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Reporter, women's page editor, and columnist for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune from the 1940s until 1988.

Scope and Contents This collection focuses on the professional career of award winning journalist, former Speech Writer and Press Secretary, bestselling author of narrative non-fiction and professor, Stephen G. Bloom. The bulk of this collection is made up of drafts of manuscripts from his major novels and creative works, each accompanied by extensive research notes and correspondence, as well as promotional materials relating to each work's release. Each of these can be found in the PROJECTS series. The Brazil Chronicles (University of Missouri Press), is the history of an eclectic English-language expat newspaper in Rio de Janeiro that dates to 1879. Bloom’s narrative work is exemplified by three other of his bestselling books, Postville (Harcourt, 2000), The Oxford Project (Welcome Books, 2008), and Tears of Mermaids (St. Martin’s,...

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Reporter and city editor for Oskaloosa's Globe Press later elected Grand supreme chapter president of the PEO sisterhood.

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One folder shelved in SCVF.

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Reporter and editor for The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Nye's career with the Gazette. Includes information on Iowa politics and legislature, reapportionment, Herbert Hoover, and copies of articles written by Nye.

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Journalist and editor for the Des Moines Register. Correspondence, editorials, and subject files reflecting his professional career as a reporter, editor, and columnist for the Register.

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Journalist for the Toledo Blade and writer of the first Nancy Drew mysteries and other children's series books; collection includes writings, clippings, scrapbooks, fan mail, photographs, and a typewriter.

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Newspaper reporter and author of poems and essays. The collection includes scrapbooks and photograph albums.

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Journalist who worked at the International News Service in Des Moines, Iowa during World War II and became its first woman bureau chief.