Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1954-2002.

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Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1954-2002.

Papers contain manuscripts of short stories and reviews by Casey, a draft of an untitled first novel, 1968; manuscripts sent for review including Alessandro Boffa's "You're an animal, Viscovitz"; correspondence with family, friends, former students and publishers; and miscellaneous material including videocassettes, clippings, awards. Correspondents include (among others) Carl D. Brandt, Frank Conroy, Nancy Hale, John Irving, Carol Brown Janeway, Mary Motley Kalergis, Helen Pancake, Peter Taylor, Paul Theroux, and Kurt Vonnegut.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Janeway, Carol Brown.

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Irving, John, 1942-....

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American author. From the description of Introduction to a reading by Donald Justice to the Academy of American Poets at The Pierpont Morgan Library : typescript signed : [n.p.], 1982 Dec. 9 [date delivered]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874945 John Irving, screenwriter and author of source material. From the description of The cider house rules: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517206 ...

Theroux, Paul

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Casey, John (John Peter Anthony), 1939-

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Author and University of Virginia professor of English. From the description of Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1954-2002. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647988955 American author and University of Virginia Professor of English. From the description of Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1977-1994. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647847877 From the description of Papers of John Casey [manuscript], 1969-1993. (University of ...

Boffa, Alessandro

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Brandt, Carl Friedrich.

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Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994

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Peter Hillsman Taylor was a prize-winning American author, known for his stylish novels and short stories of the American South. Born in Tennessee, Taylor's family travelled throughout the South during his youth, and he credits these experiences with inspiring his later writing. He enrolled at Rhodes College, where Allen Tate urged him to transfer to Vanderbilt to study under John Crowe Ransom; he later followed Ransom to Kenyon College, along with Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. He garnered ...

Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988

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Nancy Hale was the granddaughter of Edward Everett Hale. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [between 1936 and 1963]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 180851425 American author. From the description of The sign of Jonah [manuscript], 1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647832561 Nancy Hale (b. 1908, d. 1988) was an author, whose books include Mary Cassatt (1975) and the Young Die Good (1932)...

Kalergis, Mary Motley.

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Conroy, Frank, 1936-2005

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Frank Conroy was born in 1936. He graduated from Haverford College in 1958. He taught at George Mason University, M.I.T., and Brandeis University before becoming director of the Writers' Workshop. In addition to the two works inventoried here, he has also published a collection of stories, Midair (1985) and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's, Partisan Review, and elsewhere. From the description of Frank Conroy manuscripts. (University of Iowa Libraries). W...

Vonnegut, Kurt

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Novelist. From the description of Papers, 1965-2002. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 259277264 From the description of Papers, 1941-2007. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 41182258 Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His writings include articles, short stories and scripts, but he is most well-known for his novels from his first, Player Piano in 1952, through Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five, to his last Timequake in 1997. Nanny Vo...