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American Literary Studies
William Abrahams Papers
The Papers
The William Abrahams Papers include material on books that Abrahams
edited under his own imprint for such presses as the Atlantic Monthly
Press, Holt Rhinehart and Winston, and Dutton. The papers contain
working drafts, typescripts, research notes, and correspondence.
Also present is a collection of the books Abrahams edited during
his distinguished career, and the texts he co-authored with historian
Peter Stansky
Location of the Collection: Department of Special Collections,
Green Library
Call Number: M1125
Size: 42 linear ft
Finding Guide: Finding Guide: A printed version is
available in the reading room of the Department of Special Collections.
Electronic versions of this finding guide are also available. If
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Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of
Special Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the
Special Collections' Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library.
The Reading Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday.
Photocopies, photographs, and microfilm can be made of some materials
in the collections. For more information about the collections and
access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone
at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail at speccollref@stanford.edu
or by regular mail at the Department of Special Collections, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Career of William Abrahams (1919 - 1998 )
A poet and a novelist, William Abrahams became on of the leading
literary editors in the American publishing scene. He worked with
many renowned writers including Joyce Carol Oates, Lillian Hellman,
Diane Johnson, Brian Moore, and Pauline Kael. Beginning as a poet,
Abrahams released his first novel Interval in Carolina (1945)
to good reviews. He followed with By the Beautiful Sea (1947)
and Imperial Waltz (1954) before beginning a career in editing
for Atlantic Monthly Press in 1963. In 1965 he began supervising
the O. Henry Awards, editing annual anthologies of the best entries,
which he continued until his retirement in 1996. Abrahams also produced
four non-fiction works that he co-authored with historian Peter
Stansky, Journey to the Frontier; Two Roads to the Spanish Civil
War (1966), The Unknown Orwell (1972), Orwell: The
Transformation (1980), and London's Burning: Life, Death,
and Art in the Second World War (1994).
Related Manuscript Collections at Stanford
Peter Stansky Papers, 1964-1987
Last modified:
July 3, 2006
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