{"value"=>"<p>This series contains copies of Kantrowitz's writing in all genres from his student years through the 2000s. Included are college and graduate school examinations and papers, pieces written for the college newspaper, extensive files of poetry, public service announcements and advertising copy written for WNEW-TV, theater reviews for <span class=\"title\">Show Business</span>, and notes for speeches as well as drafts, typescripts, and published copies of his better-known essays and his two full-length published works, his autobiography, <span class=\"title\">Under the Rainbow</span>, and a Walt Whitman biography. Files in this series are arranged by subject or title.</p> <p>Files containing notes, drafts, proofs, and typescripts of the 1970s and the 1996 editions of Kantrowitz’s autobiography, <span class=\"title\">Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Ga</span>y can be found in boxes 20 through 22 and in box 49. Files in box 49 document revisions, additions and expansions to chapters, in memoriam, foreword, and afterword sections.</p> <p>Files on Kantrowitz’s various projects pertaining to Walt Whitman are included in this series. Many notes, drafts, and revisions for an unpublished novel inspired by Walt Whitman, <span class=\"title\">The Poet of the Bod</span>y (also called <span class=\"title\">Song of Myself</span>), can be found in boxes 23 through 27 and box 50. Typescripts and notes pertaining to <span class=\"title\">Walt Whitman</span>, a biography written for the <span class=\"title\">Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians Series</span> (published by Chelsea House) can be found in box 50 as can documents relating to an encyclopedia entry on Whitman written by Kantrowitz.</p> <p>The series also contains issues of <span class=\"title\">Gotham</span>, a short-lived magazine for which Kantrowitz acted as managing editor, and a few typescripts and photocopies of scholarly articles, and other writing not by Kantrowitz but sent to him by the authors. Also included is an unpublished collection of his essays, <span class=\"title\">Stonewall's Children</span>.</p>"}