Alfred Kazin collection of papers, 1933-1990 bulk (1933-1978).

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Creator

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-

Location

Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Extent

• 1,207 items.

Scope/Contents Notes

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, journals kept from 1933 to 1990, and portrait photographs. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, drafts of novels, essays, shortstories, and notes for work by the author, as well as excerpts from a transcript containing the testimony of Alfred Kazin and Malcolm Cowley in a case against Grove Press, Inc. The correspondence, dating from [1962] to 1978includes letters from the author to Herbert Gold, Harry Levin, Muriel Rukeyser, and Louis Untermeyer. Also presentare letters relating to the author, dating from 1941 to 1980, between various correspondents, including Carson McCullers, Herbert Mitgang, John Dos Passos, and others.

There are letters to Kazin from Hannah Arendt, Atlantic Monthly Press, Saul Bellow, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Burnshaw, Truman Capote, Peter Davison, Lucy Dawidowicz, David Leo Diamond, Leon Edel, George P. Elliott, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, Robert Flint, Herbert Gold, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., Josephine Herbst, Edward Hoagland, Irving Howe, Randall Jarrell, Howard Jones, JackKerouac, Elinor Langer, Bernard Malamud, Francis O. Matthiessen, Carson McCullers, Herbert Mitgang, Lewis Mumford, Sylvia Plath, Laura Riding, Harold Rosenberg, Isaac Rosenfeld, Philip Roth, Upton Sinclair, Francis Steegmuller, John Updike, Mark Van Doren, John Wain, Eudora Welty, Edmund Wilson, Jose Yglesias, and others, dating from 1937 to 1990.

Biographical/Historical Note

Alfred Kazin was an American essayist, literary critic, and historian.

Controlled Access Terms

• Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
• Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 -- Portraits.
• Correspondence.

Additional Creator Names

• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
• Bellow, Saul.
• Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
• Burnshaw, Stanley, 1906-2005.
• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
• Davison, Peter.
• Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
• Diamond, David, 1915-2005.
• Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
• Edel, Leon, 1907-1997.
• Elliott, George P., 1918-1980.
• Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979.
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
• Flint, Robert.
• Gold, Herbert, 1924-
• Herbst, Josephine, 1892-1969.
• Hoagland, Edward.
• Howe, Irving.
• Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
• Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980.
• Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
• Langer, Elinor, 1939-
• Levin, Harry, 1912-
• McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
• Malamud, Bernard.
• Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950.
• Mitgang, Herbert.
• Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
• Plath, Sylvia.
• Riding, Laura, 1901-1991.
• Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978.
• Rosenfeld, Isaac, 1918-1956.
• Roth, Philip.
• Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
• Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
• Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-
• Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977.
• Updike, John.
• Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972.
• Wain, John.
• Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
• Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
• Yglesias, Jose.