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Title: William Campbell Gault collection
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 284
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.2 linear feet
(5 cartons and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1937-1996
Abstract: The bulk of the collection consists of work by Santa Barbara crime and young adult fiction writer William Campbell Gault,
including hard covers, paperbacks, and stories in anthologies and pulp magazines.
The collection is open for research. The collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
William Campbell Gault Collection. Mss 284. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Shelley Gault, 2010.
William Campbell Gault (1910-1995) was born and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He lived mostly in that city until he moved
to California in 1950. He served in the 166th Infantry during World War II. Before he became a professional writer, he held
a variety of jobs, including ice man, mailman, aircraft assembler, sole cutter in a shoe factory, bus boy, waiter, and hotel
manager. Gault wrote under his own name and pseudonyms such as Roney Scott and Will Duke.
Scope and Content of Collection
The bulk of the collection consists of work by Santa Barbara crime and young adult fiction writer William Campbell Gault,
including hard covers, paperbacks, and stories in anthologies and pulp magazines. English-language monographs have been cataloged
separately and can be searched in the UCSB Library online catalog. Foreign-language editions and magazines are housed in this
manuscript collection.
The collection also contains awards, correspondence, a few black and white photographs of Gault and fellow mystery writers,
and mystery and sport stories mainly appearing in pulp magazines from the latter 1930s to the early 1960s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Detective and mystery stories
Awards
Black-and-white photographs
Books
Correspondence
Magazines (periodicals)
Gault, William Campbell -- Archives