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
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Contents:
Fritz Brinzer and wife;
Kenneth MacLeish;
Christian Bérard;
Jean-Pierre Brasseur;
Janet Flanner;
Jared French;
Ruth Ford and MW;
David Herbert;
David Leavitt, Hal Wilmeth, Anna and
Giulio Caparella;
Grace Moore, W. Somerset Maugham,
Josephine Crane, and GW;
Raymond Mortimer;
George Montgomery;
Wilbur Pippin;
Christian William Miller;
Elly Ney [clipping];
Patrick O'Higgins;
Ralph Pomeroy;
Katherine Anne Porter with GPL,
GW, and MW;
Charles Rain;
Dick Sisson;
Deborah Wescott Clark;
Lloyd Wescott, Edward James, and Dick
Sisson;
Jérome Sutter;
Pavel Tchelitchew;
Philip Lamantia, Pavel Tchelitchew
and Parker Tyler;
Pavel Tchelitchew, Charles Henri Ford,
and MW;
Emmy Winthrop;
John Yeon, Barbara Wescott, and MW.
Description:
Entire "T" section of album digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Wellfleet (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Ford, Charles Henri, Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005, Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957, Tyler, Parker, and Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-1988
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives