Creator:
Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982
Inclusive Dates:
1906- 1980
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, lecturer, novelist, and literary critic. Correspondence, 1929-80, with Harriette Arnow, Newton Arvin, Van Wyck Brooks, Baker Bromell, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Cantwell, Robert Gorham Davis, Henry Christman, George Cole, James T. Farrell, Joseph Freeman, Herbert Gold, Corliss Lamont, Lucy Robbins Lang, John Lydenburg, Georgia McKinley, Fulmer Mood, Walter Ripton Morris, Wright Morris, Richard Rovere, Evelyn Scott, Lincoln Steffins, and Ella Winter, among others. Also correspondence and editorial reader's reports for Macmillan Publishing Company. Writings include articles, book manuscripts, a journal (1942-1973), lectures, as well as research notes, correspondence, and memorabilia relating to the production of Hicks' biography of John Reed.
Large collection of printed material includes book reviews, clippings, and an assortment of Leftist pamphlets and periodicals from the 1930s.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Book reviews.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Diaries.
Lectures.
Manuscripts for publication.
Pamphlets.
Periodicals.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New leader (New York, N.Y.)
New masses.
Saturday review.
Biographers.
Critics.
Novelists.
Radicalism
Biography
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American.
Biographers -- Authorship.
City and town life -- United States.
Communism -- United States.
Communism and education.
Communism and intellectuals.
Community life.
Critics -- United States
Literary historians.
Literary quarrels.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Novelists, American.
Publishers and publishing.
Radicalism -- United States.
Creator:
Robbins, Jack Alan.
Inclusive Dates:
1982- 1982
Abstract:
Manuscript of Robbins' book, Marxism and the Humanist Perspective, which is in part about Granville Hicks.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Marxism and the humanist perspective.
Authors.
Critics.
Radicalism
Politics, government and public administration
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American.
Biographers -- Authorship.
Communism -- United States.
Communism and intellectuals.
Critics -- United States
Literature -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Radicalism -- United States.
Creator:
Hamburg, Shirley
Inclusive Dates:
1965- 2016
Abstract:
Research files pertaining to various
social justice movements Hamburg was involved in and passionate about
Type of Material:
Agendas (administrative records)
Announcements.
Articles.
Brochures.
Bulletins.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Conference proceedings.
Correspondence.
Electronic mail.
Fliers (printed matter)
Handbills.
Newsletters.
Newspapers.
Pamphlets.
Programs (documents)
Quarterlies (publications)
Reports.
Research notes.
Subject:
Oakland (Calif.)
Activism and social reform
Abortion.
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Anti-apartheid movements -- United States.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Civil rights and socialism.
Communists -- United States.
Decolonization -- Africa.
Economic sanctions, American -- Iraq.
Feminism -- United States.
Gay rights movement -- United States.
Indian activists -- United States.
Jewish socialists.
Jewish women -- Political activity.
Latin America -- Foreign Relations -- United States.
Marxist criticism.
Mass incarceration -- United States.
Political activists -- United States.
Public interest lobbying.
Socialism -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Water -- Pollution.
Women social reformers -- United States.
Women's rights -- United States.