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ca. 1970-1998
Special Collections M0973
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Title: Oliver Mayer Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1970-1998
Collection number: Special Collections M0973
Creator:
Mayer, Oliver.
Extent:
16.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Purchased, 1998.
[Identification of item] Oliver Mayer Papers, M0973, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Los Angeles playwright with a Latino background. His mother is Mexican-American, an actress who gave up the theatre for marriage;
his late father, Alexander, was a film and television art director. A self-described "punk" in high school, Mayer went on
to a highly successful academic career at Cornell, Oxford and Columbia universities. BLADE TO THE HEAT has received the most
attention of the some dozen plays he has written. He inherited his passion for boxing from his father and Mexican grandfather
and trained in the sport from the ages of 13 to 15.
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, childhood stories and drawings, correspondence, diaries, business papers and
letters, press reviews and coverage, publications, posters, and photographs.