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Alfred Kazin papers

Title: Alfred Kazin papers, 1938-1999.
Author: Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll MSS Kazin Archive	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
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Summary

The archive contains typescripts of Kazin's essays, books, unpublished biographical sketches, and lectures; more than 75 personal and literary journals; 13 literary notebooks; personal, literary and financial correspondence; two commonplace notebooks; extensive subject and biography research files (including especially extensive files on Herman Melville, the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe, slavery, and African-American literature); examinations and reading lists for undergraduate courses taught by Kazin; research files on a large number of American literary figures; page proofs; photographs; correspondence from over 60 persons (excluding fan mail), including writers, critics, cultural notables, intimate friends, and family members; and correspondence from Kazin to over 250 recipients, including over 60 letters to Judith Dunford (Kazin's third wife), dating from 1977 to 1982.

Subject

Genre/Form

Clippings.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Journals.
Games.
Notebooks.
Photographs.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Source (note)

The estate of Alfred Kazin, July 28, 2001.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Printed finding aid available in repository.

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Kazin archive

OCLC

875792930
875792930

Author

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.

Title

Alfred Kazin papers, 1938-1999.

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Biography

Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) was an American literary and cultural critic, essayist and historian. He was one of the most influential of New York intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, and belonged to the circle of writers and thinkers associated with the Partisan Review. Kazin's best-known work of criticism was On Native Grounds (1942), his seminal study of American prose and fiction of the period 1890-1940, and is also wel-known for his three memoirs, A Walker in the City (1951), Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), and New York Jew (1978). In 1996 he was awarded the first Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism. As of 2014, the only other award winner was George Steiner.

Indexes

Printed finding aid available in repository.

Local Note

The Berg Collection also holds a synthetic collection of 1,207 archival items by and about Alfred Kazin that were acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. See on-line NYPL catalog under TITLE: Alfred Kazin Collection of Papers, 1933-1990 bulk (1933-1978), for collection-level record and link to finding aid.

The processing of the Alfred Kazin Archive was made possible, in part, through the generous assistance of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

Source

Source Purchased from: The estate of Alfred Kazin, July 28, 2001.

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Auchincloss, Louis. Correspondent

Baker, Russell, 1901-1979. Correspondent

Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011. Correspondent

Bell, Pearl Kazin. Correspondent

Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020. Correspondent

Berman, Paul. Correspondent

Birstein, Ann. Correspondent

Broyard, Anatole. Correspondent

Calisher, Hortense. Correspondent

Chomsky, Noam. Correspondent

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998. Correspondent

Cook, Richard. Correspondent

Davis, Hope. Correspondent

Dickstein, Morris. Correspondent

Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006. Correspondent

Dunford, Judith. Correspondent

Edel, Leon, 1907-1997. Correspondent

Elman, Richard. Correspondent

Erdrich, Louise. Correspondent

Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012. Correspondent

Ford, Richard, 1944- Correspondent

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. Correspondent

Gay, Peter, 1923-2015. Correspondent

Giroux, Robert. Correspondent

Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023. Correspondent

Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016. Correspondent

Heilbroner, Robert L. Correspondent

Heller, Erich, 1911-1990. Correspondent

Hoagland, Edward. Correspondent

Kazin, Cathrael. Correspondent

Kazin, Michael, 1948- Correspondent

Kushner, Tony. Correspondent

Lewis, Anthony, 1927-2013. Correspondent

Lish, Gordon. Correspondent

Lurie, Alison. Correspondent

Mailer, Norman. Correspondent

Maxwell, William, 1908-2000. Correspondent

Merrill, James, 1926-1995. Correspondent

Mitgang, Herbert. Correspondent

O'Brien, Edna. Correspondent

Ozick, Cynthia. Correspondent

Roth, Philip. Correspondent

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007. Correspondent

Schulberg, Budd. Correspondent

Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994. Correspondent

Steinberg, Saul. Correspondent

Styron, William, 1925-2006. Correspondent

Updike, John. Correspondent

Wieseltier, Leon. Correspondent

Yehoshua, Abraham B., 1936-2022. Correspondent

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Kazin archive

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