Howard (DuMont) Papers, 1969-1988

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Scope and content:: The collection includes scripts, scores, and publicity for Howard’s musicals, as well as personal and business correspondence, subject files, photographs, scrapbooks, and personalia. There are also drafts of book proposals, interviews, music reviews, plays, screenplays, short stories, and works of nonfiction. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004301; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008497; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004300
Biographical / historical:: Dumont Howard (1954-1988) was a music critic and librettist who was the author-in-residence for the Lilliput Players children’s musical theater, producing works that his Bay Area Reporter obituary called “marked by wit, intelligence, and sophistication missing from most children’s theater, an adroit blend that appealed to adults and young people.” Howard was also the music critic for the San Francisco Sentinel, and his short stories, reviews and celebrity interviews appeared in numerous other publications, including Cracks in the Image, an anthology of gay fiction.
Acquisition information:: Gift of Jeffrey Escoffier, literary executor of the estate of Dumont Howard, on January 30, 1993.

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff.
Date Prepared:: 1969-1988
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

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Location of this collection:: GLBT Historical Society

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San Francisco, CA 94103, US