Found 12 collections related to Authors.

The Hugh Fordin collection, dated 1908 to 2005, documents the career of writer and record producer Hugh Fordin (1935-2019). The collection primarily chronicles his research for Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II(1977) and The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals (1975). less

William Edmund Aughinbaugh (1870-1940) was a widely-travelled American lawyer, physician, author, and expert on foreign trade. He was the Foreign and Export editor of the New York Commercial. The collection consists of papers from Aughinbaugh's editorial work relating to natural resources in South American countries, American trade with Latin America, and other topics, 1921-1923. The collection also contains Aughinbaugh's correspondence and documents relating to the East Coast Fisheries Company and its financial failure, 1919-1922. less

The Agnes de Mille photographs, dating from the 1860s to the 1980s, chronicle her professional career as a dancer, choreographer, director, writer, and arts advocate. The photographs also recount de Mille's personal life and the members of the de Mille, George, Prude, and Foy families. less

The W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman letters to Irving and Anne Weiss, dating from the 1940s to 2000, consist primarily of handwritten and typed letters and poems, as well as photographs exchanged between the couples from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection also contains some posthumous newspaper clippings, dating from the 1970s to 2000, about Auden and Kallman's relationship. less

Eric Marcus is an author of non-fiction, public speaker, and television news producer noted for his use of interviews and oral histories to document the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States. The bulk of the Eric Marcus papers date from 1983 to 2002 and contain research files, interview transcripts, sound and video recordings, typescripts, photographs, correspondence, news clippings, galleys, and scripts of public speaking engagements. less

Jonathan Ned Katz (1938 - ) is an independent historian, author, LGBTQ rights advocate, teacher, and textile designer. His father, Bernard Katz (1901-1970), an artist and designer who worked in advertising, was an independent historian of African-American history and jazz music. Jonathan Katz's mother, Phyllis Brownstone Katz, was a magazine editor and co-founder of the Jane Street Community Garden. The Jonathan Ned Katz papers reflect his life and career as an historian, author, LGBTQ rights advocate, teacher, and textile designer. They most heavily document Katz's research and writings on LGBTQ history and activism, and encompass his personal life, family, friends, and the LGBTQ liberation movement. The collection also contains the papers of his parents, Bernard Katz and Phyllis Brownstone Katz. less

The Morris Dickstein papers, dating from 1940 to 2018 (bulk dates 1962-2018), chronicle the career of American literary scholar, author, critic, and former Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Morris Dickstein (1940-2021). The collection contains drafts of Dickstein's writings; correspondence with academics and literary figures; materials related to the Graduate Center; galley proofs; printed matter; grant applications; biographical materials; and audio and video recordings. less

Jonathan Schell, best known for his book, The Fate of the Earth, was a writer and educator who devoted his professional life to writing in opposition to nuclear weapons and war. His papers date from 1948 to 2014, and detail his career, education, and personal life through manuscripts, research files, notebooks, journals, and correspondence. less

Julia Richardson (1851-1938) was a diarist and the wife of a farmer who lived most of her life in Dracut, Massachusetts. The Julia Richardson diaries date from 1901 to 1938, and detail climatic, social, political, and technological changes, as well as everyday rural life. less

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was an English writer, poet, and the sister of Patrick Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Her papers, dating from 1829 to the 1990s, consist of holograph letters, poems, stories, and writing exercises; a painting; a travel writing desk; writing instruments, objects, and ephemera found in the desk; and artifacts associated with Brontë and her family. less

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was an English writer, poet, and the sister of Charlotte, Anne, and Patrick Branwell Brontë. Her papers, dating from the 1830s to 1844, are composed of holograph poems, essays, and a painting. The collection also holds supplementary materials, dating from the 1940s to the 1990s, about the history of the painting and holograph poems. less

Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848) was an English painter, poet, and writer and the only brother of the English writers Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brontë. His papers, dating from approximately the 1830s to 1845, are composed of holograph poems, short stories, and an unfinished novel. The collection also contains supplementary materials dating from the 1910s to the 1990s that describe the holographs' histories. less