Leopold Tyrmand papers, 1941-1985

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Summary

Creators:
Tyrmand, Leopold
Abstract:
Writings, diaries, correspondence, notes, and printed matter, relating to social conditions in Poland, cultural conditions in communist countries, popular culture in the United States and other Western countries, standards of sexual behavior in the United States, and American conservative thought. Includes fictional writings.
Extent:
25 manuscript boxes, 4 envelopes, digital media (10.6 Linear Feet)
Language:
In English and Polish
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Leopold Tyrmand Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1920, May 16
Born, Warsaw, Poland
1938-1939
Student, Department of Architecture, L'Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1941
Wilno, Soviet occupied zone, arrested and sentenced for 25 years for political activities
1942-1944
Voluntary labor, Germany
1944
Concentration camp prisoner, Norway
1946
Chief-correspondent, Polish Press Agency, Norway
1946
Returned to Poland
1947-1948
Assumed various positions as journalist
1949-1953
Joined Tygodnik Powszechny
1954
Wrote Dziennik, 1954
1955
Author, Zly
1956
Organized First Jazz Music Festival
1959
Author, Seven Long Voyages
1961
Author, Filip
1964
Suspended from publishing
1965
Traveled around Europe
1966
State Department invitation to U.S.
1967
U.S. permanent residence
1967
Published first essays, New Yorker Magazine
1968-1969
Lecturer, Slavic Literature Department, Columbia University
1970
Author, Notebook of a Dilettante
1970
Editor, Kultura Essays, Explorations in Freedom
1971
Married Mary Ellen Fox
1972
Author, Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative
1976-1980
Associate Director, Rockford College
1977-1985
Editor, Chronicles of Culture
1978
Author, Media Shangri-La
1981
Appointed Vice-President, Rockford College
Edits, Rockford Papers
1985
Author, Ugly, Beautiful People
1985, March, 19
Died, Fort Myers, Florida
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1986.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Leopold Tyrmand Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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