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Authors, American

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Harrison Griswold Dwight (AC 1898) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00012
Abstract

Correspondence, printed articles, manuscripts, notebooks, diaries, family photographs, and notes covering the life of Harrison Griswold Dwight, author and Amherst graduate. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters to Dwight from friends and publishers covering a period from 1897 to 1959. These include a number of letters from well-known persons ranging from Willa Cather to Eleanor Roosevelt.

Dates: 1890-1959

Louise Bogan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00085
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, manuscript drafts of both published and unpublished poems, prose, short stories, and translations, lectures, teaching notes, news clippings, journals and notebooks documenting Bogan's career as poet, translator, critic, teacher and editor from 1930 until her death in 1970. Documentation of her personal affairs includes family items, diaries, awards and honors, contracts with publishers, copyrights, financial records, photographs, and material...
Dates: 1930-1970

William E. Barton Collection of Walt Whitman Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MA.01012
Abstract

The collection contains assorted Whitman manuscripts, portraits, and various printed material, collected by William E. Barton. The collection also contains Barton's research notes, transcriptions, and correspondence.

Dates: 1850-1899