Found 15 collections related to Authors

Menashe, Samuel, 1925-2011
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS 186234
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was an American poet. The collection comprises two autograph letters signed by Samuel Menashe to American author Meredith Hall (1949-), a recent acquaintance, dated April 17 and May 14, 2007. The letter of April 17 (one... more
Wolfe, Tom
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 22833
98.03 linear feet (236 boxes, 1 volume, 4 oversize folders, 8 audio files)
Tom Wolfe is an American author and journalist known for such works as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities. He is a... more
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 24834
1 item (1 leaf) (27 x 21 cm)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American Beat novelist, essayist, and poet. The collection consists of an autograph manuscript (1 leaf) containing Jack Kerouac's notes or journal entry entitled "Áu Revoir a l'Art .... Period 394," dated Nov. 16,... more
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 24874
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Joseph Conrad was a British novelist, essayist, short-story writer, playwright, and translator. Elbridge L. Adams (1866-1934), an American lawyer and publisher, was a friend of Conrad and one of his early biographers. The collection comprises... more
Dolan, Michael J., 1884-1954
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 24876
.13 linear feet (1 custom document box)
Michael J. Dolan (1884-1954) was an Irish actor and theatrical stage manager, manager, and producer. He was associated with the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Ireland, for most of his career. The collection (14 items) consists of letters written to... more
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 28384
.08 linear feet (1 volume)
James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Richard William Wallace (1872-1927) was an American commercial artist and advertising executive who resided in Paris for a number of years. The... more
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 24898
.17 linear feet (1 custom document box)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American Beat novelist, essayist, and poet. Kerouac mentioned plans to write a novel called Beat Traveler as early as 1958, but it was only in January 1960 that he began working on it in earnest. His letter of... more
Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 29926
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co-founder of the Irish National Theater Society at the Abbey Theater, and patron of the Irish Literary Renaissance.... more
Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 29935
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, and essayist. The collection comprises two autograph letters and one autograph postcard, all signed J. M. Synge: an autograph letter signed (one page) to his publisher [Joseph M.] Hone, 1907... more
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 28385
.1 linear feet ( 1 folder)
Typed letter signed (2 pages) from British author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), dated 1927 September 20, London, to Ellery Sedgwick (1872-1960), editor and owner of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston. The letter pertains to the forthcoming publication... more
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS 185983
1 item (1 page) (21 x 13 cm)
Autograph letter signed "your loving Virginia" by British author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) at Athens, Greece, September 19, 1906, to family friend Susan Lushington (1870-1953) at Kingsley, Alton, Hampshire. Woolf (then Virginia Stephen) was... more
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 186026
.21 linear feet (1 box)
Truman Capote (1924-1984) was a celebrated American author whose major works include Other Voices, Other Rooms; Breakfast at Tiffany's; and In Cold Blood. "Mrs. Willows' Dinner Party," a short story written by Truman Capote, is based on the 1955... more
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS 186093
1 item (2 pages) (23 x 18 cm + accompanying material)
Bernard Shaw, born George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish writer of novels, plays, poems, short stories, and literary criticism. The item is a manuscript copy of George Bernard Shaw's letter to the editor of The Times of London, dated February 2, 1909,... more
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll 29967
.1 linear feet ( 1 folder)
Typescript sermon (3 pages), with holograph revisions in ink, by the Anglo-American poet and writer W. H. Auden (1907-1973). Auden delivered this sermon during the Evensong service of October 24, 1965 at Christ Church, Oxford, at the invitation of... more
Swados, Elizabeth
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2016-020
35.28 linear feet (89 boxes, 8 oversize folders)
Elizabeth Swados (1951-2016) was a composer, musician, theatre director, writer, poet, and illustrator. The Elizabeth Swados papers, Additions (1950-2014) document the career, and to a much lesser extent, the personal life, of playwright,... more
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