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American literature

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

American Literature ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 6045
Abstract

Collection consists of various literature publications, journals, posters and broadsides, articles, and other publications, related to 20th century American writers.

Dates: Majority of material found within c.1910s-1990s

Robert (Douglas) Hardy Andrews typescripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0079
Abstract

Typescripts of Andrews's (1903 - 1976) novels, Legend of a Lady (Coward-McCann, 1949), and Great Day in the Morning (Coward-McCann, 1950).

Dates: 1949 - 1950

Charles Bonner Papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275038201480]
Identifier: 0023
Abstract

Typescripts of Bonner's (1896-1965) novels Legacy (Knopf, 1940), Angel Casey (Knopf, 1941), and Ambition (Coward-McCann, 1946). Charles Bonner was born in 1896 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a newspaper reporter, and became a publicist in 1923. His first novel, The Fanatics, was published in 1932. Bonner moved to California in 1935 and became a full time writer of stories, novels, and screenplays. His novel Legacy was made into a film Adam Had Four Sons in 1941. He died in 1965.

Dates: circa 1940

Paul Bowles papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0132
Abstract

Correspondence, periodical appearances, tape recordings; typed draft and galleys for Bowles's autobiography, Without Stopping (Putnam, 1972). Also includes 1 large folder of scores, autographed programs, and manuscripts of Paul Bowles materials, donated by pianist Hannetta Clarke, who performed with Bowles on occasion. Some of those performances are documented in the papers.

Dates: 1950 - 1979

Malcolm Stuart Boylan typescript

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0029
Abstract

Typescript of Boylan's novel The Tin Sword (Little, Brown, 1950). This American writer was born in Chicago, Illinois Apr. 13, 1897, and died Apr. 3, 1967.

Dates: 1950 - 1950

T. Coraghessan Boyle typescripts

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275038204831]
Identifier: 0152
Abstract

Typescript drafts of the story, "The Zoo," written 1971-73 and first published in Texas Quarterly (Spring 1978). T. Coraghessan Boyle (b.1948) is a member of the USC faculty.

Dates: 1971 - 1973

Philip Dunne papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2041
Abstract

Collection consists of notes for each film that writer, director, producer Philip Dunne (1908-1992) worked on; 5 reels of taped self-interviews; working copies of 15 novels adapted for the screen.

Dates: 1935 - 2000

Lawrence Ferlinghetti papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0143
Abstract

Tapes, clippings, periodicals, correspondence of the San Francisco poet and publisher (b.1919); archives of the poetry journal Beatitude; draft and galleys of Ferlinghetti: A Biography by Neeli Cherkovski (Doubleday, 1979); manuscripts by writer Charles Plymell (1935- ); a poster of Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore; and other material.

Dates: circa 1950s

Gene Fowler manuscript

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0011
Abstract

Revised galley proofs of Fowler's (1890-1960) biographical novel, Good Night, Sweet Prince (Viking, 1954), based on the life of actor John Barrymore.

Dates: 1950s

Helen Addison Howard Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0174
Abstract

Typescript and galleys of Howard's American Indian Poetry (Twayne, 1979). Howard received an M.A. from USC in 1933.

Dates: 1979