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Authors, American -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Orson Scott Card papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1756
Scope and Contents

Literary papers, including manuscripts of published and unpublished works (novels, short stories, plays, poetry, nonfiction). Also included are works of other authors that Card has commented on, correspondence, and personal papers. Also included are scripts and other materials pertaining to the production of the 1989 motion picture The abyss (directed by James Cameron), which Card used to write the novel of the same name.

Dates: 1966-2011

House of Short

 File — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1569
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typed discourses, testimonies, and other commentary by Dennis Short. He states his disagreemnents with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith, and other church leaders, as well as thoughts on gun ownership. Documents are titled House of Short. Dated approximately 1970-1979.

Dates: approximately 1970-1979

Cynthia Lindsay papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1552
Scope and Contents

Contains papers documenting Cynthia Lindsay's writing career including handwritten and published manuscripts, screenplays, research materials, including audio recordings, reader and publisher correspondence, contracts, publicity clippings, and book reviews. The book "Dear Boris" comprises the majority of the material related to the development of her books. Materials dated approximately 1947 to 1978.

Dates: 1947-1978

Merlo J. Pusey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1532
Scope and Contents Contains Pusey's personal and professional papers, primarily related to his career as an editorialist and associate editor for the Washington Post and a biographer. These materials include his correspondence, his research notes for books on the Supreme Court, Charles Evan Hughes, and Eisenhower's presidential administration, as well as an edited typescript copy of Reed Smoot's diaries. Also included are editorials, press releases and newspaper articles written or collected by Pusey and the...
Dates: approximately 1875-1985

Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents Autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the materials were donated by Fred Rosenstock to Brigham Young University, but some were acquired from different sources. Many of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collins, Colorado.Contains autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an...
Dates: 1800-1950

Madeleine B. Stern papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1486
Abstract The collection consists of Stern’s research and manuscript files including correspondence, photographs and photocopies, research notes, drafts and proofs, periodicals, etc., documenting her career between 1944 and 1998 as a biographer of assorted figures and aspects of 19th century American life and literature, most notably Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, feminists, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology and its founders, etc. It contains original manuscripts and printer’s proofs of such works as...
Dates: 1944-1998

P. Bradford Westwood photographs of Lloyd Alexander

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239115204]
Identifier: MSS 2077
Scope and Contents

Four 4 x 6 inch color photographs of children's Lloyd Alexander, taken in his home office in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania in 1998. The photographs were taken by Brad Westwood, Special Collections employee at Brigham Young University, while he was visiting Lloyd Alexander and seeking donation of Alexander's papers to the University.

Dates: 1998

Joe Wheeler collection on Zane Grey

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7641
Scope and Contents

Joe Wheeler collection of Zane Grey materials include manuscripts, articles, diaries, correspondence, serials, ephemera, newspapers, plays, photographs, negatives, and other materials by, about, or related to Zane Grey, the Grey family, Joe Wheeler, Zane Grey's West Society, or western life and culture. Dated approximately 1910-1989.

Dates: 1910-1989