Found 5 collections related to Biographers.

Cliff Jahr (1937-1991) was an American journalist and writer. This collection consists of research files for celebrity profiles and other articles about the entertainment industry published between 1972 and 1991, and files on the 1988 book Detour: A Hollywood Tragedy -- My Life with Lana Turner, My Mother, which Jahr co-wrote with Cheryl Crane. less

Horace Traubel (1858-1919) was an American writer, publisher, editor, and literary executor and biographer of the American poet Walt Whitman. His scrapbook, dating from 1888 to 1917, consists of autograph notes from his conversations with Walt Whitman, as well as a laid-in letter, dated 1917, by his friend William Gable. less

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

Agnes De Mille was a dancer, choreographer, and author who wrote a 1993 biography of Martha Graham entitled Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham. The Agnes De Mille transcripts for Martha Graham biography dates from 1972 to 1989, and contains transcripts of the interviews De Mille conducted while writing and researching the book. less

Barbara Arnest (1923-2017) was a writer and editor who worked on an unfinished biography of modern dance pioneer Hanya Holm. The Barbara Arnest collection of Hanya Holm material dates from 1965 to 1986 and holds Arnest's notes, interview recordings and transcripts, bibliographic research, programs, audio recordings, and a few incomplete drafts. The class notes and recordings document the content of Holm's classes and her style of teaching. less