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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

Edith Franklin Wyatt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wyatt
Abstract

Correspondence of Chicago writer and social activist Edith Franklin Wyatt, plus drafts of works, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings and mementos.

Dates: 1894-1968; Majority of material found within 1894 - 1955

Jack Conroy papers

 Collection
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

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Authors, American -- 20th century 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
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German 1
 
Names
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
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Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Caylor, Rose 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Daland, Katharine 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Fairbank, Janet Ayer, 1878-1951 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hecht family 1
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 1
Howells, Mildred, 1872-1966 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 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
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lenya, Lotte 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956 1
Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953 1
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
McClure's Magazine 1
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 1
Price, Emerson 1
Rogers, John, 1907- 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Rowland, Neal 1
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 1
Simon and Schuster, Inc. 1
Snow, Walter, 1905-1973 1
Stracke, Win, 1908-1991 1
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 1
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 1
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012 1
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950 1
Wharton, Walter William 1
Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939 1
Wixson, Douglas C. 1
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 1
Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois 1
Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958 1
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