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Arthur Meeker, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Meeker
Abstract

Correspondence, personal materials, works, and photographs of Chicago author Arthur Meeker, Jr.

Dates: approximately 1850-1972; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945

Dorothy Dow Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dow
Abstract Correspondence to Illinois poet and writer Dorothy Dow from poet Edgar Lee Masters, muralist John Warner Norton and other writers and friends, and a large collection of Dow’s works, which includes her vast output of poems, both published and mostly unpublished, some plays, short stories, a novel and several literary studies. Also, an informal autobiography and parts of an early episodic diary, a few photographs, scrapbooks and notebooks containing clippings, drafts and notes relating to her...
Dates: 1920-1993

Floyd Dell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dell
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Floyd Dell, novelist, poet, playwright, newspaperman, literary editor and social and political critic.

Dates: 1908-1969

Fredrika Shumway Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SmithFS
Abstract

Book drafts, illustrations, and publicity about the children's and young adult books, stories, and verse written by Fredrika Shumway Smith, wife of banker and Northern Trust president Solomon A. Smith.

Dates: 1941-1967

Gladys Fornell Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fornell
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, and photographs from writer and editor Gladys Fornell. Includes drafts of short stories, poetry, stage plays, and her unpublished novel “Montel.” Also includes genealogical material about the Fornell family and the immigration of ancestor Nils Fornell from Sweden to Wisconsin in 1868.

Dates: 1938-1982

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

James T. Farrell-Cleo Paturis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Farrell-Paturis
Abstract Stories, articles, manuscript and photocopy drafts and notes by Farrell; a small collection of Farrell correspondence; miscellaneous material including reviews and appreciations of Farrell’s work; photographs of Farrell, Paturis, friends and occasions; and many audiocassettes of Farrell lectures, speeches and interviews. Paturis material includes several drafts of her unpublished memoir of her life with Farrell, a synopsis of his work, correspondence dating mainly after Farrell’s death in...
Dates: 1909-2006; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

Leander Troy-James T. Farrell papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Troy-Farr
Abstract

Materials by and about James T. Farrell, collected by his friend, Rev. Leander Troy, including published and unpublished articles, columns, reviews and stories, together with copies of letters to Farrell from such individuals as Russell Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson and Adlai E. Stevenson, plus notes, obituaries and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1932-2004

Ralph Korngold papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Korngold
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and personal items relating to the life and work of Socialist journalist and historical biographer Ralph Korngold.

Dates: 1867-1994; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1964

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Names
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 2
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Austin, Mary 1
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Babb, Sanora 1
Baker, Russell, 1925-2019 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
Cave, Eldon 1
Chicago Daily Socialist 1
Christopher Publishing House 1
Conroy, Gladys 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Cook, George Cram, 1873-1924 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Currey, Margery 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dillon, George, 1906-1968 1
Dow, Dorothy, 1903-1989 1
Draper, Louis H., 1935-2002 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 1
Fallon, Lawrence 1
Fertik, Irene 1
Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 1
Fornell family 1
Fornell, Gladys, 1904-1982 1
Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965 1
Germer, Adolph 1
Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978 1
Hagglund, Ben, 1908- 1
Hazlett, Carolee 1
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 1
Johnson, Curt, 1928-2008 1
Johnson, Fridolf 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Korngold, Piri 1
Korngold, Ralph, 1882-1964 1
Krementz, Jill 1
Lancaster, Elizabeth 1
Le Sueur, Meridel 1
Lewis, H. H., 1901- 1
Lieber, Maxim, 1897-1993 1
Light, James F. 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 1
McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1866-1946 1
Meeker, Arthur, 1902-1971 1
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 1
Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Mosser, Charles 1
Nicolson, J. U. (John Urban), 1885-1944 1
Norton, John Warner, 1876-1934 1
Orbaan, Albert 1
Pargellis, Stanley, 1898-1968 1
Paturis, Cleo, -2010 1
Porter, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1908-2002 1
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 1
Price, Emerson 1
Princeton University Press 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Reed, John, 1887-1920 1
Rogers, John, 1907- 1
Rowland, Neal 1
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007 1
Schorer, Mark, 1908-1977 1
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 1
Smith, Datus C. (Datus Clifford), 1907-1999 1
Smith, Fredrika Shumway 1
Snow, Walter, 1905-1973 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Stone, Irving, 1903-1989 1
Stracke, Win, 1908-1991 1
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 1
Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961 1
Troy, Leander 1
United States. Works Progress Administration 1
Vonnegut, Kurt 1
Vosburgh, Leonard, 1912-1998 1
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 1
Wharton, Walter William 1
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 1
Wixson, Douglas C. 1
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 1
Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois 1
Yaddo (Artists' colony) 1
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