Richard S. Kennedy papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1949-2000.

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Richard S. Kennedy papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1949-2000.

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The papers include include correspondence, writings, research notes, subject files, and other items related to Richard S. Kennedy's life-long interest in novelist Thomas Wolfe. There is correspondence beginning in 1949, that includes letters from Elizabeth Nowell, Wolfe's agent and biographer; correspondence with Edward Aswell, Wolfe's editor and executor of his estate; a 1950 letter from Malcolm Cowley; a 1959 letter from Robert Penn Warren; and letters between Kennedy and others who knew the Wolfe. Some of those letter include personal accounts of the author. There are also letters between Kennedy and other Wolfe scholars, collectors, and researchers, and materials documenting Kennedy's involvement with the Thomas Wolfe Society and with author and collector Aldo P. Magi. Also included are letters and clippings related to Kennedy's role in "Wolfegate," a debate in the early 1980s about the role of the editor in Wolfe's posthumously published works. Writings include manuscript and typescript drafts of Kennedy's articles and books on Wolfe and photocopies of manuscript and archival materials. Kennedy's handwritten research notes appear on hundreds of index cards that are arranged by subject. There are also a few subject files that Kennedy maintained.

About 2500 items (4.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Kennedy, Richard S.

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Richard S. Kennedy was born in 1920. Kennedy's dissertation (Harvard University, 1953) on novelist Thomas Wolfe, the first to make use of Wolfe manuscripts in Harvard's Houghton Library and to examine Wolfe's literary career in depth, was published by UNC Press in 1962. Kennedy was on the faculty of the University of Rochester, 1950-1957; the University of Witchita, 1957-1964; and Temple University, 1964-1988, emeritus 1988-2002. He continued to work on Wolfe throughout his career, but also wrot...

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...

Aswell, Edward C. (Edward Campbell), 1900-1958

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Edward C. Aswell was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1900. After graduating from Harvard University in 1926, he joined the staff of the "Forum," and, in 1930, became assistant editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." In 1935, Aswell moved to Harper & Brothers as an assistant editor of general books, later becoming editor-in-chief. While assistant editor, Aswell persuaded Thomas Wolfe to sign with Harper & Brothers. Before Wolfe left on his trip through the western United States during which he acq...

Magi, Aldo P.

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Aldo P. Magi's interest in Thomas Wolfe began in 1957 when he read "The Letters of Thomas Wolfe." From this he read through Wolfe's fiction and the existing biographical works and began to develop the collection that would become a lifelong interest. Magi pursued his collection largely through a correspondence he maintained with librarians, scholars, and Thomas Wolfe's own friends and family. By the 1970s, Magi was an active participant in Thomas Wolfe scholarship. He was one of the founding mem...

Thomas Wolfe society

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Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina. He attended local Asheville schools, graduated from high school at age 15, and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a sophomore at UNC, one of his poems was published in the University of North Carolina Magazine and he became increasingly active in the Carolina Playmakers, a course in playwriting. His first play, entitled The Return of Buck Gavin, was produced by the Playmakers and starred Wolfe i...

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...

Nowell, Elizabeth.

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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

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American editor and writer. From the description of Letter to Matthew Bruccoli [manuscript], 1975 December 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812058 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1969. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810601 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874698 Malcolm Cowley was an influential liter...