Sue McConkey papers, 1920-2001.

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Sue McConkey papers, 1920-2001.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767519988

This collection contains biographical material, including family photographs, and transcripts from interviews with McConkey. Other items include published articles about the writer and her work, material associated with the Poetry Fellowship of Maine, and chapbooks containing some of her poems. Also found in the collection is correspondence from McConkey addressed to the Maine Women Writers Collection curators and to Jeffrey Lee, a poet she mentored throughout the 1970's and 80's.

.5 linear ft.

University of New England, Jack S. Ketchum Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8175594

University of New England, Jack S. Ketchum Library

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McConkey, Sue, 1911-2001

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Poet who lived in Alfred, Me. From the description of Sue McConkey collection, 1970-1990. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 76817793 Born in 1911 in Littleton, New Hampshire, Lillian "Sue" Goldberg lived in the Conway area until her marriage to Thomas Wright McConkey in 1934. The two settled on a hilltop farm, Star Hill, in Alfred in 1947. McConkey did not start writing until she was about 40, when she was encouraged to try writing poetry, and attended ...