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Annie Dillard papers, 1951-2019 63 Linear Feet

Dillard, Annie
The Annie Dillard Papers document the work and life of writer Annie Dillard. The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, drafts of writings, notebooks and diaries, teaching materials, drawings, photographs, printed materials, audiovisual materials, computer disks, personal effects, and personal papers. The bulk of the collection consists of Dillard's writings and correspondence.
  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Ann Lauterbach papers, 1926-2000 32.34 Linear Feet

Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-
The Ann Lauterbach Papers document the personal and professional life of American poet Ann Lauterbach and consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, and audiovisual material. The papers contain a number of drafts of Lauterbach's writings from early in her career until roughly 2000. Her correspondence reflects her intellectual circle with correspondents including writers and artists: Stacy Doris, Kenward Gray Elmslie, Richard Hamilton, Susan Howe, Garrett Kalleberg, Ron Padgett, Peter Straub, Marjorie Welish, and Chet Wiener. The papers also contain material relating to Lauterbach's family members including her father, war correspondent Richard Lauterbach.
  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Ann Petry manuscripts, 1944-1947 3.25 Linear Feet

Petry, Ann, 1908-1997

The Ann Petry Manuscripts contains the writings of American author Ann Petry. Writings consist of drafts of Petry's novels Country Place (1947) and The Street (1946), some with extensive revisions. Some draft pages were written on the back of Negro Women, Incorporated, newsletters and governance documents. Also included are drafts of Petry's review of Margaret Halsey's Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the Negro (1946). Correspondence consists of a carbon copy of Petry's 1944 submission to the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Contest.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

A. Poulin papers and BOA Editions records, 1951-1996 136.34 Linear Feet

Poulin, A., Jr., 1938-1996
The A. Poulin Papers and BOA Editions Records provide evidence of the personal and professional life of American poet A. Poulin and the publishing company he founded, BOA Editions. The papers document Poulin's career as a poet, editor, translator, and publisher and consist of correspondence, manuscripts, books, business papers, photographs, videotapes, computer disks, and printed material concerning BOA Editions. Correspondents include Graywolf Press, Lucille Clifton, Anne He?bert, David Ignatow, Li-Young Lee, John Logan, Peter Makuck, Bertrand Mathieu, Anthony Piccione, Katerina Angelake?-Rouk, Louis Simpson, and W. D. Snodgrass, among others. The archive provides evidence of the founding and early work of BOA Editions and sheds light into the American not-for-profit publishing industry in the later twentieth-century.
  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Archibald MacLeish Collection Addition, 1801-1995 47.31 Linear Feet

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
The Archibald MacLeish Collection Addition consists of material related to the life and career of the American poet Archibald MacLeish received by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library after the processing of the Archibald MacLeish Collection acquired in 1976. The Addition consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, personal papers, and sound recordings documenting MacLeish and his family between 1801 and 1995.
  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Barbara Howes papers, 1914-1995 27.34 Linear Feet

Howes, Barbara, 1914-1996
The Barbara Howes papers contain writings, correspondence, personal and financial papers, and photographs documenting the life and literary career of American poet and editor Barbara Howes. The collection includes extensive files on all of Howes's book-length publications and many manuscripts and typescripts of individual poems, short stories and articles; her correspondence with her family, particularly with her mother and her husband, the poet William Jay Smith; and letters from a wide circle of literary friends and colleagues, including Leonie Adams, Elizabeth Bishop, Malcolm Cowley, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Katherine Anne Porter, Theodore Roethke, and Richard Wilbur.
  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Barnaby Conrad papers, 1951-1975 3.75 Linear Feet

Conrad, Barnaby, 1922-2013
The papers consist of writings, printed material, photographs, and artwork by and relating to the American author and artist Barnaby Conrad. Material relates primarily to Conrad's published works Fun While It Lasted (1969); La Fiesta Brava: The Art of the Bull Ring (1953); Matador (1952); and Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961). Among the papers are unsorted typescript and handwritten drafts of writings.
  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Benét Family Collection, 1912-1979 8.89 Linear Feet

Benét Family

The Benét family collection consists of correspondence, writings, and other material documenting personal and professional activities of members of the literary Benét family. The collection features material by and relating to William Rose Benét and Stephen Vincent Benét.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Benét Family Papers, 1836-1994 26.65 Linear Feet

Benét, James, 1914-

The Benét family papers consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and other papers documenting the lives and activities of four generations of the Benét family. Material relating to members of the Rose, Mahon, and Carr families can also be found. The collection spans the years from 1849 to 1994.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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