Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the League of American Writers archives, [ca. 1935-1942]
BANC MSS 72/242 z
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Collection Title: League of American Writers Archives,
Date (inclusive): [ca. 1935-1942]
Collection Number: BANC MSS 72/242 z
Origination:
League of American Writers
Extent:
Number of containers: 6 boxes, 5 oversize folders
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Administrative, correspondence, congresses, affiliated group and publication materials concerning the activities and interests
of the League.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], League of American Writers archives, BANC MSS 72/242 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
- V. 1 (nos. 1-3,5) and v. 2 (nos. 1-2, 4-9) of clippings have been removed for separate cataloging.
- Photographs and negatives have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
The League of American Writers was established in April, 1935, at the First American Writers' Congress, to be "a voluntary
association of writers dedicated to the preservation and extension of a truly democratic culture." Waldo Frank was elected
to be the first national chairman.
In pursuit of its aim to combat the forces of fascism and reaction, the League greatly expanded its activities under the leadership
of Donald Ogden Stewart and Franklin Folsom, who were chosen respectively as national chairman and executive secretary at
the second Writers Congress in 1937. Many famous anti-fascist writers were rescued from concentration camps in Europe by the
Exiled Writers Committee; thousands of dollars were collected for medical aid to the Spanish Loyalists; violations of civil
liberties and instances of illiberalism in the United States were publicized and protested.
Establishment and maintenance of writers' schools and regional writers' conferences, continuing forums, meetings, lectures,
and the organization of four writers' congresses on a national scale reflected the League's interest in the furtherance of
American letters. Its publications afford additional records of the political and literary activities of the group from its
inception until its dissolution in 1942.
The archives of the League of American Writers were purchased by the Berkeley Library of the University of California from
Franklin Folsom in 1966. The collection has been microfilmed and the master negative is on file in the Rare Books and Special
Collections Department.
Students and researchers who wish to publish quotations from these materials must secure permission from the owners of the
literary rights.
The archives are organized in twenty-six parts, in which the original arrangement has been preserved as nearly as possible:
- Part 1-7
- Administrative records
- Part 8
- Correspondence and papers by individual authors
- Part 9-12
- National congresses
- Part 13-21
- Records of affiliated groups
- Part 22
- Publications
- Part 23
- Photographs (Transferred to pictorial collection)
- Part 24
- Negatives
- Part 25
- Undated miscellany
- Part 26
- Clippings
Author Index to Correspondence and Papers
Albee, George
8:A1
Alegria, Ciro
12:3
Allsberg, Henry G.
10:7
Anderson, Sherwood
8:A2-3
Appel, Benjamin
12:1
Aptheker, Herbert
12:2
Aragon, Louis
8:A4-513:3
Arnold, Thurman
8:A6
Auden, Wystan Hugh
8:A7
Banning, Margaret Culkin
8:B1-3
Barnes, Joseph
8:B4
Barnouw, Erik
12:2
Benes, Edvard
8:B5
Benet, Stephen Vincent
8:B6
Bessie, Alvah
12:3
Biddle, Francis
8:B7
Biele, Harry
8:C8
Blake, Ellen
8:A2
Bloch, Ernest
8:B8
Bodenheim, Maxwell
10:7
Bodet, J. Torres
12:3
Bonner, Amy
8:B
Botkin, B. A.
8:B10-11
Brand, Millen
8:B1212:1
Brandon, Tom
8:M4
Brewster, Dorothy
8:B1312:2
Bromfield, Louis
8:B14
Brooks, Obed
8:B15
Brooks, Van Wyck
8:B16-20L11
Browder, Earl
10:7
Buck, Pearl S.
8:B21
Budzislawski, Herman
8:B22
Burgum, Edwin Berry
12:2
Burt, Struthers
8:B24-25
Caldwell, Erskine
8:C1-2
Canby, Henry S.
8:C5
Carlisle, Harry
10:7
Carneiro, Cecelio J.
12:3
Carse, Robert
8:C612:1
Chevigny, Hector
12:2
Clurman, Harold
8:C7
Cole, Joseph H.
8:C8
Copland, Aaron
8:C9
Corey, Lewis
8:C10
Corwin, Norman
8:C11
Cowley, Malcolm
8:C12-1410:7
Crichton, Kyle
10:7
Cronbach, Robert
12:1
Day-Lewis, Cecil
8:D1-2
Deutsch, Babette
8:L14
Dillon, George
8:D3-4
Domini, Ambrogio
8:D5
Donato, Pietro di
8:D6
Draper, Muriel
10:7
Drasutin, Fodor
8:W21
Dreiser, Theodore
8:D7-15
Duranty, Walter
10:7
Early, Stephen
8:R13-18
Einstein, Albert
8:E1
Falcon, Cesar
12:3
Fearing, Kenneth
8:F1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
8:F2-4
Flexner, Eleanor
12:2
Folsom, Franklin
12:18:F5 (and passim.)
