Alan Dugan papers, 1861-2003.

ArchivalResource

Alan Dugan papers, 1861-2003.

The collection contains the personal and literary papers of Alan Dugan from 1937-2002, including correspondence, scrapbooks, financial records, writings, printed material, writings by others, photographs and audio recordings. Of particular note is correspondence between Dugan and his wife Judith Shahn, as well as significant correspondence between Dugan and poet Frank Stanford.

19 linear ft. (19 boxes)

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Shahn, Judith, 1929-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67w88zv (person)

Stanford, Frank, 1949-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xs6fd5 (person)

Frank Stanford was born on August 1, 1948 in southeast Mississippi. Beginning in 1967, he studied at the University of Arkansas, where he became involved in the Fayetteville literary community. Stanford's published volumes of poetry include: The Singing Knives (1971), Ladies from Hell (1974), Field Talk (1975), Constant Stranger (1976), and The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (1977). In 1976, he founded the independent press Lost Roads Publishers, which went on to publish twelve title...

Dugan, Alan.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc0xsm (person)

Alan Dugan (1923-2003), award-winning poet and educator, was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his childhood in Queens. Dugan was drafted into the Air Force during World War II and served as a mechanic for B-52s in the Pacific theater. After the war, Dugan enrolled in Olivet College in Manhattan where he met his future wife, artist Judith Shahn. Eventually, Dugan and Shahn dropped out of Olivet in protest of the firing of a professor and moved to Mexico City. Dugan graduated from Mexi...