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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Nancy Veglahn Papers

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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

Osha Gray Davidson Papers

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Identifier: MsC0588
Abstract

Free-lance journalist and author of Broken Heartland and Under Fire. Correspondence, research notes, and preliminary drafts of his writings.

Dates: 1987 -

Papers of Ruth Suckow

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Identifier: MsC0706
Abstract

This collection is comprised of photographs, letters, paintings, and manuscripts of Ruth Suckow, family, and friends.

Dates: 1887-1988

Paul Corey Papers

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Identifier: MsC0585
Abstract

Writer Three Miles Square (1939), environmentalist, and animal activist. Correspondence, subject files, scrapbooks, and preliminary drafts of writings.

Dates: 1920 - 1992

Paul Engle Papers

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Identifier: MsC0514
Abstract

Poet (numerous books from Worn Earth, 1932), editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, 1954-1959, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967, and co-founder and director of the International Writers' Program, 1967-1976 at the University of Iowa. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, and student works documenting his career as a writer and teacher.

Dates: 1929-1988

Richard Pike Bissell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0565
Abstract

Typescript and holograph drafts, galley proofs, editor's notes, source material, etc., documenting the writings of this Dubuque novelist and author of 7 1/2 Cents (1953), the basis of the musical hit, The Pajama Game (1954, filmed 1957).

Dates: 1951-1973

Robert Bernard Martin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0655
Scope and Contents

This collection contains only the manuscript for With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward Fitzgerald.

Dates: -

Sadie Seagrave Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0693
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: -

Seymour Krim Papers

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Identifier: MsC0367
Abstract

Journalist and essayist. Correspondence, typescripts, notes, reviews, published copies, etc. relating to his literary career and his contributions to beat literature and the new journalism movement.

Dates: 1950-2012

Steven Dow Mossman Papers

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Identifier: MsC0663
Abstract

Writer born in Cedar Rapids. Collection includes extensive pre-publication materials for Mossman's highly regarded novel, The Stones of Summer (1972) as well as drafts written while a student in the Writer's Workshop.

Dates: 1966 - 1972

Thomas W. Duncan Papers

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Identifier: MsC0594
Abstract

Novelist and story writer. Preliminary drafts, notes, revisions, and galley proofs for three of his novels, including a highly successful circus novel, Gus the Great (1947).

Dates: 1940-1959

Thomas Yoseloff Papers

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Identifier: MsC0735
Abstract

Journalist and publisher. Managing editor of The Daily Iowan as a student, later wrote for newspapers including the New York Times and the Omaha World Herald. Collection consists of drafts for A Fellow of Infinite Jest (1946), a biography of Laurence Sterne, and his own autobiography, The Time of My Life.

Dates: 1946; Undated

Vance Bourjaily Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0568
Scope and Contents

Novelist and Writers' Workshop instructor. Typescript with notes and revisions of his novel, A Game Men Play (Dial Press, 1980). Iowa Authors Ms.

Dates: 1980

Velma Ford Morrison Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0662
Abstract

Author of books for children, president of the Morrison Book Company. Correspondence, preliminary drafts and art work for her books including There's Only One You (1978) and Going On a Dig (1981).

Dates: 1953 - 1982

Wallace Stegner Papers

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Identifier: MsC0703
Abstract

Award-winning novelist, story writer, essayist, historian, English professor at Stanford, and frontline conservationist. Preliminary drafts and proofs for seven novels.

Dates: 1957 - 1977

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