392 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Authors.

  1. Hedrick Smith papers, 1923-2010

    200,000 items. 570 containers plus 13 oversize and 1 classified. 235.2 linear feet. 26,688 digital files (107.90 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Journalist, author, and documentarian. Correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, drafts of speeches, articles, books, notes, radio broadcasts, legal material, research material, family papers, press releases, printed material, posters, maps, digital files, and other papers relating primarily to Smith's research for his books and television productions about the Soviet Union, United States politics, and issues affecting the American working class. Documents his career with the New York Times while stationed in Washington, D.C., Moscow, Russia, and elsewhere, as well as his coverage for United Press International of the civil rights movement in the South and space exploration, 1959-1962.

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  2. Owen Lattimore papers, 1907-1997

    22,175 items. 62 containers. 27.1 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Orientalist, author, educator, and historian. Correspondence, journals, writings, reviews, speeches, research notes, interviews, reports, transcripts of hearings, and other papers pertaining to Lattimore's studies in Chinese and Mongolian history and linguistics, his appointment as a political advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, and his service as director of Pacific Operations in the United States Office of War Information Overseas Operations Branch, and as a member of the United States Reparations Mission to Japan. Other topics include accusations by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and subsequent Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigations (1951), and the establishment of the Lattimore Institute for Mongolian Studies.

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  3. John Bartlow Martin papers, 1900-1986

    150,000 items. 453 containers including 8 oversize, plus 1 classified. 180.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Author, journalist, political adviser, and United States ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, drafts, notebooks, research files, political campaign files, family and estate papers, photographs, and other papers documenting Martin's career as a free-lance journalist, his role as an advance man, speechwriter, and adviser to Democratic presidential candidates, and his service as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

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  4. Ralph Ellison papers, 1890-2005

    74,800 items. 314 containers plus 25 oversize. 143 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    African-American author and educator. General correspondence, organizational correspondence and reports, family papers, drafts, notes, and production files for novels, essays, poetry, short stories, reviews, and other writings, speeches, lectures, and interviews, reference file, and miscellany documenting Ellison's career and development as a writer. Among the many works represented are Going to the Territory (1985), Invisible Man (1952), Shadow and Act (1964), and the second novel Ellison left unpublished at his death.

  5. Ayn Rand papers, 1933-1976

    220 items. 31 containers. 12.8 linear feet. 19 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Author and philosopher. Drafts, galleys, and proofs of her four novels; handwritten essays; and miscellaneous items.

  6. William A. Rusher papers, 1940-2010

    94,500 items. 273 containers. 109.2 linear feet. 34 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Author, lawyer, and publisher. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, drafts and manuscripts of articles, books, book reviews, columns, minutes of meetings, reports, research notes, reference material, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other papers relating to Rusher's role as publisher of the National Review and the development of the conservative movement in American politics.

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  7. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. papers, 1780-1962

    25,000 items. 77 containers. 33 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Army officer, author, and public official. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, drafts of speeches and writings, subject files, newspaper clippings, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Roosevelt's service as United States assistant secretary of the navy (1921-1924) under Warren G. Harding and Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, as governor of Puerto Rico (1929-1932), and as governor general of the Philippines (1932-1933).

  8. Huntington Cairns papers, 1780-1984

    58,450 items. 165 containers plus 15 oversize. 73.1 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Author, government official, and lawyer. Correspondence, manuscripts and galley proofs of writings, speeches, subject and research files, family papers, printed material, scrapbooks, and other papers concerning Cairns's career with the U.S. Bureau of Customs as a federal censor of imported books and films, as a lawyer with the Maryland Tax Revision Commission (1938-1941), and as a writer on the arts, law, literature, and philosophy.

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  9. Laura Wood Roper papers, 1822-1982

    2,280 items. 19 containers. 9 linear feet. 10 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Biographer of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). Correspondence, research notes, reports, clippings, and printed matter related to Olmsted and the landscape architectural firm, Olmsted Associates (1961- ) and its predecessors, collected by Roper for her biography of Olmsted. Also includes card indexes containing abstracts mostly from Olmsted’s correspondence in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

  10. Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray papers, 1940-1984

    4,500 items. 13 containers. 5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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    Papers of Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray, journalists, writers, and editors. Correspondence, writings, notes, reviews, printed material, financial records, photographs and other papers relating primarily to the last decade of Flanner's writing career and to the relationship between Flanner and Murray.

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