Finding Aid of the Irving Shulman papers
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Finding aid prepared by Rebecca Hirsch and Mandeep Condle
The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National
Historic Publications and Records Commission.
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
2010
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
Biographical Note
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Irving Shulman papers, Collection no. 0021, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of
Southern California.
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Related Archival Materials
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
Novels
Scope and Content
Series consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of novels written by Irving Shulman. Series also includes notes, promotional
materials, and book reviews for a few works, including
The Roots of Fury and
The Velvet Knife.
Arrangement
Series is arranged in alphabetical order by title of the final, published work. Unidentified drafts are at the end of the
series.
Map-case 5, Drawer 4, Box 1
Map-case 5, Drawer 4, Box 1
Box 1-3
Good Deeds Must Be Punished
Map-case 5, Drawer 4
Miscellaneous Book Reviews
Box 4-5
Galleys
Scope and Content
Series includes galleys for a few novels and biographies written by Irving Shulman.
Box 5-6
Short Stories and Plays
Scope and Content
Series contains short stories and plays written by Shulman.
Screenplays
Scope and Content
Series contains draft and final screenplays and screen treatments Shulman wrote for film and television.
Biographies
Scope and Content
Series contains drafts of the three biographies written by Shulman:
Harlow: An Intimate Biography,
Valentino, and
Jackie!: The Exploitation of a First Lady. Series also contains Shulman's extensive research and note files on Valentino and Onassis, and a scrapbook of newspaper
clippings about Valentino Shulman purchased.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Box 14, Map-case 5, Drawer 4
Box 14
Personal Papers
Scope and Content
Series contains a few files of Shulman's papers. These papers include Shulman's 1949 and 1954 applications for Guggenheim
Fellowships and the text of a lecture he gave to a social welfare organization in New York in 1940.
Box 15, Folder 6
The Lamplighter (2 copies),
1936 January
Box 15, Folder 6
The Lamplighter (2 copies),
1936 March
Box 15, Folder 6
The Lamplighter (2 copies),
1936 April
Box 15, Folder 9
New Masses,
1932 February
Box 15, Folder 10
Matrix (2 copies),
1935 April
Box 15, Folder 10
Matrix (2 copies),
1935 May
Box 15, Folder 11
The Saturday Review,
1935 December 14
Box 15, Folder 11
The Saturday Review,
1935 December 21
Box 15, Folder 11
The Saturday Review,
1935 December 28
Box 1, Folder 13
American Stuff, Vol 1, No.3
Box 1, Folder 14
The Anvil,
1934 January - February
Box 15, Folder 14
The Anvil,
1934 July - August
Box 15, Folder 14
The Anvil,
1934 September - October
Box 16, Folder 1
The Book League Monthly,
1930 February
Box 16, Folder 2
The Book League Monthly,
1929 November
Box 16, Folder 5
Creative,
1936 November - December
Box 16, Folder 6
The Dial Dubuque,
1934 December
Box 16, Folder 8
Gotham Book Mart Catalogue,
1936
Box 16, Folder 10
The Hound & Horn,
Spring 1931
Box 16, Folder 11
The Hound & Horn,
1933 July - September
Box 16, Folder 12
International Who's Who - Monthly Supplement,
1947 February
Box 16, Folder 12
International Who's Who - Monthly Supplement,
1947 July
Box 16, Folder 13
Justice For Salcido,
1948
Box 16, Folder 14
Kosmos,
1934 March - April
Box 16, Folder 16
The Magazine,
1934 July - December
Box 16, Folder 17
Manuscript (3 copies),
1934 January
Box 16, Folder 18
Manuscript,
1934 April / June
Box 16, Folder 19
Manuscript,
1934 August / December
Box 16, Folder 20
Manuscript,
1935 February / April
Box 16, Folder 21
Manuscript (2 copies),
1935 June
Box 16, Folder 23
Manuscript,
1935 December
Box 16, Folder 23
Manuscript,
1936 February
Box 16, Folder 24
Manuscript (2 copies),
1936 April
Box 16, Folder 26
Manuscript,
1936 December
Box 16, Folder 27
Medallion,
1934 August - September
Box 16, Folder 28
The New Talent,
1934 June - August
Box 16, Folder 28
The New Talent,
1934 September - November
Box 16, Folder 29
The New Talent,
1935 October - December
Box 16, Folder 30
The New Tide,
1934 October - November
Box 16, Folder 31
Partisan Review,
Winter 1939
Box 16, Folder 32
The Penguin New Writing I,
1941
Box 16, Folder 34
The Rocking Horse,
Fall 1934
Box 16, Folder 35
Scope,
1934 September - October
Box 17, Folder 4
Story,
1941 September - October
Box 17, Folder 4
Story,
1942 March - April
Box 17, Folder 6
This Quarter,
1930 December
Box 17, Folder 7
The Transatlantic Review,
1924 January
Box 16, Folder 7
The Transatlantic Review,
1924 February
Box 18, Folder 1
Trend,
1934 October - November
Box 18, Folder 2
Windsor Quarterly,
Spring 1934
Box 18, Folder 2
Windsor Quarterly,
Autumn 1934
