Warga (Wayne) papers, circa 1965-1994

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Summary

Title:
Wayne Warga papers
Dates:
circa 1965-1994
Creators:
Warga, Wayne
Abstract:
Collection contains the papers of Wayne Warga (1937-1994), an entertainment reporter and ghostwriter. His papers include correspondence, research files, novel galleys and typescripts, and taped interviews. He wrote about John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Aaron Spelling and Charles Rosendahl, along with a variety of other figures in the entertainment world.
Extent:
8.0 Linear feet 9 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], Wayne Warga Papers, Collection no. 0188, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

Chronological files of Wayne Warga's research, notes and drafts for articles he wrote for the Los Angeles Times, Cosmo, Westways and People. Collection also includes notes, interviews, and research he collected while ghostwriting autobiographies for Aaron Spelling and John Wayne; research and drafts for a prospective novel about the airship captain Charles Rosendahl; drafts, publicity materials, and reviews for his mystery novel Hardcover; and research he collected while writing a book about the movie industry in the 1960s and 1970s, titled Shooting Stars.

Biographical / historical:

Wayne Warga was an author and entertainment journalist who wrote freelance articles for a number of publications, including Life and Cosmopolitan. He also was on the staff of the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s and 1970s and was a writer for the television show Entertainment Tonight in the 1980s. He was born in 1938 in California, and passed away in 1994.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Rebecca Hirsch and Rachel Jordan
Date Prepared:
2011 October
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-11-22T03:14-0800

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name], Wayne Warga Papers, Collection no. 0188, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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