Creator:
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
Inclusive Dates:
1927- 1968
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Songs (document genre)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
United States -- Race relations.
Authors.
Librarians.
Playwrights.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- Children's
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
African Americans
African-American arts.
African American dramatists.
African American librarians.
African American intellectuals.
African American novelists.
African American poets.
African American Seventh-Day Adventists.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Music.
African Americans in the performing arts.
American literature -- African American authors.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Children's literature -- Authorship.
Harlem Renaissance -- Archival resources.
Creator:
Di Prima, Diane.
Inclusive Dates:
1948- 1971
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet, author, and editor. Correspondence (1960-1971); diaries, playscripts and miscellaneous writings (1948-1966); and original manuscripts by others (Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Kirby Doyle, Robert Duncan, Anselm Hollo, Steve Jonas, LeRoi Jones, Allan Kaprow, Kenneth Koch, Joseph LeSueur, Ron Loewinsohn, Clive Matson, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Norman Solomon, Gilbert Sorrentino, A.B. Spellman, Mike Strong, James Waring, Philip Whalen, Jonathan Williams) submitted for publication in The floating bear.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Floating bear.
Authors.
Editors.
Poets.
Women Authors
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Bohemianism -- United States.
Italian Americans.
Literature, Experimental.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Periodicals Publishing -- United States.
Women authors, American.
Women poets, American.
Creator:
Grove Press.
Inclusive Dates:
1948- 1998
Abstract:
Papers of the American publishing house founded by Barney Rosset.
Collection contains a small amount of personal correspondence from owner Barney Rossett, but the majority consists of
files relating to the company's production of books,
Evergreen Review magazine, films and record albums. For any given title, this may
include contracts, correspondence, legal records, photographs, publicity material, reviews, royalty statements, and
production records. Notable authors represented in the collection include Emmanuelle Arsan, Alan Ayckbourn, Imamu
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Samuel Beckett, Eric Berne, Paul Bowles, James Broughton, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite
Duras, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Frank, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Girodias, Witold Gombrowicz, Juan Goytisolo,
Nat Hentoff, André Hodeir, Eugène Ionesco, Jack Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Frank O'Hara,
Charles Olson, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, George Reavey, John Rechy, Kenneth Rexroth, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michael
Rumaker, Hubert Selby, Gilbert Sorrentino, Amos Tutuola, Parker Tyler, Tomi Ungerer, Alan Watts, and others. There
are extensive legal records and clippings files relating to the censorship trials surrounding the American publication of D.H. Lawrence's
Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's
Tropic of Cancer.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Audiotapes.
Book reviews.
Books.
Catalogs (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Film stills.
Financial statements.
Galley proofs.
Legal files.
Manuscripts for publication.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Negatives (photographs)
Phonograph records.
Photographs.
Publishers' catalogs.
Royalty statements.
Scrapbooks.
Slides (photographs)
Subject:
Evergreen review.
Authors.
Editors.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Publishing, printing and book arts
Radicalism
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Authors, French.
Authors and publishers.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde cinema.
Beat generation -- Poetry.
Censorship -- United States -- Cases.
Censorship -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Obscenity (Law) -- United States.
Literature, Experimental.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Creator:
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
Inclusive Dates:
1957- 1968
Abstract:
Papers of the African-American author, music critic, novelist, playwright, poet, and social activist. Baraka was also editor of Yugen, a literary magazine, and co-editor, with Diane Di Prima, of The floating bear. Correspondence (1958-1965); Baraka's typescript and published writings, including articles, book manuscripts, book and music reviews, essays, playscripts, and poems; and Yugen records, including manuscripts and page proofs.
Yugen manuscripts include those of John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Bruce Boyd, William Burroughs, Paul Carroll, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg, Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Stephen Jonas, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Philip Lamantia, Ron Loewinsohn, Walter Lowenfels, Michael McClure, Edward Marshall, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, George Stanley, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, and William Carlos Williams.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Poems.
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Yugen.
Authors.
Editors.
Novelists.
Playwrights.
Poets.
African Americans
Literature -- American Fiction
Literature -- American Poetry
Radicalism
African American dramatists.
African American novelists.
African American poets.
African Americans -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Bohemianism.
Literature, Experimental.
Muslims, Black -- Biography.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States.