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Novelists

 Subject
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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Summer Brenner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0617
Abstract

The Summer Brenner papers offers a comprehensive view of an American poet and novelist's life across four decades beginning in the 1960s. The collection includes extensive personal correspondence and journals, literary manuscripts and drafts documenting all stages of the writing and publishing process, and Brenner's work from magazine contributions, book publications, and community projects.

Dates: 1962-2005
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Alan Brilliant correspondence with Ted Wilentz

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0590
Abstract

This collection contains .7 linear feet of personal letters and postcards from Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press to his former employer and longtime friend, proprietor of Corinth Books Ted Wilentz. Other materials include press catalogs, newsletters, financial records, clippings, periodicals, poems, and other printed ephemera related to the Unicorn Press.

Dates: 1960-1996; Majority of material found within 1986-1988
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

William Claire collection related to James T. Farrell

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0935
Abstract

American writer and educator Edgar M. Branch wrote to the editor of the literary magazine Voyages William Claire to request a recent issue, in which the first chapter of James T. Farrell's unpublished novel The Vast Present appeared.

Dates: 1969
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Samuel R. Delany collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0618
Abstract

The Samuel R. Delany collection includes Delany's letters to publisher Bill Bamberger (Bamberger Books), manuscript drafts of novels in progress, comic books, science fiction anthologies, and journals of fantasy and science fiction to which Delany contributed or served as editor.

Dates: 1967-1999
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Robert Hichens letter to Mrs. Fitzgerald Mann

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0820
Abstract

One letter handwritten from English writer Robert Hichens to Mrs. Fitzgerald Mann.

Dates: 1911 October 29
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Charles Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0143
Abstract

The Charles Johnson papers consist of the letters and manuscripts written by American novelist and teacher Charles Johnson and sent to his former professor John Gardner. The seven manuscripts are drafts and outlines towards Johnson's publications, The Devil and Jubilee Tuthill, Oxherding Tale, and Faith and the Good Thing.

Dates: 1973-1976
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Alan Kaufman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0599
Abstract The papers of Alan Kaufman--an American Jewish author, editor, performer, artist, and impresario--include drafts of his memoir Jew Boy, his novel Matches, editorial material related to volumes in his Outlaw Bible series, and the magazine Davka: Jewish Cultural Revolution. There are numerous notebooks with notes, observations, lists, and drafts of poetry and writing, as well as original...
Dates: circa 19th century, 1952-2007; Majority of material found within 1952-2007
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Richard McCann papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0616
Abstract The Richard McCann papers document the personal life and professional career of this American author, poet, and educator. The collection includes McCann's early creative writing; teaching materials; reviews, essays, and critical writing; personal and professional correspondence; and extensive drafts of McCann's poetry and fiction. McCann's fiction has autobiographical roots, often drawn from family relationships and personal experiences, as illustrated in photographs and family memorabilia...
Dates: 1920s-2008; Majority of material found within 1978-2005
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Charles Morgan letter to George

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0762
Abstract

One autograph letter written by Charles Morgan to "George" on printed letterhead of 16 Campden Hill Square, W.8., concerning Morgan's work in progress and his desire to keep references about his play being bought away from speculation, on December 6, 1937.

Dates: 1937 December 6
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Hubert Selby, Jr., letters to John S. Friedman

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F1042
Abstract

The collection comprises eleven letters from Hubert Selby, Jr., to journalist and friend John S. Friedman which include an autobiographical statement by Selby as well as a typed draft of a short story entitled, “A Little Respect.”

Dates: 1973-1981
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Carl Van Vechten photograph portrait of William Demby

 Collection
Identifier: GRA 0099-F0038
Abstract

Black-and-white photograph portrait of novelist and film translator William Demby (1922-2013) taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York on March 13, 1956.

Dates: 1956 March 13
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Angus Wilson letter to Sandra Kent

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0885
Abstract

British author and playwright Sir Angus Wilson (1913-1991) wrote this eight-page letter to Leceister University undergraduate Sandra Kent in response to her letter regarding her dissertation about Wilson's novels.

Dates: 1969 February 20
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Douglas Woolf papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0429
Abstract The Douglas Woolf papers represent the literary life work of this American novelist and short story writer. Spanning the dates 1922 to 1997 (bulk dates 1944-1992), the collection comprises 21 linear feet of autograph and typescript drafts of Woolf’s novels, short stories, and poems; as well as the author’s personal papers, correspondence files, files related to Wolf Run Books, and printed material. The final segment of the collection is a group of papers related to Woolf’s second wife and...
Dates: 1922-1997; Majority of material found within 1944-1992
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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