West Virginia - Writers.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Lucinda Ebersole Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4585
Scope and Contents
Collection includes business records, personal papers, photographs, and artifacts of Lucinda Ebersole, writer and editor, pertaining to herself and her bookstore, Atticus Books. Business records and personal papers include a few photographs of Ebersole and others, book release information, book sales and other receipts, pamphlets, and other notes (Boxes 1-3). Also included are two photograph albums, which primarily contain pictures (circa 1980-2000) from events at Atticus Books (Box 6)....
Dates:
1863, 1913-2016, undated; Majority of material found within circa 1980-2016, undated
Melville Davisson Post (1871-1930) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3673
Scope and Contents
Papers of Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930), an American mystery and detective short story writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The bulk of the materials date from 1850 to 1929 and primarily consist of Melville Davisson Post's personal and business letters and family financial and legal papers. Business letters mainly document the process of soliciting or accepting and then publishing Post's stories. Financial papers pertain to Post's personal finances in the 1920s,...
Dates:
1811-1973; Majority of material found within 1850-1929
Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4052
Overview
Literary manuscripts of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. She is best known for her novels about peasant life in China. The collection includes the great majority of manuscripts comprising Buck's literary works, including her novels, non-fiction, children's books, and short stories, as well as articles and speeches, among other material. There is also material about Pearl Buck....
Dates:
circa 1923-2014; Majority of material found within circa 1923-1973
Pearl S. Buck, Author, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0727
Overview
Papers of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her novels about peasant life in China. Dating chiefly from 1933 to 1966, the collection contains typescript and handwritten drafts of articles, reviews, novels, plays, short stories, and speeches; reference materials; and correspondence that document Pearl Buck's literary, political, and humanitarian activities from 1933 to 1976....
Dates:
1921-2018 and undated; Majority of material found within 1933-1966 and undated
Robert Tinnell Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4566
Scope and Contents
Papers of Robert Tinnell, a West Virginia director, producer, and writer of horror films and related genres. Collection includes Tinnell's produced and unproduced screenplays, storyboards and related papers, short stories, newspaper articles, magazines and graphic novels, sketches, and miscellaneous notes and papers. The screenplays, which comprise much of the collection, were mainly written in the 1980s and 1990s. Tinnell's graphic novels include Sight...
Dates:
1977-2008, undated