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Literature

Collections include the papers of novelists, poets, and playwrights; interviews, publications, and ephemera.

Overview

Although literary collections have not been the curatorial focus of the Hoover Institution, the papers of novelists, poets, and playwrights can be found in the archives. Highlights include letters by Czech novelist Josef Škvorecký, speeches by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writings by Pulitzer Prize–winner Allen Drury, science fiction by Cordwainer Smith, and, especially, the papers of Boris Pasternak and his family. The Firing Line Broadcast Collection also features interviews with authors such as Jack Keruoac, Eudora Welty, Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, and Bret Easton Ellis.

Featured Collections

Pasternak Family Papers

Papers of Leonid Pasternak; his son, Boris Pasternak; and others

Josef Škvorecký Papers

Czech-Canadian novelist

Gleb Struve Papers

Russian-American literary historian

Andrei Siniavskii Papers

Soviet literary critic and dissident

Allen Drury Papers

US novelist; author, Advise and Consent

Irwin T. Holtzman Collection

Materials about Joseph Brodsky, Isaak Babel', and Boris Pasternak

Leopold Tyrmand Papers

Polish-American novelist

Paul M.a. Linebarger Papers

Science fiction writer "Cordwainer Smith"

Wallace Stegner Miscellaneous Papers

Research materials for his novel, The Preacher and the Slave

Firing Line Broadcast Records

Television series hosted by William F. Buckley, 1966–99

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The Hoover Institution announces its publication of Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence 1921–1960

The Hoover Institution today announced publication of the book Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence 1921–1960, translated and annotated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and edited by Maya Slater, with a foreword by Lazar Fleishman.

May 03, 2010 Stanford
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Hoover Institution Hosts Book Launch: Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence, 1921–1960

Members of the extended Pasternak family were on hand Monday, May 3, for a book launch hosted by the Hoover Institution to celebrate the release of Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence, 1921–1960, translated and annotated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, edited by Maya Slater, and with a foreword written by Lazar Fleishman (Hoover Institution Press, 2010).

May 04, 2010
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More Than Two Thousand Pages of Images Added to Pasternak Digital Archive

Hundreds of poems and letters have been added to the Pasternak family papers digital archive in the Hoover Archives reading room, including more than two hundred pages of Boris Pasternak’s poems. . . .

February 18, 2010
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Hoover Institution Cosponsoring Symposium on Dr. Zhivago; Hosting Exhibit on Boris Pasternak

The Hoover Institution is cosponsoring an international symposium titled “The Life of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago: Culture and the Cold War” with Stanford University’s School of Humanities and Sciences.

October 16, 2007
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Digital Archive of Pasternak Family Papers Now Available

The first segment of the Pasternak Family Papers digital archive is available in the Hoover Archives reading room.

October 15, 2007
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The Life of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago Culture and the Cold War

Held on Stanford campus October 19-20, 2007, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Doctor Zhivago, the symposium was sponsored by Stanford University and the Hoover Institution.

October 12, 2007
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International Conference and Exhibit on Boris Pasternak, Poet and Author of the Timeless Doctor Zhivago, Cosponsored by the Hoover Institution and Stanford University

April 22, 2004 STANFORD
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Isaac Babel, A Writer's Life (1894-1940)

Writing and violence, seduction and revolution, humanity and raw power are at the core of the spare and brilliant legacy of Isaac Babel, a Russian Jewish master of the short story, who began his career with the blessing of Maxim Gorky in 1916, rose to international renown with the publication of his Red Cavalry in 1926, and perished after Stalin waved his executioner’s wand in 1940.

January 27, 2004
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Series of Events Planned to Commemorate the Life and Art of Isaac Babel (1894-1940)

January 27, 2004 STANFORD
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