Authors -- Arkansas
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
Cora Anne Stroud Jenkins Papers
John Park Cravens Papers
Ben F. Johnson III Collection
The collection contains three audiocassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Ben F. Johnson III while engaged in researching a biography of Arkansas poet John Gould Fletcher. Subjects interviewed included Mary Fletcher Worthen, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Terry, Mrs. George Rose Smith, and Dr. Woodbridge Morris.
Douglas C. Jones Papers
Materials include correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, paintings, and photographs.
James Keddie Collection
This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs.
Clara B. Kennan Papers
Materials related to Arkansas history and Arkansas writers, as collected by Clara B. Kennan, as well as a promotional flier for a book by Kennan.
Lida W. Pyles Papers
Lighton Family Papers
The Lost Roads Project
The Lost Roads Project: A Walk-in Book of Arkansas. Providence : Lost Roads Project, Brown University, 1994. "Printed by Walter Feldman for the Lost Roads Project in an edition of [18] numbered and signed copies of which this is number [15]"
The collection consists of 1 copy of the portfolio (21 broadsides), containing the following texts. Each sheet (56 x 48 cm.) is printed in black, red, and/or blue on cream paper, with the same illustration printed in various colors.
Teresa Irwin Luneau "A Critical Biography of Charlie May Simon" Typescript
The collection consists of a photocopy of a partial typescript of Teresa Irwin Luneau's unpublished biography of Arkansas children's writer Charlie May Simon. Included are a title page, outline, and chapters one ("Her Life") and four ("Her Autobiographies").
James McNally Reminiscences
The collection includes 13 booklets and 1 typescript prepared and authored by McNally. The booklets include short stories, family and local Arkansas histories, anecdotal accounts of his personal relationships, and descriptions of his experiences leading up to service in the United States Army.
Thomas Perkins Morgan Scrapbook and Manuscripts
Scrapbooks and Manuscripts (116 Items)
Literary manuscripts of the Rogers, Arkansas humorist who wrote under the pseudonyms J. Fuller Gloom and Tennyson J. Daft, consisting mostly of his unpublished plays, short stories, and sketches, together with ten scrapbooks of mounted material, mostly clippings from his daily column and other works published in the Kansas City Star and various periodicals.
Robert Morris and Elizabeth Morris Walker Papers
The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, albums, and physical artifacts pertaining to the lives of Robert Morris and Elizabeth Morris Walker.
Robert Lee Morris Rackinsack Collection
Rackinsack, a mountain play; On the tale and tune of the Arkansas Traveler and three reels of magnetic tape recordings, tape speed 7.5 IPS.
Margaret J. Mullen Papers
The papers consist of literary manuscripts and printed material, including the preliminary draft of her book An Arkansas Childhood. A monograph Second Harvest, 1987, containing Mullen's short story "Dixon Street" was removed from the collection and placed in the library's holdings. All the manuscripts are typewritten with the exception of No. 1, which is in longhand.
Oda Mulloy Papers
Materials include nine booklets and three compact discs.
National League of American Pen Women, Northwest Arkansas Branch Records
The collection includes various documents pertaining to the group's functions, in addition to materials from exhibitions, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings and publications from the national branch.
Radine Trees Nehring Papers
The collection contains writings and other materials related to the career of Arkansas writer Radine Trees Nehring; the bulk of collection materials relate to Nehring's first book, Dear Earth: A Love Letter from Spring Hollow (1995). Materials include book proposals, typescript drafts, proofs, a press packet, promotional materials, and publisher correspondence.
Rebecca Newth “Arkansas Voices” Oral History Interview Collection
Ruth Polk Patterson Papers
Ruth Polk Patterson Papers Addendum
Materials in this collection are various draft manuscripts of Ruth Polk Patterson’s books about her grandfather’s life and work as a slave in Arkansas. Spencer Polk, Patterson’s grandfather, was born to an enslaved woman, Sally, and her enslaver Taylor Polk. Unusually, Spencer and his siblings by Sally were raised along with Taylor Polk's white children.
Lily Peter Interview
Lily Peter (1891-1991), interviewee. Ms. Peter was an Arkansas poet, farmer, and philanthropist. Oral history interview conducted by Pamela Carmell at the Peter home in Marvell (Phillips County), Arkansas, July 19-20, 1986.
Florence Price Collection
The collection contains materials, primarily published and unpublished sheet music, created and collected by composer Florence Price. Also included are a memo book, course notes, and a course notebook that belonged to Price; thirteen family photographs; and a manuscript draft of a novel, Maudelle: A Novel Founded on Facts Gathered from Living Witnesses, written by Price's father, James H. Smith.
Diane Rowland Research Materials on Bernie Babcock
Elizabeth F. Shores Research Materials on Charles Finger
Research materials compiled by Elizabeth Findley Shores as part of her work on a biography of Arkansas writer Charles J. Finger.