Found 8 collections related to American literature -- 20th century

E. Annie Proulx (1935-) is an American author, journalist, and historian who has published eleven books, including the novels Postcards, The Shipping News, Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Proulx's papers date from 1839 to 2024, and detail her creative output throughout her literary career. The collection includes Proulx's research materials, writing, interviews, correspondence, and personal ephemera. less

The publishing company Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. was founded in 1945 as Farrar, Straus & Company by John Farrar and Roger W. Straus, Jr. After numerous changes in management and corresponding changes in name, the company became known as Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. (FSG) in 1964 when Robert Giroux became editor-in-chief. The company firmly established itself as a quality publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. FSG remained staunchly independent of conglomerate publishing for many years. Even after selling controlling interest to the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1994, FSG maintained much of the freedom of an independent publishing house. less

The papers of poet and teacher Genevieve Taggard include correspondence, drafts of poetry and prose (most notably for her 1930 book The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson), photographs, notebooks, teaching materials, memorabilia, and other personal and professional materials. The papers also have several audio recordings of Taggard reading her poems. In addition, the collection holds correspondence and writings of her first husband, Robert L. Wolf, her daughter, Marcia Durant Liles, and her parents and siblings. Materials compiled by her second husband, Kenneth Durant, in his attempt at creating a comprehensive bibliography of Taggard's published works, are also included. less

Martin B. Duberman (born 1930) is an American historian, author, playwright, gay rights activist, and scholar known for establishing Queer studies as an academic discipline. His papers, which date from 1917 to 2023, reflect Duberman's professional career, activist endeavors, and personal life. The Martin B. Duberman papers hold correspondence and diaries spanning his adult life; writings files, including manuscripts, research material and reviews; syllabi and lecture notes for college courses he taught; files on activist, cultural, and academic organizations in which he participated; scrapbooks; photographs; and audio and moving image recordings of his radio and television appearances, home movies, and interviews conducted as research for his written work. less

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 pioneer of the New Journalism and has been an outspoken advocate for the revival of social realism in American fiction. The Tom Wolfe papers, dated 1930 to 2016, comprehensively document Wolfe's career, providing insight into his writing process and the development of his signature style; the professional relationships he maintained with editors, writers, and cultural critics; his social life in New York City; and readers' responses to his published work. The collection includes draft manuscripts, outlines, research files, correspondence, lectures, photographs, and drawings. less