Dramatists

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Labor organizer and author. Subject Files (1935-1995) which include newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and original correspondence relating to Jaffe's stint as an organizer for the Workers Alliance in depression-era Oklahoma. This collection also includes the following published and unpublished writings: "Ten Brave Years" a ten year history of The Albert Einstein College of Medicine; "One Act Plays" a bound collection of plays; "Short Stories" a bound collection of stories based on Jaffe's Oklahoma experiences; "The Iron Room" an original three-act play based on Jaffe's four month imprisonment in the Oklahoma County jail; and "Daisyfresh" an original screenplay.

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Typescripts (1931-1954) of plays by Oklahoma playwright Lynn Riggs, and articles (1988-1993) regarding the works of Lynn Riggs, collected by a Lynn Riggs fan, Robert Shawn Riley. The collection also includes a finding aid to the Lynn Riggs Papers at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, and correspondence (1995-1998) of Rob Riley regarding research materials on Lynn Riggs, and photocopied sheet music by Lynn Riggs.

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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.