Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Access Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Gombos, Edith. Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1960-1979
Collection number: M1175
Creator:
Gombos, Edith
Extent:
.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: Includes an unpublished rough and corrected draft manuscript by Jean-Paul Sartre (29 pp), messages from both Sartre and Simone
de Beauvoir, de Beauvoir letters (5), Henry Miller letters and cards (16), Graham Greene letters (28), and 11 taped interviews
with Sartre, Ingmar Bergman, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Amos Oz, Julio Cortazar, Woody Allen, Henry Miller,
and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Access unrestricted, except for the original cassette tapes, which will be preserved as archival copies. Use copies will be
made as soon as possible.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Acquisition Information
Purchased, 2000.
Preferred Citation
Edith Gombos Papers. M1175. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Edith Gombos [Edith Sorel, pseudonym] was a journalist for the Cuban paper REVOLUTION, ca. 1960, and thereafter a free-lance
interviewer of international status, her work published in several languages. Her career began with her introduction of de
Beauvoir to Cuba, and did not conclude until the mid-1990s. Through the agency of Henry Miller she had a story published in
English.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Includes an unpublished rough and corrected draft manuscript by Jean-Paul Sartre (29 pp), messages from both Sartre and Simone
de Beauvoir, de Beauvoir letters (5), Henry Miller letters and cards (16), Graham Greene letters (28), and 11 taped interviews
with Sartre, Ingmar Bergman, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Amos Oz, Julio Cortazar, Woody Allen, Henry Miller,
and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Access Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Allen, Woody, 1935-
Baldwin, James, 1924-
Beauvoir, Simone de. 1908-
Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-
Cortâazar, Julio.
Durrell, Lawrence.
Greene, Graham, 1904-
Miller, Henry, 1891-
Oz, Amos.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-
Sorel, Edith, pseud.
American literature--20th century.
French literature--20th century.
Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959.
Cuba--Intellectual life.
Phonotapes.