Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Dan Luckenbill papers,
- Dates:
- 1945-
- Creators:
- Luckenbill, Dan
- Abstract:
- Daniel Walter Bernard Luckenbill (b.1945) began work at the UCLA Library (1970) and continues in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections. He studied writing with Christopher Isherwood, John Rechy, and Elisabeth Nonas. His first stories were published in the mid 1970s and anthologized in On the line: new gay fiction (1980). He also edited and wrote several exhibit catalogs for the UCLA Library. Boxes 1-14 include research material, notes, drafts, manuscripts, publications, correspondence, research material, and business correspondence from writers and editors.
- Extent:
- 88 boxes (44.0 linear ft.)
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Dan Luckenbill Papers (Collection 1484). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Boxes 1-14 include research material, notes, drafts, manuscripts, publications, and correspondence. Also includes records of a class with John Rechy including annotations and critiques written by Rechy, research material related to the Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis, and business correspondence from writers and editors Winston Leyland, Daniel Curzon (Daniel Brown), and Ian Young.
- Biographical / historical:
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Daniel Walter Bernard Luckenbill was born in Decatur, Illinois, March 25, 1945; moved to Los Angeles in 1964; BA, University of California, Los Angeles (1966); commissioned 2LT, U.S. Army (Field Artillery) 1967, with two campaigns in Viet Nam, 1968-69); began work at the UCLA Library (1970) and continues in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections; studied writing with Christopher Isherwood, John Rechy, and Elisabeth Nonas; first stories published in the mid 1970s and anthologized in On the line: new gay fiction (1980); he edited and wrote several exhibit catalogs for the UCLA Library including Sylvester & Orphanos (1990) and With equal pride: gay & lesbian studies at UCLA (1993).
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- ©2005 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
- Date Encoded:
- Container List rekeyed and encoded by Byte Managers from in-house paper finding aid, June 2004 . Machine-readable finding aid derived from rekeyed finding aid, supplementary encoding added via Notetab Pro. Online finding aid edited by Josh Fiala. Date of source: October 1998 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Dan Luckenbill Papers (Collection 1484). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988