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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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Remembering Joseph Brodsky: 1940–1996

The exhibit Remembering Joseph Brodsky: 1940–1996 continues in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion. It includes books (many of which are special editions), manuscripts, and photographs, some never before published.

February 28, 2001
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Hoover Institution Exhibit Extended: Remembering Joseph Brodsky, 1940–1996 continues to February 2001

September 27, 2000 STANFORD
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