Charles Andrews Fenton papers, 1954-1960 (inclusive).

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Charles Andrews Fenton papers, 1954-1960 (inclusive).

The papers consist almost entirely of bibliographical material, newspaper magazine articles, excerpts from books and news dispatches collected for his proposed work on American literary approaches to the Spanish Civil War. There is also a small amount of correspondence (1954-1960). Important correspondents are Daniel Aaron, Claude G. Bowers, Granville Hicks, Rolfe Humphries, Mark Schorer and F. Jay Taylor.

8 linear ft. (17 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8022330

Yale University Library

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Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982

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Hicks was a literary critic, novelist and teacher (1901-1982). He graduated from Harvard University, studied for the ministry and joined the Communist Party in 1934. He was the literary editor of the New masses and applied Marxist criticism to American literature in his writings. He broke with the Party in 1939 and in the 1950s testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities against the Party. Arvin (1900-1963) was also educated at Harvard University and taught at Smith College fr...

Aaron, Daniel, 1912-....

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Daniel Aaron was born in Chicago in 1912. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1933 and received his doctorate in 1943 from Harvard University. Aaron's first teaching position was at Harvard, where he lectured from 1936-1939 in the Department of English. In 1939, Aaron joined the Smith faculty. During his time at Smith, Aaron travelled as a visiting lecturer to the Guggenheim (1947), Bennington College (1950-51), the University of Helsinki (1951-52), Amherst College (1954-55), the Uni...

Humphries, Rolfe.

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Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969) was an American poet, translator, teacher, critic, and editor. According to Richard Gillman, author of Poets, Poetics, and Politics: America's Literary Community Viewed from the Letters of Rolfe Humphries, 1910–1969, Humphries was "the total poet. . . . If ever there were poets who did in fact breathe their art, he was one of them." From the guide to the Rolfe Humphries Papers, 1962-1963, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)...

Fenton, Charles A.

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Charles A. Fenton, author and educator, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1919. He is the author of The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway: The Early Years (1954) and Stephen Vincent Benét: The Life and Times of an American Man of Letters (1958). He also edited The Best Short Stories of World War II: An American Anthology (1957) and Selected Letters of Stephen Vincent Benét (1960). He taught English at Yale from 1948 to 1958, and at Duke University from 1958 until his death in 1960. ...

Taylor, F. Jay (Foster Jay), 1923-2011

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Schorer, Mark, 1908-1977

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Biographer and author. From the description of Sinclair Lewis : an American life : manuscript, circa 1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132010 Schorer was an English professor at U.C.B. From the description of Mark Schorer papers. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 743388731 American author. From the description of Sinclair Lewis: an American life, typescript, 1961. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat rec...

Bowers, Claude Gernade, 1879-1958

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Bowers was an American historian and columnist, editorial writer for the New York World from 1923-1931. From the description of Claude Gernade Bowers letter : to E.H. Woodruff, 1929 Sept. 10. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936742 Claude G. Bowers was a noted author, historian, and U.S. ambassador. From the description of Letters, 1954. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 21126171 Ambassador. From the...