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This collection consists of the papers of Frank MacShane, author and editor, and Professor in the Writing Program at Columbia University.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank MacShane Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Deposit, 1972. Converted to gift, 2023.
Frank MacShane (1927-1999) was a literary biographer who specialized in applying the highest standards of criticism to popular novelists like Raymond Chandler and John O'Hara who had been ignored by other academic critics.
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Folders include: Chronicle, Jones Interviews (comments), Robinson Argus, Hawaii, London, California, Letters duplicates, research materials on James Jones (manuscripts and correspondence)
Mr. and Mrs. James Jones-Person to Person, 1958-01-10, 1 reel to reel audio tape
James Jones Interview, 1975-12-03, 1 audiocassette
Focus on James Jones, a celebrated author exposes Man's destructive instincts, 1 audiocassette
Research materials (mostly reproductions from the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin): West Indies, Trip with Irwin Shaw, Unpublished Short Story, Thin Red Line, A Touch of Danger, From Here to Eternity.
Correspondence about book and Jones, mostly outreach mail to people who know about James Jones
Folders include: Paul Jenkins' Broken Prisms catalog, 1983; Statements on writing; Bill Styron; Some Came Running (Film); Irwin Shaw; Reception of Eternity; Scribner File; Maxwell Perkins and Burroughs Mitchell (Scribner).
U.S. Army Notes, book manuscript preface and acknowledgments, and notes sections of the book), chronology note cards
The Pistol, Poker, press cuttings, reading, mailer, Merry Month of the Day, Music, National Book Award, New York, Paris and Travel, Obituaries and after, Poems including erotic, letters, Maggio Trial
Lowney Handy, F.M. Letters, Jeff Jones, Mary Ann Jones, Long Island, Hawaii, James Jones Interviews (mostly articles), Paul Jenkins
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99% photocopies, a few originals
99% photocopies, a few originals
Includes Martini Man drawing
Photocopies
index cards in box
Three folders
Mostly letters to Jessica Tyndale, some others as well
Loose index cards
Translation Center and personal