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{"value"=>"1931-2008", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1931/2008"}
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{"value"=>"Ted Solotaroff papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Ted Solotaroff was an American editor, literary critic, and writer. He founded the influential literary magazine <span class=\"title\">New American Review</span> (later <span class=\"title\">American Review</span>) and was an editor at <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span>, <span class=\"title\">Book Week</span>, and a senior editor at Harper & Row (later HarperCollins). This collection contains professional and personal correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of Solotaroff's writings, typescripts of other authors, family correspondence and memorabilia, and photographs. The papers document Solotaroff's career from his college essays, written in the 1950s, through his later writings in the 1990s and 2000s."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Ted Solotaroff Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Solotaroff, Ted, 1928-2008", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Ted Solotaroff was an American editor, literary critic, and writer. He founded the influential literary magazine <span class=\"title\">New American Review</span> (later <span class=\"title\">American Review</span>) and was an editor at <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span>, <span class=\"title\">Book Week</span>, and a senior editor at Harper & Row (later HarperCollins). His work has been published in <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span>, <span class=\"title\">Partisan Review</span>, <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, T<span class=\"title\">he New York Times Book Review</span>, <span class=\"title\">Esquire</span>, <span class=\"title\">The New Republic</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Nation</span>.</p> <p>Solotaroff was born in 1928 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, served in the United States Navy between 1946 and 1948, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1952, and received his Master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1956. Between 1956 and 1960 he did further graduate work there and taught English there and at Indiana University.</p> <p>In 1957 Solotaroff met Philip Roth, when they were both Ph.D. students at Chicago. The two quickly became friends and Roth helped begin Solotaroff's career by recommending him to the editor of <span class=\"title\">The Times Literary Supplement</span> to write an essay on American Jewish writers. The essay was seen by Norman Podhoretz, the editor of <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span>, who hired him as an associate editor at the magazine in 1960. Solotaroff worked at <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span> until 1966. For the next nine months he was the editor-in-chief of <span class=\"title\">Book Week</span>, the literary supplement of the <span class=\"title\">New York Herald Tribune</span>.</p> <p>In 1967 Solotaroff founded the <span class=\"title\">New American Review</span> (NAR), a paperback literary magazine published by the New American Library. According to Solotaroff, NAR would avoid \"the tendency toward cult and coterie by which literary magazines usually define their particular territory and assert their standards.\" NAR was a literary journal produced as a paperback and proclaimed itself \"a writer's magazine for the new literary audience.\" The first issue contained the work of 29 writers, including Roth, William H. Gass, Grace Paley, George Dennison, and Robert Graves. NAR was issued three times a year and contained fiction and nonfiction. <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span> obituary for Solotaroff described NAR as \"less a magazine with recognizable departments and columnists than a rolling literary anthology.\" Other writers published in NAR include Russell Banks, E. L. Doctorow, Ralph Ellison, Gnter Grass, Ian McEwan (including his first story published in the United States), Norman Mailer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cynthia Ozick, V. S. Pritchett, Tom Robbins, Susan Sontag, and Gilbert Sorrentino. NAR never prospered as Solotaroff hoped it would and, in 1970, New American Library stopped publishing it. Solotaroff brought NAR to Simon & Schuster and then Bantam Books, where the name changed to <span class=\"title\">American Review</span> (AR) in 1973. AR continued to struggle financially and ceased publication in 1977.</p> <p>Between 1970 and 1979, in addition to publishing NAR, Solotaroff worked as an acquiring editor at Bantam Books, where he worked with Mailer, Robbins, and many others. He moved to Harper & Row in 1979 and became a senior editor. There he worked with Yehuda Amichai, Max Apple, Banks, Robert Bly, Hayden Carruth, Bobbie Ann Mason, Sue Miller, Robert Towers, and others.</p> <p>In 1989 Solotaroff retired as a senior editor to concentrate on his own writing. He continued to work part-time, retiring fully from HarperCollins in 1991. He published his first memoir, <span class=\"title\">Truth Comes in Blows</span>, in 1998 and his second, <span class=\"title\">First Loves</span>, in 2003. He was working on his third memoir at the time of his death in 2008.</p> <p>Solotaroff was married four times and had four sons. His sons Paul and Ivan were born to his first wife, Lynn Ringler, his son Jason to his second wife, Shirley Fingerhood, and his son Isaac to his third wife, Ghislaine Boulanger. He was married to his fourth wife, Virginia Heiserman at the time of his death.