White, William Allen, 1868-1944
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1868 - 1944
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Alice French papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thanet
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, clippings and other miscellaneous material relating to Alice French, author of short stories, novels and essays, who wrote under the pseudonym Octave Thanet.
Dates:
1871-1934
Henry Kitchell Webster papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Webster
Abstract
Correspondence and drafts and typescripts of works of Illinois novelist and short story writer, Henry Kitchell Webster, an Evanston native who had a highly successful literary career in the early decades of the twentieth century. Includes examples of the range of Webster’s published writings as well as extensive correspondence with literary agents and publishers, family, friends, fans, businesses and organizations. Also, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, and one box of genealogical...
Dates:
1880-1932; Majority of material found within 1900-1932
William Allen White letters
Collection
Identifier: Case-f E5.W58213
Abstract
Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. Includes letters first to Mr. Way and later to Chauncey Williams, of Chicago publisher Way and Williams, regarding the publication and sale of White's The Real Issue: A Book of Kansas Stories.
Dates:
1896-1898
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
- American fiction -- Women authors 1
- American literature -- Illinois -- Evanston 1
- Authors, American -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
- Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
- Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
- Hack writers 1
- Literary agents -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Arkansas 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Iowa 1
- Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
- Publishers and publishing -- Correspondence 1
- Regionalism in literature 1
- Screenwriters -- United States 1
- Serialized fiction -- United States 1
- Short stories, American -- Women authors 1
- Women authors, American -- Middle West 1
- Women authors, American -- Southern States 1
- Women in the book industries and trade 1 + ∧ less
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