Douglas C. Wixson-Jack Conroy research collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence, research files and works, mostly relating to Jack Conroy and his literary circle.
The majority of correspondence, research files, and subject in the papers is related to Wixson’s research for his works on Jack Conroy. It includes incoming and outgoing letters, clippings, reviews, and other information about a subject or individual that was gathered for Wixson’s book Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994). Some items were also created or collected by Conroy, and kept by Wixson for research purposes. To the extent possible, those items were separated and interfiled into the existing Jack Conroy Papers.
Also included are other works of Wixson’s, and promotional material about the publications of all of his works.
Dates
- Creation: 1968-2001
Creator
- Wixson, Douglas C. (Person)
Language
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The Douglas C. Wixson-Jack Conroy research collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Douglas C. Wixson-Jack Conroy research collection is the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections at reference@newberry.org.
Biography of Douglas C. Wixson
American author, literary critic, and editor.
Douglas Wixson was born August 9, 1933 and held various teaching positions in the United States and in France before becoming a Professor of English at University of Missouri-Rolla in 1976. Around that time, he and author Jack Conroy became friends and sometime collaborators. Later in Conroy’s life, Wixson kept close ties to Conroy’s family and his caretaker, Carolee Hazlett. Wixson was also Jack Conroy’s literary executor and was responsible for the transfer of the Conroy Papers to the Newberry Library. Wixson retired to Austin, Texas, and died on May 26, 2017.
Extent
3.3 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Abstract
Correspondence, research files and works from American writer and literary critic Douglas C. Wixson. Materials are mostly relating to author Jack Conroy (1898-1990) and his literary circle.
Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1977-2001
- Boxes 1-2
- Series 2: Research and Correspondence files, 1967-2000
- Boxes 3-5
- Series 3: Subject Files, 1968-1999
- Boxes 6-7
- Series 4: Works, 1982-2001
- Box 8
Collection Stack Location
1 36 6
Provenance
Gift of Douglas C. Wixson, 2008-2014.
Processed by
Alison Hinderliter, 2020.
Subject
- Wixson, Douglas C. (Person)
- Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 (Person)
- Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 (Person)
- Title
- Inventory of the Douglas C. Wixson-Jack Conroy research collection, 1968-2001
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Alison Hinderliter
- Date
- ©2020.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
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