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American Literary Studies
Special Collections: Twentieth-Century Literary Publishers
- William Abrahams Papers
Educated at Harvard, William Abrahams (1919-1998) was a poet and
novelist before becoming one of the most distinguished literary
editors on the American publishing scene during the last decades
of the twentieth century. Among the many renowned writers whose
work he guided into print were Lillian Hellman, Joyce Carol Oates,
Diane Johnson, Brian Moore, and Pauline Kael. Abrahams was also
an influential force in fostering the short story in America,
editing the annual O.Henry award volumes for more than thirty
years. The William Abrahams Papers include extensive materials
on the scores of books that he edited under his own imprint, for
such publishing houses as the Atlantic Monthly Press, Holt Rhinehart
and Winston, and Dutton. In addition to the working drafts, typescripts,
research notes, and correspondence of the writers Abrahams edited,
his papers also contain the research notes and correspondence
related to the books Abrahams co-authored with his collaborator,
Stanford history professor Peter Stansky.
- Black Lizard Press
Records of the press from 1980 through its closing in 1991, including
correspondence and contracts as well as business papers and production
materials. Under the editorial guidance of writer Barry Gifford,
Black Lizard published reprint editions of long unavailable noir
writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Harry Whittington,
and a host of other paperback authors.
- E. V. Griffith Archive
Literary papers (1945-1995) of E. V. Griffith, poet and editor,
with material from virtually every poet of the American avant-garde.
Materials from Griffith's years issuing distinguished small magazines
in the second half of the century: Sheaf, Hearse, Hearse Chapbooks,
Coffin, and Poetry Now, including manuscripts, correspondence,
printed matter, photographs.
- North Point Press
Records of the press from 1980 through its closing in 1991, including
correspondence and manuscripts of authors published as well as
business papers and production materials. North Point published
books by such major writers as Wendell Berry, Evan Connell, Michael
Palmer, Gary Snyder, and Gilbert Sorrentino.
- The Reaper
Records of the journal from 1979 until its final issue in 1989.
The Reaper, a poetry magazine founded in 1980 by Robert
McDowell and Mark Jarman, was an important voice in the movement
in American poetry that became known as the New Narrative or the
New Formalism.
- Review of Contemporary Fiction/Dalkey
Archive Press
Records of the journal and press from 1980-1988, including correspondence
and manuscripts of contributors and authors published. Materials
focus on such recent American as Gilbert Sorrentino, Paul Bowles,
John Hawkes, and Coleman Dowell.
Last modified:
June 1, 2009
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