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Al M. Lee Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0851
Abstract
Graduate of the Writers' Workshop, novelist and poet. This collection contains manuscripts, clippings, a photograph, and correspondence. Correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, John F. Kennedy, Mark Strand, Cleanth Brooks, and Donald Justice among others.
Dates:
1957-1994
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Alice French Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0605
Abstract
One of the most successful women writers of the later 19th century, Octave Thanet's stories and novels celebrated the status quo; she lived much of her life in Davenport, Iowa. Our holdings consist of a holograph draft of her story, The Governor's Prerogative, photographs, photocopies of other stories, and a microfilm of Voice of Nature.
Dates:
1868-1962
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Alice McMurry papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0646
Abstract
Promise City, Iowa elementary school teacher and poet.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1993-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Amy Clampitt Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0582
Abstract
Poet: Kingfisher (1983), Manhattan: An Elegy (UI Center for the Book, 1990), MacArthur Fellow, 1992, Collected Poems (1997). Correspondence and typescripts of some of her writings.
Dates:
1983-1993
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Angus Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0199
Abstract
Acclaimed British novelist and scholar. Research files, including administrative material, research materials, and corrected typescripts for her 1995 biography of novelist Sir Angus Wilson.
Dates:
1937-2011
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Arthur Davison Ficke Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0603
Abstract
Poet and writer born in Davenport, Iowa. Manuscripts include materials for a course in Arthurian legend given at the State University of Iowa 1906-1907, drafts of published poems and stories, and typescripts of unpublished stories and novels.
Dates:
1920-1940
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Calvin Kentfield Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0639
Abstract
Iowa writer. Manuscript for The Alchemist's Voyage and various clippings and tear sheets. Iowa Author Mss.
Dates:
-
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Carl Glick Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0611
Abstract
Story writer, playwright and film script writer, author of books for adults and children, Glick is best remembered for his books about the Chinese in America.
Dates:
1915-1971
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Charlton Laird Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0646
Abstract
Author who wrote extensively on language. This collection contains the manuscript and correspondence for one of his novels. Iowa Author collection.
Dates:
1951
Found in:
University of Iowa Special Collections
Christine Dutson papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0249
Abstract
Multi-volume memoir of a Mormon woman who was an educator, poet and advocate for the mentally ill.
Dates:
1954 - 2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Curtis Harnack Papers
Collection
Identifier: msc0621
Abstract
Assistant Editor (with Paul Engle) Prize Stories 1958-1959. Author of a memoir, We Have All Gone Away (1973), and other books. President of Yaddo, 1981-1987; 1992-1997 President of the School of American Ballet.
Dates:
1927 -; 1960-1980
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
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
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
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
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