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Authors, American -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Carol M. Newman, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1978-004
Abstract This collection contains the papers of Carol Montgomery Newman, Jr., a graduate of Virginia Tech (BS in biology, 1931), writer and editor for The New Yorker (1949-1972), and Virginia Tech Department of English faculty member (1934-1949, 1972-1975). Includes correspondence relating to The New Yorker, including letters and notes from Charles Addams, Louis Auchincloss, S.J. Perelman, J. D. Salinger, and William Shawn; other...
Dates: 1930 - 1987

Beatrice Kean Seymour Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-011
Abstract

Beatrice Kean Seymour (1886-1955) was a British author. The collection consists of the original manuscript of her novel The Happier Eden (1937) and two letters.

Dates: 1936 - 1939

Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-020
Abstract

This collection contains several series of materials: correspondence to and from Sherwood Anderson, correspondence and research files about Sherwood Anderson, and a small group of photographs, audio, video, and graphic art materials. Materials generated by Anderson date from 1918-1940. Other materials date from about 1929-2006.

Dates: 1918-2006, n.d.

Tiffany Trent Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-026
Abstract

This collection contains materials from author Tiffany Trent, including unpublished manuscripts, drafts, personal papers, and correspondence from 1996-2018.

Dates: 1996 - 2018

Nancy Byrd Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-009
Abstract

This collection includes correspondence, newsclippings, poems, and notes assembled by Beverly Carper Powley for a biographical article on Nancy Byrd Turner, a Virginia poet.

Dates: 1930 - 1988

William Allen White Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1973-003
Abstract

The collection consists of a brief letter to William Allen White on December 2, 1920, from Mary Ethel McAuley of The Wanderer of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, with White's response on the same letter.

Dates: 1920

Owen Wister Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-013
Abstract

The Owen Wister Papers consist of a poem, "King's Cap," by Wister with his signature and notes, and four letters.

Dates: 1900, 1925, n.d.