Jane Howard papers, 1930-1996
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0619
- Bib ID:
- 4079538 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Howard, Jane, 1935-1996
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 62 linear feet (150 boxes 6 card file boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, scrapbooks, audio tapes, datebooks and calendars, photographs, printed material, and memorabilia. Included are files relating to articles which she researched and wrote while on the staff of LIFE magazine, especially on popular figures in current literature and the arts. There are also research files and typescripts for her books: PLEASE TOUCH, A DIFFERENT WOMAN, and FAMILIES. Among the correspondents are: Paul Bowles, Agnes de Mille, Ken Kesey, and Hope Cooke Namgyal
ADDITION: Research files for FAMILIES & research files, typescripts, and note cards for MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE and unpublished manuscripts and related research files.
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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts
See also Box 53
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Boxes 106 - 109
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Boxes 111-129
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Boxes 130 - 132
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Boxes 138 - 141
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Boxes 142 - 143
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Alphabetically arranged cards in black metal box
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
- Series I: Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts
- Series II: Life Magazine Articles
- Series III: Books
- Subseries III.1: A Different Woman
- Subseries III.2: Families
- Subseries III.3: Please Touch
- Subseries III.4: Margaret Mead: A Life
- Series IV: Miscellaneous Files
- Series V: Note Cards
- Series VI: 1989 Addition
- Series VII: Correspondence
- Subseries VII.1: Cataloged Correspondence
- Subseries VII.2: Arranged (Alphabetically)
- Subseries VII.3: Arranged (Chronologically)
- Subseries VII.4: Arranged (Family)
- Series VIII: Writings
- Subseries VIII.1: Margaret Mead: A Life
- Subseries VIII.2: Families
- Subseries VIII.3: Please Touch
- Subseries VIII.4: A Different Woman
- Subseries VIII.5: Lost In The Interior, a work in progress
- Subseries VIII.6: Unpublished Manuscript
- Subseries VIII.7: Life Magazine
- Subseries VIII.8: Lear's Magazine
- Subseries VIII.9: Freelance Writings
- Subseries VIII.10: Miscellaneous Writings
- Subseries VIII.11: Speeches
- Series IX: Teaching Materials
- Subseries IX.1: Columbia University
- Subseries IX.2: Split Rock Arts Program and Student Work
- Subseries IX.3: University of Iowa, Univeristy of Georgia, Yale, S.U.N.Y.at Albany
- Subseries IX.4: Miscellaneous Teaching Materials
- Series X: Datebooks and Calendars
- Series XI: Journals
- Series XII: Memorabilia
- Series XIII: Documents
- Series XIV: Printed Material
- Series XV: Topical Files
- Subseries XV.1: Art
- Subseries XV.2: Business
- Subseries XV.3: Didion/Dunne
- Subseries XV.4: Health
- Subseries XV.5: Lear's Magazine
- Subseries XV.6: Howard, Jane
- Subseries XV.7: Literature
- Subseries XV.8: Media
- Subseries XV.9: Music
- Subseries XV.10: People
- Subseries XV.11: Politics
- Subseries XV.12: Religion
- Subseries XV.13: Simon and Schuster
- Subseries XV.14: Miscellaneous
- Seris XVI: Miscellaneous Files
- Seris XVII: Audiotapes
- Series XVIII: Scrapbooks
- Subseries XVIII.1: Families and Miscellaneous Writings
- Subseries XVIII.2: Please Touch and A Different Woman
- Subseries XVIII.3: MacDowell Colony
- Subseries XVIII.4: Life Magazine
- Series XIX: Photographs
- Series XX: Addresses
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
Rbml Advance Appointment
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jane Howard papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Deposited by Jane Howard, 1979, 1985, 1989& 1996.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Howard, Jane. Method of acquisition--Deposit; Date of acquisition--1979. Accession number--M-1979.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Processed RL 06/--/1989.
Revision Description
2010-02-11 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
Jane Temple Howard (1935-1996), journalist and author. was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter of Eleanor Nee Howard and newspaper reporter Robert Pickerell Howard. She received her A.B. degree from the University of Michigan in 1956. She also received an honorary D.Litt. from Grinell College in 1979 and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hamline University in 1984. Howard worked for LIFE magazine from 1956 until 1972 as a reporter, assistant editor, associate editor, and finally staff writer. She wrote numerous features for LIFE including interviews with Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, John Updike, and Jacqueline Susann. Beginning in 1989, she worked for several years at LEAR'S magazine as a contributing editor and author of the monthly interview column"A Woman for LEAR'S." As a freelance writer, Howard contributed to SMITHSONIAN, ESQUIRE, THE WASHINGTON POST "BOOK WORLD", MADEMOISELLE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, and numerous other publications. Howard's first book, PLEASE TOUCH: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE HUMAN POTENTIAL MOVEMENT was published in 1970. A DIFFERENT WOMAN appeared in 1973, FAMILIES in 1978, and the biography, MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE, in 1990. At the time of her death, Howard was writing a book under the working title LOST IN THE INTERIOR which was to be a personal and historical account of the midwest.
Also enjoying a successful teaching career, Howard was a visiting lecturer at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (Fall 1974), the University of Georgia School of Journalism (Spring 1975), Yale University English Department (Spring 1976), and the SUNY Albany English Department (Winter 1978). She was a John Steinbeck Writer-in-Residence at Southampton College (Summer 1982), and a James Thurber Writer-in Residence at Ohio State University (Fall 1986). During the summers of 1989 and 1990, Howard led non-fiction writing workshops at the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. She was also a professor of creative writing at Columbia University for several years during the 1990s.
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