Papers, ca. 1960-2009.

Yaddo (Artists' colony)

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Yaddo is an artists' retreat located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yaddo first began welcoming creative guests in 1926, but its roots extend back to the final decades of the 19th century. After the loss of their fourth child, Spencer and Katrina Trask decided to bequeath their baronial mansion and its surrounding grounds to future generations of creative men and women. Yaddo's guest list has included Newton Arvin, Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capot...

MacDowell (Peterborough, N.H.)

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MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell Colony (or simply "the Colony") but the Board of Directors voted to remove "Colony" from the name in an effort to remove "terminology with oppressive overtones". After Edward MacDowell died in 1908, Marian MacDowell established the artists' residency pr...

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, short story writer and playwright. Born in Harlem, he provided a literary voice during the period of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s. His first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953) is a partially autobiographical account of his youth. His other novels include "Giovanni's Room" (1956) and "Another Country" (1962), both concerned with homosexuality as a theme. Baldwin's highly personal and analytical essay collections, "Notes of a...

Meara, Jane

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Kennedy, William P. (William Paca), 1944-

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Free African-American tradesman of Henrico County, Va. From the description of Papers, 1853-1870. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 31276762 William Kennedy was a self-taught geologist who worked in the early development of the Texas oil industry. Kennedy was born in Scotland. He attended the University of Edinburgh for some period of time but did not receive a degree. While working in Nova Scotia as a banker he began a self-...

Theoharis, Theoharis Constantine.

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Mcmillan, Terry

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Popular writer Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951, to Madeline Washington Tillman and Edward McMillan. She grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, a city about sixty miles northeast of Detroit. Her parents divorced when McMillan was thirteen and her father died three years later. McMillan's mother supported her family by working nights at a factory.As a child, McMillan had little interest in literature, but she discovered the joy of reading as a teenager, while working at a library shelving bo...

Belton, Don

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Indiana University Assistant Professor Don Belton (1956-2009), who taught in the Creative Writing Program in the English Department from July 2008-December 2009. Professor Belton was born on August 7, 1956 to Charles and Dora Belton in Philadelphia, PA. Educated in the Philadelphia school system, his talents, gifts and potential won him a scholarship to William Penn Charter School. Belton earned a B.A. from Bennington College in 1981 and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins College in 1982. ...

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College

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Lethem, Jonathan.

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Achebe, Chinua

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Chinua Achebe (1930- ) is a Nigerian writer and scholar. From the description of Chinua Achebe papers, ca. 1963-1993. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612699273 Chinua Achebe (1930- ) is a Nigerian writer and scholar. He became well known after his first novel Things fall apart (1958), which depicted the encounter of the Igbo people of Nigeria with the British colonial power. His subsequent novels and short stories are likewise set in West Africa. Achebe's poetry wa...

Turner, Paule

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Gates, Henry Louis

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