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Nicholas Beck collection on Budd Schulberg
Collection
Identifier: 6136
Abstract
The Nicholas Beck collection on Budd Schulberg consists of material relating to Budd Schulberg (1914-2009)--the American screenwriter, television producer, and novelist--collected by Nicholas Beck (1932-2017). The collection includes material on Budd Schulberg's life, family, and works; the Watts Writers Workshop -- a creative writing group initiated by Budd Schulberg following the 1965 Watts Riots; correspondence between Beck and Schulberg's extended family; archival documents by and about...
Dates:
1913 - 2017
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Bob Wade papers
Collection
Identifier: 6149
Content Description
The Robert A. Wade papers document Wade's career writing noir mysteries with his partner H. BIll Miller (who died in 1961) until Wade's death in 2012. THe collection inculdes personal and business correspondence, diaries, first editions of their books, ledgers, typescripts, draft manuscripts, hand-corrected galley proofs, dust jackets, scrapbooks, magazines, newspaper clippings, notecards, and rejection and fan letters.
Dates:
1938 - 2010
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
J.E. Woodhead papers
Collection
Identifier: 0004
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks of Woodhead's business and manufacturing career with the Lamb Knitting Machine Company; records of the Cosmic Publishing Company and the Western Society for Psychical Research; correspondence on the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago; correspondence, indexes, catalogues, dealers' invoices pertaining to the John Edward Woodhead Library, parts of which were acquired by USC; and personal correspondence, photographs, and memorablia of the Woodhead...
Dates:
circa 1856-1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections