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Creator
Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Kazin
Physical description
1,207 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, journals kept from 1933 to 1990, and portrait photographs.

Biographical/historical information

Alfred Kazin was an American essayist, literary critic, and historian.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, journals kept from 1933 to 1990, and portrait photographs. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, drafts of novels, essays, short stories, and notes for work by the author, as well as excerpts from a transcript containing the testimony of Alfred Kazin and Malcolm Cowley in a case against Grove Press, Inc. The correspondence, dating from [1962] to 1978 includes letters from the author to Herbert Gold, Harry Levin, Muriel Rukeyser, and Louis Untermeyer. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1941 to 1980, between various correspondents, including Carson McCullers, Herbert Mitgang, John Dos Passos, and others. There are letters to Kazin from Hannah Arendt, Atlantic Monthly Press, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Burnshaw, Truman Capote, Peter Davison, Lucy Dawidowicz, David Leo Diamond, Leon Edel, George P. Elliott, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, Robert Flint, Herbert Gold, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., Josephine Herbst, Edward Hoagland, Irving Howe, Randall Jarrell, Howard Jones, Jack Kerouac, Elinor Langer, Bernard Malamud, Francis O. Matthiessen, Carson McCullers, Herbert Mitgang, Lewis Mumford, Sylvia Plath, Laura Riding, Harold Rosenberg, Isaac Rosenfeld, Philip Roth, Upton Sinclair, Francis Steegmuller, John Updike, Mark Van Doren, John Wain, Eudora Welty, Edmund Wilson, Jose Yglesias, and others, dating from 1937 to 1990.

The Alfred Kazin collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

Alternative form available

Journals : 1933-1990 ; Journal, holograph and typescrpt : 1988-89. Available in microfilm as part of the Alfred Kazin collection of papers; service copy classmark: *Z-10371