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Title: Leopold Tyrmand Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1941-1985
Collection number: 86015
Creator:
Tyrmand, Leopold
Extent:
25 manuscript boxes, 4 envelopes
(10.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, diaries, correspondence, notes, and printed matter, relating to social
conditions in Poland, cultural conditions in communist countries, popular culture in the
United States and other Western countries, standards of sexual behavior in the United
States, and American conservative thought. Includes fictional writings.
Language:
English and
Polish.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Leopold Tyrmand Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1986.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Poland--Social conditions.
Communism and culture.
United States--Civilization.
Civilization, Modern--20th century.
Sex customs--United States.
Poles--United States.
American literature.
Polish literature.
Conservatism--United States.
Communism.
Poland.
United States--Politics and government.
| 1920, May 16 | Born, Warsaw, Poland |
| 1938-1939 | Student, Department of Architecture, L'Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
| 1941 | Wilno, Soviet occupied zone, arrested and sentenced for 25 years for political activities |
| 1942-1944 | Voluntary labor, Germany |
| 1944 | Concentration camp prisoner, Norway |
| 1946 | Chief-correspondent, Polish Press Agency, Norway |
| 1946 | Returned to Poland |
| 1947-1948 | Assumed various positions as journalist |
| 1949-1953 | Joined Tygodnik Powszechny |
| 1954 | Wrote Dziennik, 1954 |
| 1955 | Author, Zly |
| 1956 | Organized First Jazz Music Festival |
| 1959 | Author, Seven Long Voyages |
| 1961 | Author, Filip |
| 1964 | Suspended from publishing |
| 1965 | Traveled around Europe |
| 1966 | State Department invitation to U.S. |
| 1967 | U.S. permanent residence |
| 1967 | Published first essays, New Yorker Magazine |
| 1968-1969 | Lecturer, Slavic Literature Department, Columbia University |
| 1970 | Author, Notebook of a Dilettante |
| 1970 | Editor, Kultura Essays, Explorations in Freedom |
| 1971 | Married Mary Ellen Fox |
| 1972 | Author, Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative |
| 1976-1980 | Associate Director, Rockford College |
| 1977-1985 | Editor, Chronicles of Culture |
| 1978 | Author, Media Shangri-La |
| 1981 | Appointed Vice-President, Rockford College
Edits, Rockford Papers |
| 1985 | Author, Ugly, Beautiful People |
| 1985, March, 19 | Died, Fort Myers, Florida |