Found 74 collections related to Manuscripts

Maya Angelou Papers consist of original manuscripts, computer generated typescripts, galleys and proofs including "I Know why the Caged Bird Sings," "Hallelujah the Welcome Table," "Cookbook," "I Shall Not Be Moved," "A Song Flung Up to Heaven," "Heart of a Woman," and "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes," as well as manuscripts for unpublished work and dozens of poems. Of interest is a voluminous file on Angelou's inaugural poem "On The Pulse of Morning" from creation to public reaction. There is also personal and professional correspondence with James Baldwin, Dudley Randall, Hoyt Fuller, Chester Himes, Mari Evans, Rosa Guy, and Malcolm X, Gordon Parks, jazz singer Abby Lincoln, Sarah Wright, Frank Marshall Davis, and her editors among others. less

Organized into 11 series: Series 1: Works by Laura Riding Jackson; Series 2: Correspondence; Series 3: Diaries; Series 4: Book reviews of Laura Riding Jackson’s works; Series 5: Criticism of Laura Riding Jackson’s works; Series 6: Photographs; Series 7: Documents; Series 8: Awards, bibliographies obituaries; Series 9: Ephemera; Series 10: Clippings; Series 11: Writings by others. less

In 1995, Philip Levine received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for The Simple Truth) ; over the course of his career he has also won three National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, two Guggenheim fellowships in poetry, the Award of Merit from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the American Book Award, the Frank O'Hara Memorial Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He has taught at Fresno State University, New York University, Tufts University, and Vanderbilt University. He has been a visiting writer at the University of Cincinnati, Princeton University, Columbia University, Vassar College, Brown University, the University of Alabama, and the University of California, Berkeley, and also served as writer in residence at the National University of Australia at Canberra. In 2011, he was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. less

The Piri Thomas Papers document several areas of Thomas' professional activities including his writings and his work with and involvement in social justice organizations from 1957 to 1982. The collection consists primarily of manuscripts for his books, films and plays, in addition to correspondence with and files on a variety of organizations focusing on artistic, social justice and educational issues. less

The Melvin Dixon papers consist primarily of manuscripts, correspondence, notes, and journals reflecting his experiences as a black gay writer. Most of the collection is comprised of manuscript drafts of Dixon's published works "Trouble the Water," "Vanishing Rooms," "Ride Out the Wilderness," "Change of Territory," as well as drafts for incomplete novels and stories, the fiction he called "works in progress," and short stories, poetry and plays, both published and unpublished. In addition, there are drafts and other material for Dixon's translations of "The Collected Poetry by Leopold Sedar Senghor," Genevieve Fabre's "Drumbeats, Masks and Metaphors," and works by the Haitian writer Jacques Roumain. Some essays and academic papers he presented are also included in collection. less

Annie Proulx is a novelist, short fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1935, to Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, a painter and amateur naturalist, and George N. Proulx, the vice-president of a textile mill. Her first collection of short fiction, Heart Songs and Other Stories, was published in 1988. In 1990, she completed her debut novel, Postcards, for which she won the 1993 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her second novel, The Shipping News, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Heartland Award for Fiction. Accordion Crimes, her third novel, was published in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 1998, her story “Brokeback Mountain” won the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker Award for fiction, and the O. Henry Prize. It was adapted, in 2005, for a Paramount Pictures film by Larry McMurtry and Dianna Ossana, and was directed by Ang Lee. Her second collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, was published in 1999; the lead story, “The Half-Skinned Steer,” was selected by John Updike for the Best American Stories of the Century (1999). In 2000, Proulx’s short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories won The New Yorker Award for fiction. Her fourth novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, was published in 2002. This was followed by two collections of short stories: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2008). In 2008, she also published and edited Red Desert: A History of a Place, a collection of 38 essays of which she wrote 10. Bird Cloud: A Memoir, was published in 2011, and is named for the painstakingly designed and hand-crafted home she had built for herself in Wyoming, on a 640-acre nature preserve through which runs the North Platte River. Organized into 23 series: Series 1: Writings by Annie Proulx ; Series 2: Artwork by Annie Proulx ; Series 3: Correspondence ; Series 4: Research ; Series 5: Other Projects Series 6: Works by Others ; Series 7: Photographs ; Series 8: Genealogical Papers ; Series 9: Personal Records ; Series 10: Address Books and Monthly Planners ; Series 11: Ephemera ; Series 12: Material related to the estate of Lois Gill Proulx ; Series 13: Publisher’s Artwork and Promotional Material ; Series 14: Material Related to Scheduled Literary Events ; Series 15: Awards ; Series 16: Property Records ; Series 17: Publishing and Other Contracts ; Series 18: Miscellaneous Printed ; Series 19: Electronic Records ; Series 20: Audio Cassettes, VHS, DVDs, CDs ; Series 21: Restricted Material ; Series 22: Realia ; Series 23: Financial Papers. less

