The Walter O. Evans Collection of James Baldwin is comprised of a typescript draft of Baldwin's Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and correspondence sent from Baldwin to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from 1953 to 1987. In his letters Baldwin discusses his writing projects and personal life (ranging from his relationships to his experience living abroad in France and Turkey). Baldwin also reflects on his experience at the MacDowell Colony where he was in residence while working on his novel Giovanni's Room. The correspondence constitutes a window into Baldwin's creative process and life during this period.
Description:
Captions devised by cataloger. Letters dated using postage marks on accompanying envelopes. and Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations
Subject (Name):
Garin-Painter, Mary
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, African American authors--France--Paris., African American civil rights workers, African Americans--Civil rights--20th century., American literature--France--Paris., Americans--Turkey--Istanbul--Intellectual life., Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Turkey--Istanbul., Expatriate artists--France--Paris, and LGBTQ resource
Collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers. Correspondence consists of letters to Dunan from writers, editors, friends, and others including Louis Artus, Jean Bouchary, Rodolphe Bringer, André Coeuroy, Paul Louis Couchoud, Henry D. Davray, Pierre Dominique, Gustave Geffroy, Henri Guilac, Maurice Hamel, Charles Hennebois, René Jouglet, René Kieffer, Albert Lantoine, Paul Laffitte, René Maran, Victor Margueritte, Jacques Natanson, Pierre Rives, Edmond Rocher, Guillermo de Torre, and Octave Uzanne. Writings consists of numerous short drafts, corrected. Other papers include a small quantity of clippings, financial records, manuscript fragments, and printed ephemera.
Description:
Purchased from Les Amazones on the Edith and Richard French Fund, 2009. and Renée Dunan, French author and poet.
Includes one folder of telegrams to Brodsky in Kirchstetten in 1972 and one folder of telegrams congratulating Brodsky on his Nobel Prize in 1987.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Includes a photocopy of a draft of Brodsky's poem "This is a letter from Harris."
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Authors--United States--21st century, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, Poets--United States--20th Century, and Poets--United States--21st Century
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives