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Title: Norman Maclean letter to Donald Kennedy
Identifier/Call Number: SCM0370
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 folder(s)
Date: 1985
Summary: Collection consists of a letter dated January 21, 1985, from Maclean to Donald Kennedy, accepting an invitation to speak at
Stanford University in April of 1985, and the text of introduction of Norman Maclean by Wallace Stegner, April 15, 1985.
creator:
Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Norman Maclean Letter to Donald Kennedy (SCM0370). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Norman Maclean taught English at the University of Chicago for forty years until his retirement in 1973. Maclean is best known
for the critically acclaimed novel A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. Wallace Earle Stegner, a prize winning novelist
and author of articles and short stories, served on the Stanford University English Department faculty from 1945 until 1971
and was the founder and for fifteen years the Director of the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Donald Kennedy was Stanford's
eighth president, serving from 1980 to 1992. Kennedy, holder of three degrees from Harvard, joined Stanford's biology faculty
in 1960 and while on leave from 1977 to 1979 served in Washington, D.C., as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Collection consists of a letter dated January 21, 1985, from Maclean to Donald Kennedy, accepting an invitation to speak at
Stanford University in April of 1985, and the text of introduction of Norman Maclean by Wallace Stegner, April 15, 1985.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Kennedy, Donald, 1931-
Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-1993
Authors, American--20th century.