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Pamela Walker Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0717
Abstract

Teacher and novelist. Author of Twyla (1973, 1976), a book for young adults. Three drafts, related correspondence.

Dates: 1971-1973

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

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0585
Abstract

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

Dates: 1920 - 1992

R. Keith Courtney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0761
Abstract

Iowa City resident and artist. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s Courtney conducted a project titled Notes From All Over, which invited artists to send him found objects and printed matter. The collection consists of art works, correspondence, and related documentation dating from 1971-1995.

Dates: 1971-1995

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

Ruth Lechlitner Papers

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Identifier: MsC0474
Abstract

Poet and teacher. Correspondence, subject files, and preliminary drafts of her writings.

Dates: 1919-1988

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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Wallace Stegner Papers

 Collection
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

William A. Rohlf Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0685
Scope and Contents

This collection is made up of the manuscript works of Dr. Rohlf's Good Morning, Doctor!, and related materials.

Dates: 1937-1938

Wise Clark Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0419
Abstract

Family papers consisting of correspondence on life in Iowa and Illinois in the Civil War era and beyond.

Dates: 1855 - 1923; Majority of material found within 1860-1869

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