Barry Wallenstein - James T. Farrell collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0548

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The Barry Wallenstein - James T. Farrell collection comprises 0.6 linear feet of articles, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, and notes pertaining to Wallenstein's research on American novelist James T. Farrell and spans the dates between 1929 and 1975. The collection includes manuscripts by Farrell, copies of selected published writings by Farrell, four black-and-white photographs, copies of published articles about Farrell, and material contributing toward Wallenstein's writings about Farrell.

Dates

Creation: 1929-1975

Creator

Wallenstein, Barry (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce isrequired from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec

Barry Wallenstein

American literary scholar and poet Barry Wallenstein met American author James T. Farrell in the early 1960s when he co-edited, with author and editor Jack Salzman, an anthology of 1930s writings entitled Years of Protest (1967). Farrell was the initiator and advisor for this project. Wallenstein's other critical work includes volumes on Syliva Plath and poetic theory and criticism. Wallenstein has published several volumes of poetry, including Beast Is a Wolf With Brown Fire (1977); Roller Coaster Kid and Other Poems (1982); Love and Crush (1991); The Short Life of the Five Minute Dancer (1993); and A Measure of Conduct (1999) . He serves as an associate editor of The American Book Review and was a founding member of the Poetry Outreach Center at the City College of New York

James T. Farrell

Much of American novelist James T. Farrell's (1904-1979) fiction is set in his hometown of Chicago and addresses issues of the city's working class. Farrell published more than twenty-five novels during his lifetime, as well as numerous collections of stories and works of criticism. He is best known for his Studs Lonigan Trilogy (1935) and for a series of five novels centered around the character Danny O'Neill. Farrell was also active in contemporary politics and is generally associated with writers of the American left who emerged during the 1930s and 1940s. In his later years, Farrell devoted much of his writing to a cycle of novels titled A Universe of Time , which he began writing in the early 1960s and which he projected to include approximately thirty titles.

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 2006.