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David Morrell Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0478
Abstract
Born in Ontario 1943, awarded a PhD in American literature by Pennsylvania State University in 1970, taught at Iowa from 1970 to 1986, retired to write. Perhaps best known for Rambo, the central character of his 1972 novel First Blood, which lead to the Rambo films starring Sylvester Stallone, Morrell has written numerous novels as well as screen- and teleplays. The growing collection of his papers includes video and audio tapes as well as research notes, correspondence, and manuscripts.
Dates:
1974-1999
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
David Swift Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0125
Abstract
Television and motion picture writer, director and producer. Television and motion picture scripts, screenplays, publicity, reviews, notes and memos, set designs, and costume sketches.
Dates:
1951-1965
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Don Farran Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0600
Abstract
Writer, State Director Historical Records Survey. Collection includes drafts of poems and stories but consists largely of scripts for Navy and Coast Guard training films dating from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
Dates:
1930-1978
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Dorothy Garlock Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0607
Abstract
Romance novelist from Love and Cherish (1980), a career started to avoid the boredom of retirement.
Dates:
1980-1989
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Dorothy M. Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0632
Abstract
Editor, novelist and professor of journalism at the University of Montana. Typescript drafts and related correspondence for several short stories and her novel, The Hanging Tree. Also some family correspondence and photographs. Johnson wrote Liberty Valence and A Man Called Horse, both, like The Hanging Tree, made into motion pictures.
Dates:
1896-1958
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Edmund Blunden Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0829
Abstract
Correspondence and manuscripts of the British scholar and poet.
Dates:
1918-1982
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Edward Beatty Rowan Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0412
Scope and Contents
There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.
Dates:
-
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Edward Gorman Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0613
Abstract
Author of mysteries (the Tobin and Jack Dwyer series), westerns (as Leo Guild), and horror novels under several pseudonyms. Former advertising executive. Preliminary drafts of his writings.
Dates:
1990 -
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Edwin Ford Piper Collection
Collection
Identifier: msc0040
Overview
Piper's notes on Western ballads, with music for some; other folk materials including rhymes, riddles, games, folk sayings, quadrille calls, slang, superstitions, and folk remedies.
Dates:
1929-1941
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Edwin L. Sabin Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0688
Abstract
Novelist. Correspondence, scrapbooks, subject files, preliminary drafts of his writings.
Dates:
1870-1952
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Eleanor Pownall Simmons Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: msc0698
Abstract
Printmaker and artist, Simmons wrote and illustrated a number of books for children.
Dates:
1960-1970
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Ellis Parker Butler Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0575
Abstract
Author and businessman from Iowa , best known for his short story Pigs is Pigs. The papers consist of correspondence to and from Butler about his writing and the Author's League of America . His wife's correspondence is also included.
Dates:
1913-1937
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Elswyth Thane Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0707
Abstract
Playwright, biographer and novelist. Holograph notebooks containing first drafts of several historical novels, printer's copies, and correspondence are included. There are audiotapes of her research for Potomac Squire, a book about George Washington.
Dates:
1943-1963
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Elton Trueblood Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0710
Scope and Contents
There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.
Dates:
-
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Emerson Hough Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0628
Abstract
Journalist, editor of Forest and Stream, and novelist of the West. Includes letterpress book, 1902-1912 and 34 letters 1912-1923 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bigelow.
Dates:
1902-1975
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Erik Bert Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0426
Abstract
Born Herbert Joseph Putz. Communist journalist and editor in the 1930s of The Producers News and Farmers National Weekly; his career after 1941 was with the Daily World. Subject files, correspondence, notebooks, typescripts, and published writings regarding the link between communism and agriculture.
Dates:
1930-1979; 1960-1970
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Esther Carlson Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: msc0756
Scope and Contents
There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, Msc0869.
Dates:
1947-1948
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Eugene L. Burdick Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0574
Abstract
Author and co-author of such books as The Ugly American and Fail-Safe. This collection contains a manuscript for the book The Blue of Capricorn, and the serialized version of Fail-Safe, as well as clippings relating to Burdick. Iowa Author Ms.
Dates:
1962
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Evelyn Harter Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0622
Abstract
Harter was born in Keokuk, Iowa. Completing a BA at the University of Iowa in 1925, she moved to New York City where she shared an apartment for a time with Ruth Suckow. Primarily a typographer and book designer, she worked for publishers such as Cape and Smith, Smith and Haas, and Random House. Her first novel, Dr. Katherine Bell (Doubleday, 1950) is partially set in Iowa City. She gave a corrected typescript and a set of corrected galleys just after the novel was published.
Dates:
1930-1999
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Evelyn Nelson papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0671
Scope and Contents
There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.
Dates:
1925 - 1939
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
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