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Dirck Van Sickle and Evva Joan Pryor typescripts, approximately 1980-approximately 2008.
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Title:
Dirck Van Sickle and Evva Joan Pryor typescripts, approximately 1980-approximately 2008Creator/Contributor:
Van Sickle, Dirck, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Pryor, Evva Joan, 1935-2008, creator.Abstract:
Four unpublished typescripts of novels written by Dirck Van Sickle and Evva Joan Pryor. Titles comprise: My Pal Rinker; Darkmoon
Honeymoon; Hostages of Oxygen; and, The Light from Tomorrow. Also includes an unproduced screenplay adaptation by Van Sickle
of his novel Montana Gothic. The typescripts are undated.
Date:
1980 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caVan Sickle, Dirck -- Archives
Pryor, Evva Joan -- 1935-2008 -- Archives
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Dirck Van Sickle and Evva Joan Pryor typescripts, BANC MSS 2023/219, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Gift of Peter Koch; 2023.
Dirck Gordon Van Sickle was born on October 5, 1942 in Dearborn, Michigan and raised in Billings, Montana. He published his
novel Montana Gothic in 1979. He died on May 23, 2013 at his home in New York City.
Evva Joan Pryor was born March 7, 1935 in Minersville, Utah. After studying drama at Brigham Young University and at Arizona
State University, she went to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio, and afterwards ran a small
theater for many years. She held a master's degree in psychiatric social work, and was associate professor at New York University
and Hofstra University. At the time of her death, she was working as a film and dramatic rights agent for the McIntosh & Otis
literary agency. She died on July 15, 2008 at her home in New York City.
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Manuscripts for publication.Western fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
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English