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American Literary Studies
Special Collections: Twentieth Century to 1945
- American Authors Collection
The collection contains autographs of prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century American authors. It also includes some correspondence, manuscripts, portraits, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.
- Dorothy Dodds Baker (1907-1968) and
Howard Baker (1905-1990)
Published and unpublished manuscripts of poetry, plays, fiction
and essays by both authors as well as extensive correspondence
with other writers, friends, and family. Howard Baker, a Stanford
graduate and co-editor with Yvor Winters of the magazine Gyroscope,
was a novelist, poet, and literary scholar; Dorothy Baker published
several highly regarded novels and also wrote plays. Their friends
included Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Robert Penn Warren
as
well as Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis.
- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-1914?)
The papers consist primarily of correspondence to Bierce during
the later part of his life, from 1872-1913. Also included in the
collection are diaries, sketchbooks, photographs and memorabilia.
- Bernard De Voto (1897-1955)
Personal papers through 1955, including literary manuscripts and
correspondence. De Voto was a novelist, historian, critic, editor,
and a vigorous exponent of government conservation of natural
resources. DeVoto's column "The Easy Chair" was a regular
feature in Harper's from 1948-1955, and his correspondents include
many of the leading persons in contemporary literature, politics,
education, and the arts.
- Hawthorne Family Papers
Manuscripts, letters, journals, and sketch books from Sophia
Peabody Hawthorne, who was Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife, and
from two of
their children, the son Julian and the younger daughter, Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Hemingway letters and manuscripts from 1908 to 1961 along with
documents relating to Hemingway's life, and correspondence about
him from 1918 to1963.
- Janet Lewis (1899-1998 )
Personal papers through 1989, including manuscripts and correspondence.
A poet, novelist, short story writer, librettist, and teacher.
Lewis is the author of the widely praised historical novels The
Wife of Martin Guerre (1941), The Trial of Søren
Qvist (1947), and The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959).
- William Saroyan (1908-1981)
Manuscripts, personal notebooks, correspondence, family papers,
and private library, documenting the full gamut of Saroyan's life
and career, from early apprentice work in the 1920s through the
late novels and plays of the 1970s. Saroyan was a prolific novelist,
short story writer, dramatist, and memoirist. He drew on his experience
as an Armenian-American growing up in Fresno, California to project
a rhapsodic vision of the universal human condition. Among his
most famous works are the story collection The Daring Young
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), his Pulitzer Prize-winning
play, The Time of Your Life (1939), and the novel The
Human Comedy (1943), for which he received an Academy Award
for Original Story.
- The John Steinbeck Collections (1902-1968)
Stanford has significant holdings of Steinbeck materials, including
manuscripts, notes, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.
These are contained in a number of different collections.
- John Steinbeck's
The Forgotten Village Papers (1941)
Papers related to the collaboration between Herbert Kline and
John Steinbeck on the film, The Forgotten Village.
- John Steinbeck Foreign Editions
The collection contains over a thousand books in forty-seven
languages, including, among many others, Basque, Finnish, Farsi,
Korean, Slovak, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
- Yvor Winters (1900-1968)
Personal papers through 1968, including correspondence, manuscripts,
and materials related to his teaching at Stanford (1928-1966).
Poet and critic, Winters was a major voice in literary American
critcism from the late 1930s into the 1960s; his Collected
Poems won the Bollingen Prize in 1952.
Last modified:
December 3, 2007
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