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Biography
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Carey McWilliams collection of material about Mary Hunter Austin
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0278
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1868-1934
Abstract: Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was an author who published thirty-one books and many short stories, essays, and poems. The
collection consists of letters, manuscripts, articles, clippings, and ephemera by and about Mary Austin. The bulk of the collection
is made up of letters to Carey McWilliams and magazine and newspaper clippings.
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[Identification of item], Carey McWilliams Collection of Material About Mary Hunter Austin (Collection 278). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Mary Hunter Austin was born September 9, 1868 in Carlinville, Illinois; she was an American author who published thirty-one
books and many short stories, essays, and poems; writings on the American Southwest include
The Flock (1906),
Lost Borders (1909),
The Land of Journeys' Ending (1924),
The Land of Little Rain (1903), and an autobiography titled
Earth Horizon (1932); died, August 1934.
Carey McWilliams was born December 13, 1905 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado; J.D., University of Southern California; attorney,
Black, Hammack & McWilliams, Los Angeles, 1927-38; chief of Division of Immigration and Housing, California State Governor,
1938-42; contributing editor, associate editor, and editorial director,
The Nation, 1945-55; editor,
The Nation, 1955-1975; some of his books include:
Ambrose Bierce, a Biography (1929),
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (1939),
Ill Fares the Land: Migrants And Migratory Labor In The United States (1942),
Brothers Under the Skin (1943);
Prejudice: Japanese-Americans, Symbol of Racial Intolerance (1944),
Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946),
A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America (1948),
The Education of Carey McWilliams (1979); died of cancer, June 27, 1980 in New York, New York.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of letters, manuscripts, articles, clippings, and ephemera by and about California author Mary Austin.
The bulk of the collection is made up of letters to Carey McWilliams (series 1) and magazine and newspaper clippings (series
4). Manuscripts include two of Austin's film scenarios which were never produced,
Bride of the Sun and
The Flock. Three photographs and negatives which were part of the original collection were transferred to the Photographic Collection
(Collection 99) at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Letters to Carey McWilliams.
- Manuscripts.
- Material about Mary Austin.
- Magazine and newspaper clippings.
- Letters to various persons.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- Archives.
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934--Archives.
Austin, Mary
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934--Correspondence.
McWilliams, Carey -- Correspondence