Julie Mathilde Lippman (1864-1952) was an author of novels and plays and a political activist, who knew many of the prominent literary and political figures of her day. Best known for her novel MARTHA-BY-THE-DAY (1914) which she successfully adapted to the stage in 1919, Julie Mathilde Lippman came to know Louisa May Alcott while still a teenager, and later became friends with Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, actor and playwright William Gillette, and other writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among Lippman's books were SWEET P'S (1905), MARTHA AND CUPID (1914), and FLEXIBLE FERDINAND (1919), while her works for the stage included COUSIN FAITHFUL (1908), THE FACTS IN THE CASE (1912), and A FOOL AND HIS MONEY (1913). Lippmann was a fervent supporter of Theodore Roosevelt, took part in the womens' suffrage movement, and also wrote propaganda for the Allied cause during the First World War. After many years of residence in New York City Julie Mathilde Lippman moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of eighty-five, to live with her niece, and died in that city three years later. Typed manuscript, called "AUNTIE" : REMINISCENCES OF JULIE M. LIPPMANN on title page, undated but written after Julie Mathilde Lippmann's death in 1952, with occasional corrections in blue ink in the author's hand. Memoir written by Julie Morrow DeForest (1882-1979), an artist and niece of Julie Mathilde Lippmann, who records personal impressions of her aunt as well as several other relatives, but provides little specific information about her aunt's literary or theatrical career, or her famous friends. Of special note is the author's description of a women's suffrage march and related activities in New York circa 1915. less

The Beeks family papers consist mainly of personal correspondence. Also included are manuscripts, a commonplace book, a few photographs, and other personal miscellany. The bulk of the material dates between 1899-1928, and includes a letterpress copybook documenting the law practice of James Beeks between 1899-1901; correspondence written to his wife, Sarah Jane Brackinridge Beeks during his business trip to Cuba in 1902; and the correspondence of his eldest son, Edward Beeks, while living in Shanghai from 1911-1928. Other correspondents include Beeks' children McCary W. Beeks, Gertrude Beeks Easley, Helen Beeks Lounsbury, and various members of the extended family less

The André Emile Begeleus Literary Collection (1967-1974) consists of unedited handwritten and typescript drafts of poems, essays, short stories and a short novel. His writings express his views about the survival of African Americans in the 1970s. Eight of his handwritten poems were published in his volume of poetry. less

Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. Biographical information about Hughes' life and activities. Hughes' writings form the largest series in the collection and consist of manuscripts, typescripts, and drafts of books, including NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER, FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGROES, and FIRST BOOK OF JAZZ; plays; poems; short stories; songs; and reviews of some of his published works. Material relating to programs, activities, and events in which Hughes participated or was the subject including memorial tributes, personal appearances, radio broadcasts, recordings, speeches, and television broadcasts. Papers related to programs which incorporated a presentation of Hughes' works consisting of news clippings, printed programs, and leaflets announcing or describing the programs. Also, general criticism of Hughes as a writer, and some information on sources of Hughes' material in other institutions in the United States. less

Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer. The Kenneth Koch papers document the personal and professional activities of the writer, Kenneth Koch. Holograph and typescript drafts comprise the bulk of the collection. The papers contain holograph manuscripts and typescripts of the author's published and unpublished work (in every genre, including plays, "comics," and games), notes and other material related to the works, Koch's correspondence, photographs, collaborations, material related to his work with children, miscellaneous personal documents, printed material, ephemera, scrapbooks, press cuttings and photocopied reviews of his books, and holograph manuscripts and typescripts of works by other writers (especially Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery). Also included in the papers are 9 boxes of unsorted printed ephemera, and 3 boxes of journals, magazines, and newspapers. The correspondence in the collection is mostly made up of incoming material, of which there are three categories: personal, professional, and fan mail. The personal and professional correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author; within each author's folder letters are arranged by date. Of the personal correspondence and works by others, the most substantial holdings are by "New York School" artists such as Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Larry Rivers, Harry Mathews, Fairfield Porter, and Jane Freilicher. Also noteworthy are letters and works by Koch's former students, Ron Padgett, Frank Lima, Tony Towle, David Shapiro, and Jordan Davis. Also present are publishing contracts and royalty statements for several of Koch's books. less

During the 1950s and 1960s, John Kardoss, an author and journalist affiliated with The Sun of Sydney, Australia, wrote about world theater. The John Kardoss papers consist primarily of his undated manuscript draft of A Short History of Korean Theatre, in two parts with bibliography, in addition to a small collection of correspondence dating from Kardoss' career in Sydney, Australia, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The book on Korean theater appears not to have been published, but presumably served as the basis for Kardoss' lecture on the history of Korean Drama delivered at C. W. Post College of Long Island University in December 1966. less

