Research Catalog
Larry Neal plays
- Title
- Larry Neal plays, 1976-1980.
- Author
- Neal, Larry, 1937-
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Frank Silvera Writers Workshop
- Found In
- c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.
- Description
- 2
- Summary
- Collection contains photocopies of two unpublished play scripts.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Plays.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Photocopying requires prior permission from Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
- Source (note)
- Frank Silvera Writers Workshop
- Biography (note)
- Playwright, poet, critic and editor, Neal was a major literary spokesman of the Black Arts movement in the 1960s.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms a part of: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. See collection record for more information.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 64
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A77
- Author
- Neal, Larry, 1937-
- Title
- Larry Neal plays, 1976-1980.
- Terms Of Use
- Photocopying requires prior permission from Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
- Linking Entry
- Forms a part of: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. See collection record for more information.
- Biography
- Playwright, poet, critic and editor, Neal was a major literary spokesman of the Black Arts movement in the 1960s. Larry Neal was born in Atlanta, GA, 1937, and died of a heart attack in Hamilton, NY, 1981. He received a B.A. (1961) at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, and an M.A. (1963) at the University of Pennsylvania. Neal, with Amiri Baraka, is the founder of the Black Arts Repertory Theater in New York, 1965. The same year he also organized the First Harlem Black Festival. From 1969 to 1971 he was writer-in-residence at Wesleyan University and Case Western University, and program director of the Langston House of Kuumba. He taught at Yale University (1971-1974), and Williams College (1975-1976). In the 1980s, he was executive director of District of Columbia Commission on Arts and Humanities.Larry Neal was an editor of The Cricket, the Journal of Black Poetry, and Pride magazine. His poetry, literary and social criticism have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies of black writers. His memberships include Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, New York State Council on Arts, Academy of American Poets, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gordy Foundation, Poets and Writers, and the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in New York City. He is the recipient of literary prizes from Lincoln University, 1960 and 1961; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1970; Yale University Fellow, 1970-1975; Faculty Grant, Williams College, 1975.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Neal, Larry, 1937- Glorious monster in the bell of the horn.Neal, Larry, 1937- In an upstate motel.Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
- Found In:
- c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 64