World Literature Today Collection
Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1897
Scope and Contents
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Literary journal. Correspondence (1926-2003) between the journal's directors, and University of Oklahoma administrators and faculty, and with authors and prospective authors, regarding the journal's operation, publishing procedures and standards, and works published. Also included are files (1926-1951) regarding the exodus of authors and playwrights from Nazi Germany and Spain to the United States and Mexico.
Dates
- 1926-2003
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
41.66 ft. (41.66 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Dr. W.A. Willibrand.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Correspondence: Source of acquisition--Willibrand, Dr. W.A. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1956.
- Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
- Authors Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Authors, American Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948
- Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973
- Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
- Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968
- Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987
- Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989
- Cross, George Lynn
- Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
- Dramatists Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951
- Fascism and literature Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967
- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Graf, Oskar Maria, 1894-1967
- Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984
- House, Roy Temple, 1878-1963
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968
- Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966
- James, Marquis, 1891-1955
- Kaufman, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Carlyle), 1887-1945
- Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
- Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970
- Literary prizes -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Literature Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lottinville, Savoie, 1906-1997
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
- Moorhead, Max L.
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
- Müller, Gustav Emil, 1898-1987
- National socialism and literature Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977
- Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
- Pollock, Channing, 1880-1946
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950
- Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
- Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957
- Rice, Elroy L. (Elroy Leon), 1917-2000
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Displacement of intelligentsia Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Strasser, Otto, 1897-1974
- University press publications -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
- Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944
- Wiechert, Ernst, 1887-1950
- Wilder, Thornton (Thornton Niven), 1897-1975
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
- Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939
- Women authors Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women dramatists Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Contact:
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
