 From the description of Papers : of Guy Davenport, 1961-1979 [manu...

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964

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Marion Lowndes, Palisades, New York, was a close friend of artist, Gerald Murphy. Murphy was a painter, born in Boston, Mass. and lived in Palisades, New York. He was active in Europe around 1921, and painted in an abstract style. From the description of Marion Lowndes letters from Gerald Murphy, 1948-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557109 Gerald Murphy (1888-1964), painter and businessman, and Sara Wiborg Murphy (1883-1975) were wealthy American expatriates in Paris...

Adams, Frederick B. (Frederick Baldwin), 1910-2001

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Frederick B. Adams was director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. From the description of Correspondence : with Carl Zigrosser, 1948-1964. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902633 Noted collector, scholar and friend of Robert Frost. From the description of Introduction of Robert Frost at the Poetry Center, 1962 April 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50420452 ...

Settle, Mary Lee

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American author, journalist, and teacher; b. 1918. From the description of Mary Lee Settle collection, 1910-1990. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968715 American author. From the description of Papers of Mary Lee Settle [manuscript], 1988-1989. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833623 Mary Lee Settle (1918- ), American novelist, was born in Charleston, West Virginia, the daughter Joseph Edward and Rachel Tompkins Settle. She has...

Cohn, Louis Henry, Mrs.

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Captain Louis Henry Cohn (d. 1953) was a bookseller and Ernest Hemingway's first bibliographer. From the description of Louis Henry and Marguerite Cohn Ernest Hemingway collection, 1918-1983 (bulk 1925-1965). (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 575295719 ...

Collins, Carvel, 1912-1990

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Sept. 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He began writing while a student at Princeton University. He met his wife, Zelda, while serving in the US Army stationed in Alabama. His novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and he became an instant success. He published he Great Gatsby in 1925. Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 of a heart attack at age 44 while living in Los Angeles and working for the film industry....

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Ford, Ruth, 1911-2009

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Actress. From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford [manuscript], 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647845310 From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford, 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136577 Actress Ruth Ford was born on July 7, 1911 in Brookhaven, Mississippi to Charles and Gertrude Cato Ford. Her parents owned and managed hotels in several southern towns; as a result Ford and her brother, the poet, novelist and...

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

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American novelist and short-story writer. From the description of Letters, 1926-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494991 Willa Cather was an American novelist and short story writer. From the guide to the Willa Cather literary manuscripts, 1926-1940, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American novelist, journalist, and editor. From the description of Collection, 1908-1963. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research...

Peterson, Carla L., 1944-...

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In 1954, the Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, was in the process of re-opening its copper mines in the area. Those mines had been closed during the Depression due to unprofitable copper prices. In 1954, a surge in price made it feasible to re-open the mines. During the shut down years, ground water had continuously seeped into the mine shafts, ultimately balancing out at the water table. Divers Carl Peterson and Frank Hefling were hired to o...

Crane, Joan St. C.

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Curator of American Literature in the University of Virginia Library;bibliographer. From the description of Papers of Joan St. C. Crane [manuscript], 1969-1995. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647979342 ...

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

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American fiction writer. From the description of Papers of William Faulkner [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809728 From the description of Jacket, [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811922 From the description of Uncorrected galley proof of The Faulkner reader [manuscript], 1954 April 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809700 From the description of Photograph, 1962 Mar. 2...

Rudd, Hughes

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Samway, Patrick H.

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Jones, Waring,

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Waring Jones, journalist, collector and philanthropist. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage and other Westerns. From the description of Waring Jones collection of Zane Grey correspondence, 1910-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171298 Waring Jones, journalist, collector and philanthropist. Zane Grey, author of Riders of the Purple Sage and other Westerns. From the description of Waring Jones colle...