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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series includes correspondence sent to Birstein including letters from fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, editors, publishers, academics and critics. Correspondents include Hannah Arendt, Dorothy Baker, Saul Bellow, Carl Bode, Marcel Breuer (sketches), Mary Ellen Chase, Joan Didion Dunne, Ralph Ellison, Germaine Greer, Erich Heller, David Ignatow, Elizabeth Janeway, Erica Jong, Bernard Malamud, Sophie Tucker, and Elie Wiesel. Also includes “fan mail” sent to Birstein throughout her...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Ann Birstein Papers comprise the literary and personal papers of Ann Birstein. Correspondence from Alfred Kazin to Birstein documents their relationship, and includes original greeting cards, and handwritten and typed letters. The collection also includes correspondence from Birstein and Kazin’s friends and colleagues who included authors, editors, writers, and journalists, documenting their social and literary life and providing anecdotal accounts of notable creative figures. Also...

Scope and Contents This series includes correspondence sent to Birstein including letters from fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, editors, publishers, academics and critics. Correspondents include Hannah Arendt, Dorothy Baker, Saul Bellow, Carl Bode, Marcel Breuer (sketches), Mary Ellen Chase, Joan Didion Dunne, Ralph Ellison, Germaine Greer, Erich Heller, David Ignatow, Elizabeth Janeway, Erica Jong, Bernard Malamud, Sophie Tucker, and Elie Wiesel. Also includes “fan mail” sent to Birstein throughout her...

Abstract The papers of Ann Birstein consist chiefly of manuscripts of published fiction and nonfiction works. The collection also includes correspondence, printed matter, photographs, and personal miscellany. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters and postcards from Birstein’s husband, literary critic Alfred Kazin. Additional correspondence includes letters sent to Birstein from many notable writers, poets, editors, publishers, academics, and critics. Correspondents include Hannah Arendt,...