He began as a journalist in the early 1930s, and in the early 1940s his creative verse and prose began to be published. L.A. Story, My Blue Heaven, Roxanne, and Three Caballeros. Gift of Steve Martin, 1990. The papers of this American writer include manuscripts for African Silences, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Killing Mister Watson, The Snow Leopard, and Wildlife in America, among others. An ongoing accession of this American writer's papers includes manuscripts for Ladies of the Court, True Crime, and other works, contracts and draft ar ticles.
Correspondence is from friends, fans, authors, poets,agents, and publishers.
This collection from the archive of a former senior editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction and Dalkey Archive Press includes works by and about William Gaddis, Alexander Theroux, Alan Ansen, and William T. Vollmann. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Permission to reproduce or publish copyrighted text or images must be obtained from the Center and the copyright holder.