Biographers -- United States -- 20th Century -- Archives

Overview: The collection consists of research material, writings, correspondence, audiocassettes, printed material, personal papers, financial papers, photographs, and other papers, documenting the work of James R. Mellow as an art critic, a book reviewer, and a literary biographer, shedding particular light on his biographies of Gertrude Stein, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Walker Evans.

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.