Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.

Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.

Brandt & Brandt.

Literary agency. Collection contains correspondence files for three American authors: Samuel Hopkins Adams, John Gunther, and Harry Hopkins.

Burlingame family.

Correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1856-1967); legal and financial records; memorabilia, including address books, clippings, genealogical records, and photographs; and writings, mostly of Roger Burlingame, including manuscript and/or published articles, books, book reviews, diaries, poems, short stories, and speeches. Family members represented include Anson Burlingame (1820-1870), a politician and diplomat; Edward L. Burlingame (1848-1922), author and editor; William Roger Burlingame (1889-1967), author, biographer, and novelist; and his wife, Angeline Whiton (d. 1967), a literary agent, known professionally as Ann Watkins. Notable correspondents include authors, poets, artists, etc.

Bergé, Carol, 1928-

Papers of the American poet. Holograph and typescript notes and drafts of 21 poems.

Brossard, Chandler, 1922-1993.

Papers of the American novelist, playwright, editor, and teacher. Correspondence and memorabilia as well as manuscripts, drafts, typescripts, and production material for Brossard's numerous novels, short stories, essays and plays. Correspondents include Alice Adams, Donald Allen, Malcolm Bradbury, Kent Carroll, Noam Chomsky, Wheeler Dixon, Guy Daniels, Joe Flaherty, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Seymour Krim, James Laughlin, Ron Padgett, Charles Plymell, William Shawn, Gilbert Sorrentino, and others.

Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 1861-1920.

Papers of the American author, priest. Four items of correspondence, including a letter from the mayor of New York City thanking Brady for his participation in planning the "visit of the Missions".

Bullins, Ed

Typscripts of various plays, published and unpublished.

Bowden, Edwin T.

Bowden, American literary historian and biographer. Correspondence, a small amount of writing and memorabilia relating to his bibliography of De Vries, the comic novelist and New Yorker editor.

Brooks, George Sprague, b. 1895.

Memorabilia from Brooks' months as an American soldier and student at the University of Poitiers. Brooks was one of 249 American soldiers -- both officers and enlisted men -- who briefly attended the University of Poitiers (halfway between Paris and Bordeaux) as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front. All but one item date from 1918-1920.

Blackwell, Harriet (Gray)

Papers of the American author and poet. Collection includes biographical material, correspondence, writings, and memorabilia.

Barolini, Helen, 1925-

Papers of the multiple award-winning Italian-American novelist and writer. Collection includes resume, typescripts of various writings, clippings, unpublished material, audio interview, correspondence, typescripts of speeches, and two theses with Barolini's work as the subject.

Bryant, Helen

Four issues of The New Magazine of Rockland County containing articles, essays or poems by Bryant.

Bolotowsky, Ilya, 1907-1981.

Russian-American abstract painter and playwright. Collection contains typescripts for five plays.

Bacheller, Irving, 1859-1950.

Memorabilia relating to a luncheon Bacheller attended at New York's Century Association in 1944.

Brick, John.

Papers of the American novelist, author (1922-1973). Correspondence, primarily in connection with the Author's Guild; manuscript novels and stories; galley proofs; photographs, and printed material, including articles and newspaper clippings by and about Brick. Manuscripts for novels Borne on the wind, Panther Mountain, Richmond Raid, Rogue's Kingdom, The Strong Men, and The Tyger.

Bercovici, Konrad, 1882-1961.

Romanian-born American author. Manuscripts, memorabilia and correspondence.

Brown, Leonard Stanley

Writings and memorabilia of Syracuse University English professor and critical theorist Leonard Brown (1904-1960).

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.

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.

Bogner, Norman, 1935-

Papers of the American novelist, author. Includes writings (drafts, manuscripts, and galleys of novels, plays and screen plays), and memorabilia.

Barck, Oscar Theodore, Jr., 1902-1993.

Collection of printed engravings, bank drafts, receipts, correspondence, newspapers, and road commissions from the Revolutionary War period (1775-1783) and beyond focusing on New York State.