Eda Lou Walton papers, circa 1910-1960s

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Eda Lou Walton papers, circa 1910-1960s

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Manuscripts, photographs, clippings, course notes, correspondence, honors, and printed materials concerning her interest and activity in writing. Includes correspondence with Ben Belitt, Henry Roth, and others. Oversize folder contains degrees and certificates from the University of California (1918) and New York University (1955).

2 cartons and 1 oversize folder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8262557

California Digital Library

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Belitt, Ben, 1911-2003

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Poet. From the description of Reminiscences of Ben Belitt : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147329 American writer. From the description of Papers of Ben Belitt, 1967-1978. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959455 ...

Walton, Eda Lou, 1894-1961

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Roth, Henry, 1916-1999

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Henry Roth was born in Tysmenitz, located in what was then the Austro-Hungarian province of Galitzia, and brought to New York's Lower East Side in 1910. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1928, and his novel, Call it sleep (1934), was considered an important examination of Jewish-American life. He worked at various jobs unconnected with writing for almost fifty years, then began a six-volume "memoir-form novel," Mercy of a rude stream, in 1979, only four of which were completed an...