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Joe R. Christopher correspondence with Phyllis White, 1978-1999.
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Joe R. Christopher correspondence with Phyllis White, 1978-1999Creator/Contributor:
Christopher, Joe R., creator, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
White, Phyllis, 1915-2000, correspondent.Abstract:
Collection of correspondence between Joe R. Christopher and Phyllis White, widow of Anthony Boucher. Includes drafts and copies
of essays and presentations by Christopher on topics related to Boucher's life and career.
Date:
1978 (issued)Subject:
Christopher, Joe R -- CorrespondenceWhite, Phyllis -- 1915-2000 -- Correspondence
Boucher, Anthony -- 1911-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
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Joe R. Christopher correspondence with Phyllis White, BANC MSS 2016/114, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Related collection: Anthony Boucher collection (BANC MSS 2016/113).
In English.
Gift of James White; 2016.
Joe R. Christopher is a professor emeritus of English at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas. He has published
three books on C.S. Lewis, short stories, over a hundred poems, and over a hundred essays and notes. He has edited three books,
one of them being The Casebook of Gregory Hood, a collection of fourteen 1946 radio mysteries, written by Anthony Boucher
and Denis Green.
Phyllis Price White graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938. She was a librarian and a longtime Bay
Area choral singer. With her husband, William Anthony Parker White (known professionally as Anthony Boucher), she was an editor
of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She was also a founder and longtime member of a local Sherlock Holmes fan
society. She lived in Berkeley, California until her death on December 22, 2000.
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