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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Lorees Yerby papers
Creator:
Yerby, Lorees
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2242
Physical Description:
6.4 Linear Feet
(9 boxes, 1 flat box, 2 shoe boxes, and 2 tube boxes)
Date (inclusive): ca. 1950s-2000s
Abstract: Lorees Yerby was a writer of short stories, plays, screenplays, and novels. In 1957, she and her husband Mike Dutton opened
Coffee House Positano, located in Malibu, California. The collection consists of plays including Save Me a Place at Forest
Lawn, short stories, screenplays, photographs, correspondence, and a small amount of research notes related to Our Fathers
Trilogy.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Josephine Castelli, Pandora Castelli, Cynthia Dutton, Karen Dutton, Michael Dutton, Winston Dutton, and Carmen Spera;
2013.
[Identification of item], Lorees Yerby Papers (Collection 2242). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by Jenifer Becker with assistance from Julie Graham, May 2015.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9976804573606533
Lorees Yerby Dutton was born on January 9, 1930 in San Francisco. In July 1957, she and her second husband Mike Dutton opened
Coffee House Positano, located in Malibu, California; the establishment closed in 1963. She wrote short stories, plays, screenplays,
and novels. In 1963, her one-act play Save Me A Place in Forest Lawn was published. Yeby and third husband Bertrand Castelli
produced the satirical film, Richard, about Richard Nixon in 1972. In 1976, she received a Guggenheim Grant for the Our Fathers
trilogy (Nero, Mother England, and Abraham). Yerby later moved to Ocean Park, California, where she died in 1996.
The collection consists of materials related to the career of writer Lorees Yerby. Included are short stories, plays, screenplays
many of which were unpublished and/or unproduced, and a small amount of photographs, and correspondence. Additionally, there
is a small number of photographs documenting Coffee House Positano, small amount of research for the project Our Fathers Trilogy
and a small number of jottings and written thoughts by Yerby.
Arranged into the following series:
- Biographical Information
- Coffee House Positano
- Correspondence
- Plays
- Screenplays and Teleplays
- Short Stories
- Assorted Writings and Notes.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives.