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Writers Archive at Iowa

 Subject
Subject Source: Lc Locally Created

Found in 211 Collections and/or Records:

Ora Delmer Foster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0211
Abstract

Congregational minister, lecturer, and professor. Subject files, literary manuscripts, diaries, photographs, and books relating to Foster's life and career.

Dates: 1895-1965

Osha Gray Davidson Papers

 Collection
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 -

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

 Collection
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

Paul Engle Papers

 Collection
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

Paul G. Norris Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0283
Abstract

Editor and publisher in Marshalltown, Iowa. Office and family correspondence, subject files, and speeches.

Dates: 1948-1984

Paul V. Shearer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0489
Abstract

Lawyer, owner and publisher of the Columbus Gazette, and Methodist lay leader. Copies of his newspaper column, correspondence, speeches, and biographical material. Also conference programs, debates, commission reports, etc., relating to the Methodist Church.

Dates: 1919-1995

Phil Stong Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0705
Abstract

Iowa author best remembered for State Fair (film scripts dated 1945, 1961 and 1962 are here), Stong also wrote several books for children, including The Adventures of "Horse" Barnsby and Hirum the Hillbilly. Both of these, and others, are represented in this collection.

Dates: 1945-1961

Philip D. Adler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0229
Abstract

Newspaperman, publisher, president of Lee Enterprises, Inc., and philanthropist. Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and books.

Dates: 1904-1984

Phillip Margolin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0832
Abstract

American and foreign editions, manuscript materials, publicity materials, periodical appearances, and clippings for this lawyer-author of legal thrillers.

Dates: 1978-2007

R. Verlin Cassill manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: msc0579
Scope and Contents

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, Msc0869.

Dates: 1957-1963; Other: Date acquired: 0000Depa

R.A. Lafferty Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: msc0645
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: -

Reverend Leo R. Ward Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0720
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: -

Richard Maibaum Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0149
Abstract

American screenwriter, producer and actor. Personal papers contains an actors file, clippings and correspondences.

Dates: 1931-1991

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

Richard Sherman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0696
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: -

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: -

Robert Blees Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0124
Abstract

Motion picture and television script-writer and producer. Film treatments and screenplays written by Blees and other screenwriters, miscellaneous, memos and articles, film stills, photostats, phonographic recordings from soundtracks.

Dates: 1925-1965

Robert K. Beck Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0394
Abstract

Newspaper publisher in Centerville, Iowa . Correspondence, clippings, speeches, subject files, etc., relating to newspaper publishing, Republican politics, and the Rathbun Dam.

Dates: 1938-1968; Majority of material found within 1966-1968