Born in Barbados, Errold Collymore immigrated to the United States in 1912 and graduated from Howard University's dental school eleven years later. His subsequent struggle to rent an office in White Plains, New York compelled him into a life of civil rights activism which saw him organize a local NAACP chapter and become chairman of Westchester County's United Colored Republican Clubs. He was also involved with the YMCA and served on a number of committees concerned with housing equality and standards for Westchester County's black residents. Attending to equality in the religious realm as well, Collymore and his family integrated the American Unitarian Association's White Plains Community Church when they joined its congregation in 1927. Correspondence, reports, speeches, minutes, notes, clippings and other material documenting Collymore's activities at the vanguard of civil rights in Westchester County, New York. There are files for all of the major organizations that Collymore was associated and held office with, among them: NAACP (White Plains Branch), including the nation-wide anti-lynching campaign that he worked on; the Colored Republicans Committee containing information on Black Republican activities and politics in Westchester County; the YMCA-White Plains; and American Unitarian Association (which he and his family integrated in 1927 when they joined the White Plains congregation). There are also correspondence and miscellaneous documents that provide a glimpse into his personal and professional lives. less

Claude McKay, born in Jamaica, is known as one of the major artists of the Harlem Renaissance, and authored several published and unpublished poems and novels. The Claude McKay Collection (additions) consists of correspondence, manuscripts and galley, and related printed material. The correspondence is mostly letters from McKay to Simon Williamson which trace the development of their friendship and its dissolution, and letters to Ruth Raphael that discuss McKay's health, writings and conversion to Catholicism. The general correspondence folder contains letters about "Bambara" magazine, a literary endeavor proposed during the Harlem Renaissance. Manuscripts include a poem by McKay, with editorial notes, entitled "Note to Harlem", along with a corrected typescript of "My Greenhills of Jamaica," and the galley for book, "Selected Poems of Claude McKay" published after his death. The news clippings are mostly obituaries and matters relating to the distribution of his literary papers. less

Chiefly comprised of two notebooks (ms., ink). The first is entitled "Lecture on radium" by Loie Fuller (59 leaves); also includes a draft letter to a friend (20 p. at end of vol.), signed and dated Jan. 24, 1911, including mention of the success of Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky in Paris. The second contains a draft of the lecture on radium (25 leaves) and extensive notes (25 leaves) about visiting Thomas Edison in his laboratory, light, phosphorescence, radium, Madame Curie's discovery of radioactive matter, stage lighting, the work of the English scientist William Crookes, barefoot dancing, the problem of deformed feet, etc., 1911. less

The Emmett Grogan Papers is an archive of manuscripts and typescripts, comprising, articles, manifestos, screenplays, ideas for films, short stories, and poems by Emmett Grogan, accompanied by a group of similar writings by him and others that appeared in The Digger Papersa collective publication published by the Diggersboth parts of the archive spanning the years 1965-1968. Grogans papers document his journey from a young writer, aspiring filmmaker, and actor with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, to his central role, with Peter Berg, as the Diggers leading theoretician and activist. The archive contains early writings by Grogan from his time in Rome, Dublin, and London, and includes several of his most important Digger manifestos, some of them written with his boyhood friend and fellow New Yorker, Billy Murcott. Much of it bears his autograph annotations and corrections. less

The Richard John Levy and Sally Waldman Sweet Collection contains letters and documents signed by prominent political figures, military leaders, authors and scientists. The date span of the collection is from 1766-1935. Notable individuals include Susan B. Anthony, RobertBrowning, Henry Clay, Charles Darwin, George Gissing, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, James Monroe, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Daniel Webster and Woodrow Wilson. less

Author, poet. Born in Jamaica. Correspondence and manuscripts of McKay's works, both published and unpublished, including "Banjo," "Banana Bottom," "Harlem Glory," and "Romance in Marseilles." Included are letters with Max Eastman, from Louise Bryant, Arrack Johns, director of the Federal Writers' Project, and to Carl Van Vechten, 1941. less

Elizabeth Swados was a composer, musician, theatre director, writer, poet, and illustrator. Her papers date from 1972 to 2016 and consist of files related to Swados' professional life, chronicling all facets of her career and creative work. The collection comprises manuscript materials, scores, memorabilia, research materials, audio and video recordings, and notebooks of poetry, sketches, and stories. less

Joan Murray (1937- ) was the first African American female television news reporter in the United States, as well as an entrepreneur, small plane pilot, and writer. The Joan Murray papers detail her career in media and marketing; her personal life; and the various projects and business endeavors she pursued throughout her life. less

Liljan Espenak (1905-1988) was a dancer, instructor, dance therapist and author. Espenak was born in Norway. During the 1920s, she moved to Berlin to study under Mary Wigman. Espenak established her own dance school in Berlin. In the 1930s, Espenak left Germany due to pressure from the Nazis to become a collaborative artist. Espenak eventually established herself in the United States and resumed her career. She opened a dance studio and developed a second career as a dance therapist in New York City. The collection spans her multiple careers. The files, 1920s-1988, contain correspondence from family, friends, and colleagues. less