Biographers -- United States -- 20th Century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Edward Killoran Brown collection of Willa Cather
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 490
Overview:
The collection documents Edward Killoran Brown's research and writing of Willa Cather, Willa Cather: A Critical Biography. The collection contains correspondence, writings, and research notes.
Dates:
1874-1953, bulk 1944-1953
Keith Fleming Papers Relating to Edmund White
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 887
Scope and Contents:
The Keith Fleming Papers Relating to Edmund White contain manuscripts, research files, biographical material, photographs, sound recordings of interviews, and electronic media created and collected by Fleming while working on the biography Original Youth: The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood.
Dates:
1993-1999, undated
Barbara Guest papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1185
Scope and Contents:
The Barbara Guest Papers span 1923 to 2006 and document Guest's life as a prominent American poet, her personal and professional relationships with other writers, and her personal life as a wife, mother, and friend. The papers include drafts of writings, correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, artwork, printed material, audiovisual material, born digital material, artwork, and a typewriter.
Dates:
1923-2006
Cynthia Earl Kerman Papers Relating to The Lives of Jean Toomer
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 116
Overview:
Research files, including notes, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, and audio tapes compiled by Cynthia Earl Kerman in the process of writing The Lives of Jean Toomer.
Dates:
1959-1982
David Leeming Collection of James Baldwin Research
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 172
Scope and Contents:
The papers contain audiocassettes, videocassettes, photographs, correspondence, and printed material related to David Leeming's biography of James Baldwin, James Baldwin: A Biography. The audiocassettes contain interviews with various family, friends, and colleagues of James Baldwin and his close friend and mentor, Beauford Delaney. The videocassettes contain television programs and an anthology of films on Baldwin. The photographs depict portraits of Baldwin and...
Dates:
1950-2002
Meryle Secrest papers
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 201
Scope and Contents:
The Meryle Secrest papers, which span from 1900 to 2011, contain writings, notes, correspondence, research materials, and audio recordings related to the life, work, and primarily the writings, of Meryle Secrest.
Dates:
1900-2011