Frank, Waldo
8:F6-8
Frankfurter, Felix
8:F9-10
Franzen, Erich
8:F11
Freeman, Joseph
8:F12
Gelihorn, Martha
10:7
Georg, Manfred
8:G1
Gilbert, Enrique Gil
12:3
Gold, Michael
8:L1612:2
Graf, Oskar Maria
8:G2-3
Grafton, Samuel
8:G4
Graves, Lillian M.
8:L17
Greenleaf, Richard
8:G5
Gregory, Horace
8:G6
Guthrie, Ramon
8:G7
Hale, Hope
8:H1
Halper, Albert
8:H2
Hammett, Dashiell
8:H312:1
Harris, Tjader
12:1
Hart, Henry
10:7
Hemingway, Ernest
8:C12H4-610:7
Herskovits, Melville J.
8:H7-9
Hicks, Granville
10:7
Hoffmeister, Adolf
8:H10-11
Holmes, Eugene C.
12:1
Hook, Sidney
8:19
Hudicourt, Max L.
8:H12
Huebsch, B. W.
8:H13-14
Hughes, Langston
8:H15
Humphries, Ralph
10:7
Hurst, Fannie
8:H16-18
Ivens, Joris
10:7
Jackson, Gardner
8:J1
Jackson, Robert Houghwout
8:J2
Kennell, Ruth Epperson
12.3
Kent, Paul
12:1
Kent, Rockwell
12:1
Klein, Jerome
12:1
Knight, Eric
8:K1
Koerner, Daniel
12:1
LaFarge, Oliver
8:L3,5,1
LaMore, Chet
12:1
Lanham, Edwin
8:L6
Lapsley, Mary
12:3
Laredo, Federico
8:L7
Lawson, John Howard
12:2-3
Lengyel, Emil
8:18
Lennon, Florence Becker
8:19-29
Leonhard, Rudolf
8:L30-33
Lerner, Max
8:L34
Lozowick, Louis
12:1
Ludwig, Emil
8:L35
Lyra, Carmen
12:3
McCausland, Elizabeth
12:1
McFee, William
8:M1
McHenry, Beth
8:L15
McKay, Claude
8:L18
MacLeish, Archibald
8:M2-3410:7
Maltz, Albert
8:M35-37
Mann, Heinrich
8:M39
Mann, Klaus
8:M38
Mann, Thomas
8:M40-44
Maurois, Andre
8:M45
Meisel, James H.
8:L28
Messersmith, George
7:36
Mumford, Lewis K.
8:L25M46-48
Muzzey, David S.
8:A3
Nathan, Robert
8:N1
Nelken, Margarita
12:3
Neuwirth, Morris
12:1
Oboler, Arch
8:01
Osmers, Frank C.
8:W10
Page, Charles
12:1
Parker, Dorothy
8:P1
Prokosch, Frederic
8:P3
Putnam, Samuel
8:P412:1,3
Radwanski, Thaddeus A.
8:R1
Raymond, Margaret Thomsen
12:30
Reade, Leslie
8:R2
Regler, Gustav
8:R3
Renn, Ludwig
8:R4-711:4
Rexroth, Kenneth
8:R8
Richards, Robert
12:2
Riesel, Victor
8:L16
Robinson, Earl
8:R9
Roe, Wellington
8:R1012:1
Rome, Harold J.
8:R11
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
8:R12-18
Rosotov, T.
8:R19
Saroyan, William
8:S1
Schappes, Morris U.
8:32
Schneider, Isidor
8:33
Schuman, Henry
8:M15-16
Seldes, George
8:34-5
Shayon, Robert Lewis
8:36
Shecan, Vincent
8:S7-13
Sherwood, Robert
8:S14
Sillen, Samuel
12:3
Sinclair, Upton
8:S15-21
Snow, Edgar
8:S22
Speer, Robert K.
12:1
Spender, Stephen
8:S23
Stead, Christina
8:S24
Stewart, Donald Ogden
8:325-610:712:1
Stuart, Robert
8:S27
Taggard, Genevieve
8:T1-212:1
Tao, H. C.
10:7
Thomas, J. Parnell
8:S5
Toller, Ernst
8:T3
Tong, Jocelyn
8:L27
Uhse, Bodo
8:U1
Undset, Sigrid
8:U2
Untermeyer, Jean Starr
8:U3
Van Doren, Carl
8:V1-2
Wallace, Henry A.
8:W1
Ward, Lem
12:2
Ward, Lynd
12:3
Ward, Mary McNeer
12:3
Warner, H. M.
8:W2
Warner, Sylvia Townsend
8:W3-5
Westlake, Neda
8:D16
Wheelwright, John
8:L12, 18
Wilder, Thornton
8:W6-8
Wiley, Max
8:W9
Williams, Albert Rhys
10:7
Williams, Florence
8:W10
Williams, William Carlos
8:W10-13
Winwar, Frances
8:L10
Wolf, Else
8:W14
Wolf, Friedrich
8:W15-22
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott
8:W23
Wright, Richard
8:2412:1
Zukofsky, Louis
8:R8