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Ted Solotaroff Papers contain professional and personal correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys of his writings, typescripts of other authors, family correspondence and memorabilia, and other material. The collection documents Solotaroff's career from his college essays, written in the 1950s, through his later writings in the 1990s and 2000s.</p> <p>Most of Solotaroff's professional career is documented in this collection, from his college essays, his first published reviews and essays on American Jewish writers and writing for a living, his articles on the publishing culture in America, to his memoirs. The correspondence chronicles Solotaroff's fifty year friendship with Philip Roth, his influence on young writers including Tom Robbins and Ian McEwan, and his professional career as an editor at Harper & Row. Also included in this collection are Solotaroff's unpublished short fiction and novel, his unfinished thesis on Henry James' <span class=\"title\">The Bostonians</span>, and condolence letters to Solotaroff at the demise of <span class=\"title\">American Review</span>.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Ted Solotaroff papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18153#c40077'>Series I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1958-2008, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>12.5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The correspondence series is divided into three subseries: correspondence highlights, general correspondence, and subject correspondence. The correspondence highlights subseries contains correspondence with notable writers and editors including Russell Banks, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, George Dennison, E. L. Doctorow, Ian McEwan, Sue Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Tom Robbins, and Philip Roth. Solotaroff maintained most of his correspondence in chronological order by year and alphabetical order within that. Some correspondence was arranged by subject, mainly about his writings, but some pertains to grant applications for himself and others, lectures and courses he taught, fan letters he received, and other topics.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18153#c40266'>Series II. Family memorabilia and research</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1931-1933, 1960, 1966-1988, 1992, 1996-1998, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.25 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains family correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, research materials used by Solotaroff in his first memoir, <span class=\"title\">Truth Comes in Blows</span>, and writings by his sons and brother.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18153#c40280'>Series III. Notebooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1952, 1966-1968, 1978-1982, 1988, 1991, 2003, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.5 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains Solotaroff's notebooks, which contain diary entries and drafts and notes for articles. The diary portions contain entries about Solotaroff's daily life, interactions with his family, his relationships with women, and other topics.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18153#c40284'>Series IV. Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1949-2006, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>9.75 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains drafts, typescripts, and galleys of Solotaroff's writings and typescripts and other copies of works by other authors. The series is divided into articles, books, and essays; fiction; poetry; reviews; speeches by Solotaroff; and writings by other people. This series contains Solotaroff's unfinished thesis on <span class=\"title\">The Bostonians</span> by Henry James, his college essays, drafts and typescripts of most of his published pieces, short fiction, and an unpublished novel by Solotaroff. These files also contain correspondence about Solotaroff's work, including responses by friends and colleagues, contracts, and other professional correspondence.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18153#c40426'>Series V. Miscellaneous</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1970?, 1979, 1990?, 2003, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains Solotaroff's bibliographies, curricula vitae, and the Lucille J. Medwick Memorial Award he received from PEN in 1979.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Ted Solotaroff Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I. Correspondence, 1958-2008, n.d.</li> <li>Series II. Family memorabilia and research, 1931-1933, 1960, 1966-1988, 1992, 1996-1998, n.d.</li> <li>Series III. Notebooks, 1952, 1966-1968, 1978-1982, 1988, 1991, 2003, n.d.</li> <li>Series IV. Writings, 1949-2006, n.d.</li> <li>Series V. Miscellaneous, 1970?, 1979, 1990?, 2003, n.d.</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., May 2009</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Ted Solotaroff Estate retains copyright. Permission to publish material from this collection must be requested from the representative of the Estate.</p>"}
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1931
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2008
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1931
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Megan O'Shea.</p>"}
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9.8 linear feet (24 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
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1931
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2008