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Writers Archive at Iowa

 Subject
Subject Source: Lc Locally Created

Found in 211 Collections and/or Records:

Marquis Childs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0581
Abstract

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Typescript drafts, galleys, proofs, and layouts for some of his books. Also general correspondence files, speeches, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1939-1978; Majority of material found within 1950-1969

Martin Yoseloff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0734
Abstract

Editor and novelist. Manuscripts for nine books, including No Greener Meadows (1946), his first novel.

Dates: 1940-1990

Mary E. Winchell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0729
Abstract

Manuscript for Home on the Bering Sea with correspondence and clippings. Iowa Author Mss.

Dates: 1950-1952

Mary Ellen Evans Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0598
Abstract

Personal and business correspondence of this Dominican tertiary and editor, this collection also includes manuscripts for two of Evans' published works, as well as some unpublished manuscripts. Iowa Author.

Dates: 1929-1975; Majority of material found within 1950-1970

Mary Huiskamp Calhoun

 Collection
Identifier: msc0577
Abstract

Well-known children's author. This collection consists of several versions of her manuscript for Magic in the Alley. This collection has become part of the Iowa Authors Manuscript Collection, MsC869.

Dates: 1964-1968

Mathias M. Hoffmann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0741
Scope and Contents

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author's Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.

Dates: -

Max Allan Collins papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0500
Abstract

Author, filmmaker, and comic strip writer. The papers document his film and literary career. His novels, comics (including Dick Tracy and Ms. Tree), and screenplays are represented in various forms of completion, with typescript drafts, artwork, correspondence, research, galley proofs, and promotional material.

Dates: 1967-1996

Maxine Finsterwald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0427
Abstract

Radio scriptwriter (Kaffee Klatch and Playhouse of the Air among others) and playwright (as Maxine Wood). Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, typescripts, etc. Finsterwald, playwright and author, published under the name "Maxine Wood".

Dates: 1928-1983; Majority of material found within 1940-1960

Meredith Willson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0731
Abstract

Writer, musician, composer, and lyricist, best known for The Music Man. Manuscript drafts from his books, a script from The Music Man, and sheet music.

Dates: 1948-1957

Merle Armitage Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0558
Abstract

Set designer, impresario, co-founder and manager of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association, president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, art director of Look and Quick magazines, and book designer. Correspondence, typescripts of Accent on Life and George Gershwin: Man and Legend, and files on other projects.

Dates: 1932-1965

Merle Miller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0660
Abstract

Editor at Yank, Time and Harper's, biographer of presidents, script writer, and novelist. Drafts, correspondence, printer's copies, and reviews for four of his books; the materials for The Sure Thing (1953) are extensive.

Dates: 1948 - 1961; Majority of material found in 1953

Merritt C. Speidel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0104
Abstract

Newspaper publisher and founder of the Speidel Newspaper Syndicate. The papers consist of correspondence of both a personal and business nature.

Dates: 1914-1960

Milton Monroe Reigelman: Collection on The Midland

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0329
Abstract

Collector and scholar. Chiefly correspondence assembled in preparing his A Study of the Midland Magazine: 1915-1933 (1973) and The Midland: a Venture in Literary Regionalism (1975).

Dates: 1917-1973

Nancy Veglahn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0713
Abstract

Author of numerous books for young adults, many on science subjects. Collection includes manuscripts and correspondence about, among other titles, Follow the Golden Goose (1971) and Coils, Magnets and Rings (1976).

Dates: 1964-1976

Nellie Aurner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0784
Scope and Contents

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author's Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.

Dates: -

Nicholas Meyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0425
Abstract

Screenwriter and director. Typescripts, screenplays, correspondence, clippings, proofs, photographs, etc.

Dates: 1945-2015; Majority of material found within 1980-1999

Nick Thimmesch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0709
Abstract

Journalist with Time and Newsday, where he began a column nationally syndicated in 1969. Author of several books. Correspondence, research, interviews, audio tapes, photographs, speeches, reporter's notebooks, and preliminary drafts of his works.

Dates: 1956-1985; 1970-1989

Norman Dubie Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0409
Abstract

Poet: numerous books from Alehouse Sonnets (1971) to Funeral (1998). Manuscripts, correspondence, other papers.

Dates: 1970-1993; Majority of material found within 1970-1979

Norman Felton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0265
Abstract

British born American television producer and director. Correspondence, clippings, photographs, notebooks, binders.

Dates: 1940-1993; Majority of material found within 1960-1969

Oakville Iowa Sentinel Records

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0267
Abstract

Ledgers with subscription lists, printing orders, and cash books.

Dates: 1903-1930