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Selden Rodman papers, 1935-2000

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Abstract Or Scope: The papers consist of published and unpublished writings, correspondence with a small number of acclaimed writers and artists, and handwritten journals kept between 1938 and 2000 that document the career and personal life of Selden Rodman.

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1938 - 1943; HAITI, Frost, Spender, Faulkner [political philosophy as developed in Common Sense ; Conversations with modern American poets (James Agee, W. H. Auden, Theodore Dreiser, Christopher Isherwood, etc.); Notes for The Airmen (1941); documents anxieties in years leading up to WWII and early years in Army; first trip to South America; marriage to Hilda Clausen; ends with interviews from 1948-1951 with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway] Box 2, Folder 1

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"1943-45: WAR" [Records experiences in the war, including commentary on culture of armed officers; notes for and critical reception of The Revolutionists (1942); life in Washington D.C. working with Office of Strategic Services; early contact with American art scene and critics (Peggy Guggenheim, Sam Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg)] Box 2, Folder 2

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"1956: ARTISTS; West Coast", "May-Oct 56; ARTISTS": [interviews with American artists and architects such as Jackson Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and Edward Hopper for Conversations with Artists (1957); relationship w/ 3rd wife, Maia Wojciechowska] Box 2, Folder 3 - 4

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