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Robert Hamburger (1943-), professor of creative writing and literature with a focus in civil rights, is the author of numerous books that cover a variety of genres from oral history and personal journalism to travel and memoir. The Robert Hamburger transcripts and research materials consist of interview transcripts, interview outlines, introductory essays, critiques, and research material that Robert Hamburger collected and produced for his books Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee, an Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights (1973) and A Stranger in the House (1978), a book about the lives of domestic workers working for white families in New York City; and other works, including "The Whitehall Hotel: A Community of Outcasts, a Proposal for an Oral History Project", "Castaways: or Last Chance Hotel", and "A Journal of the Plague Year". less