Found 12 collections related to Authors.

Karl E. Meyer (1928-2019) was an American journalist and author most known for his foreign correspondent work and editorial writing at The New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as for authoring numerous non-fiction books addressing topics of world affairs, history, and culture. The Karl E. Meyer papers reflect his career and life through writings, correspondence, academic work, and personal files. The collection holds draft manuscripts, clippings of Meyer's published articles, notebooks, appointment books, academic files, and files relating to his childhood, education, and family. 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

Vivian Gornick (born 1935) is an American feminist critic, author, and memoirist who is known for her involvement with the second-wave feminist movement while reporting for The Village Voice. Her papers, dated 1965 to 2021, detail her writing process and published output after leaving the Voice, with an emphasis on her book projects. The collection holds typed and handwritten drafts, research files, reviews, correspondence, and interviews. less

Joanne Carson (1931-2015) was an American model, flight attendant, and television host who was close friends with Truman Capote. Capote (1924-1984) was an American author and frequent house guest at Carson's Bel Air, California home. The Joanne Carson papers related to Truman Capote primarily consist of manuscripts, notes, and ephemera Capote left behind in Carson's house when he died there, as well as manuscripts written by Carson and candid photographs of Capote, Carson, and their friends. less

The Manuel Martínez Nazario Collection of Puerto Ricans in the World of Comics, dating from the 1950s to 2024, contains more than 1,500 comic books, trade paperbacks, hardcover collections, and zines by Puerto Rican creators; comics about Puerto Rico or featuring Puerto Rican characters; and original comic book artwork by Puerto Rican artists. Materials in the collection, which include both commercial and independent comics, were published in Puerto Rico and the continental United States, and feature the work of such writers and artists as Martín Gaudier, George Pérez, Ricardo Álvarez Rivón, and Kenneth Rocafort. less

Joan Didion (1934-2021) and John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003) were writers closely associated with the New Journalism movement who wrote novels, essays, long-form nonfiction, and screenplays. Didion and Dunne's papers date from the 1840s through 2022 (bulk dates 1950s-2010s) and chronicle their literary and screenwriting careers through correspondence, publishing files, notes for writing projects, photographs, and research files. The papers also include objects from their home lives, certificates and awards, personal and family ephemera, and artwork. 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

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 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

Dick Leitsch (1935-2018) was an American gay rights activist and author. Leitsch, who served as president of the Mattachine Society of New York from 1965 through 1971, is best known for organizing Mattachine's "Sip-in" protest of 1966. The Dick Leitsch papers, which date from the 1940s to 2018, reveal his activist efforts, writing career, and personal pursuits through journals, correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, research files, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. less