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Title: Irving Shulman papers
Collection number: 0021
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
19.67 Linear feet
19 boxes, 1 map case folder
Date (inclusive): 1931-1970
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of the novelist, screenwriter, and biographer Irving Shulman, who is best known for writing
the screenplay for
Rebels Without a Cause. His papers include manuscripts and typescripts of screenplays, short stories, novels, and biographies.
creator:
Shulman, Irving
Irving Shulman was a novelist, screenwriter and biographer of Rudolph Valentino, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Jean Harlow.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania on May 21, 1913. Shulman received his BA from Ohio
University in 1937, his MA from Columbia in 1938, and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1972. During World War II he worked for the War
Department in Washington, D.C. He married Joan Grager in 1938, and they had two daughters.
The Dukes of Amboy, his first novel (and biggest literary success), mined the neighborhoods in which Shulman had grown up and was published
in 1947. Shulman moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s, where he worked as a contract screenwriter and continued to write
novels. As a screenwriter, he is best known as the author of the screenplay for the 1955 movie
Rebels Without a Cause. Shulman later adapted the movie's plot for his novel
Children of the Dark. In the 1960s, Shulman wrote biographies of Jean Harlow (1964), Rudolph Valentino (1967), and Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis (1970).
Shulman passed away on March 23, 1995.
This collection contains manuscripts and typescripts of Irving Shulman's screenplays, short stories, novels, and biographies
of Jean Harlow, Rudolph Valentino and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Also included in this collection are publisher's galleys
for some of his books and various literary periodical publications from the 1930s. Please refer to the Scope and Content notes
of individual series for more information.
[Box/folder# or item name], Irving Shulman papers, Collection no. 0021, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of
Southern California.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
The collection contains published materials; researchers are reminded of the copyright restrictions imposed by publishers
on reusing their articles and parts of books. It is the responsibility of researchers to acquire permission from publishers
when reusing such materials. The copyright to unpublished materials belongs to the heirs of the writers. Permission to publish,
quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Ohio University's Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections has the Irving Shulman Collection (MSS#
98).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Harlow, Jean, 1911-1937
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994
Shulman, Irving -- Archives
Valentino, Rudolph, 1895-1926
Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources
Biographers--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
Celebrities--United States--Biography--Archival resources
Manuscripts
Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
Typescripts