World Literature Today Collection
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
- Creation: 1926-2003
Restrictions on Access
On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.
Available for public access.
Extent
41.66 Cubic Feet (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.
Subject
- Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949 (Person)
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 (Person)
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 (Person)
- Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973 (Person)
- Bishop, Morris, 1893-1973 (Person)
- Graf, Oskar Maria, 1894-1967 (Person)
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 (Person)
- Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 (Person)
- Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 (Person)
- Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961 (Person)
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 (Person)
- Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 (Person)
- Cross, George Lynn (Person)
- Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982 (Person)
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 (Person)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951 (Person)
- Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967 (Person)
- Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984 (Person)
- House, Roy Temple, 1878-1963 (Person)
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 (Person)
- Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 (Person)
- Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966 (Person)
- James, Marquis, 1891-1955 (Person)
- Kaufman, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Carlyle), 1887-1945 (Person)
- Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 (Person)
- Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970 (Person)
- Lottinville, Savoie, 1906-1997 (Person)
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 (Person)
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 (Person)
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (Person)
- Moorhead, Max L. (Person)
- Müller, Gustav Emil, 1898-1987 (Person)
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 (Person)
- Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 (Person)
- Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963 (Person)
- Pollock, Channing, 1880-1946 (Person)
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 (Person)
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (Person)
- Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950 (Person)
- Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974 (Person)
- Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (Person)
- Rice, Elroy L. (Elroy Leon), 1917-2000 (Person)
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 (Person)
- Strasser, Otto, 1897-1974 (Person)
- Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 (Person)
- Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 (Person)
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944 (Person)
- Wilder, Thornton (Thornton Niven), 1897-1975 (Person)
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (Person)
- Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939 (Person)
- Wiechert, Ernst, 1887-1950 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th Century
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Displacement of intelligentsia
Topical
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
