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Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Eunice Tietjens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tietjens
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer and associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The bulk of the correspondence is incoming.

Dates: 1898-1944

Fanny Butcher papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Butcher
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the life and work of Chicago literary critic and author, Fanny Butcher.

Dates: 1830-1984; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1984

Jack Conroy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conroy
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of American novelist, folklorist, and editor Jack Conroy. Conroy's novel The Disinherited, published in 1933, is considered a classic in proletarian literature and depicted in gritty detail the realities of the Great Depression. Conroy also edited radical journals The Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil.

Dates: 1864-1991

Ring Lardner papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lardner
Abstract

Correspondence and writings of journalist and humorist author Ring Lardner. Also estate papers, including royalty records through 2003, biographical materials, publicity and reviews, adaptations of writings, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1805-2003; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1987

Wallace Rice Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract

Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.

Dates: 1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 2
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 2
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
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Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
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Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 1
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Bayes, Nora, 1880-1928 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Bell Syndicate, Inc. 1
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 1
Bispham, David, 1857-1921 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Brice, Fanny 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher), 1843-1913 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 1
Carr, Michael Carmichael, 1881-1929 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Caylor, Rose 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Tribune (Firm) 1
Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942 1
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 1
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Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Corbett, Jim, 1875-1955 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Creel, George, 1876-1953 1
Currey, Margery 1
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 1
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 1
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 1
Filsinger, Ernst B. (Ernst Balthasar), 1880-1937 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Gillette, William, 1853-1937 1
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 1
Hammond, Idea 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Head, Cloyd 1
Hecht family 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Henderson, Alice Corbin, 1881-1949 1
Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938 1
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 1
Irgun tseva'i le'umi 1
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Kogan, Herman 1
Kook, Hillel, 1915-2001 1
Kroch, Adolph, 1882- 1
Lardner family 1
Lardner, Ellis Abbott, 1887-1960 1
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 1915-2000 1
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 1
Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lenya, Lotte 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
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