League of American Writers Archives, [ca. 1935-1942]

Summary

Creators:

League of American Writers

Abstract:

Administrative, correspondence, congresses, affiliated group and publication materials concerning the activities and interests of the League.

Extent:

Number of containers: 6 boxes, 5 oversize folders

Language:

English

Background

Biographical / historical:

The League of American Writers was established in April, 1935, at the First American Writers' Congress, to be "a voluntary association of writers dedicated to the preservation and extension of a truly democratic culture." Waldo Frank was elected to be the first national chairman.

In pursuit of its aim to combat the forces of fascism and reaction, the League greatly expanded its activities under the leadership of Donald Ogden Stewart and Franklin Folsom, who were chosen respectively as national chairman and executive secretary at the second Writers Congress in 1937. Many famous anti-fascist writers were rescued from concentration camps in Europe by the Exiled Writers Committee; thousands of dollars were collected for medical aid to the Spanish Loyalists; violations of civil liberties and instances of illiberalism in the United States were publicized and protested.

Establishment and maintenance of writers' schools and regional writers' conferences, continuing forums, meetings, lectures, and the organization of four writers' congresses on a national scale reflected the League's interest in the furtherance of American letters. Its publications afford additional records of the political and literary activities of the group from its inception until its dissolution in 1942.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Related resources

Other descriptive data:

The archives of the League of American Writers were purchased by the Berkeley Library of the University of California from Franklin Folsom in 1966. The collection has been microfilmed and the master negative is on file in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Students and researchers who wish to publish quotations from these materials must secure permission from the owners of the literary rights.

The archives are organized in twenty-six parts, in which the original arrangement has been preserved as nearly as possible:

Part 1-7
• Administrative records
Part 8
• Correspondence and papers by individual authors
Part 9-12
• National congresses
Part 13-21
• Records of affiliated groups
Part 22
• Publications
Part 23
• Photographs (Transferred to pictorial collection)
Part 24
• Negatives
Part 25
• Undated miscellany
Part 26
• Clippings

Indexed terms

Indexes:

Author Index to Correspondence and Papers

Albee, George	8:A1
Alegria, Ciro	12:3
Allsberg, Henry G.	10:7
Anderson, Sherwood	8:A2-3
Appel, Benjamin	12:1
Aptheker, Herbert	12:2
Aragon, Louis	8:A4-513:3
Arnold, Thurman	8:A6
Auden, Wystan Hugh	8:A7
Banning, Margaret Culkin	8:B1-3
Barnes, Joseph	8:B4
Barnouw, Erik	12:2
Benes, Edvard	8:B5
Benet, Stephen Vincent	8:B6
Bessie, Alvah	12:3
Biddle, Francis	8:B7
Biele, Harry	8:C8
Blake, Ellen	8:A2
Bloch, Ernest	8:B8
Bodenheim, Maxwell	10:7
Bodet, J. Torres	12:3
Bonner, Amy	8:B
Botkin, B. A.	8:B10-11
Brand, Millen	8:B1212:1
Brandon, Tom	8:M4
Brewster, Dorothy	8:B1312:2
Bromfield, Louis	8:B14
Brooks, Obed	8:B15
Brooks, Van Wyck	8:B16-20L11
Browder, Earl	10:7
Buck, Pearl S.	8:B21
Budzislawski, Herman	8:B22
Burgum, Edwin Berry	12:2
Burt, Struthers	8:B24-25
Caldwell, Erskine	8:C1-2
Canby, Henry S.	8:C5
Carlisle, Harry	10:7
Carneiro, Cecelio J.	12:3
Carse, Robert	8:C612:1
Chevigny, Hector	12:2
Clurman, Harold	8:C7
Cole, Joseph H.	8:C8
Copland, Aaron	8:C9
Corey, Lewis	8:C10
Corwin, Norman	8:C11
Cowley, Malcolm	8:C12-1410:7
Crichton, Kyle	10:7
Cronbach, Robert	12:1
Day-Lewis, Cecil	8:D1-2
Deutsch, Babette	8:L14
Dillon, George	8:D3-4
Domini, Ambrogio	8:D5
Donato, Pietro di	8:D6
Draper, Muriel	10:7
Drasutin, Fodor	8:W21
Dreiser, Theodore	8:D7-15
Duranty, Walter	10:7
Early, Stephen	8:R13-18
Einstein, Albert	8:E1
Falcon, Cesar	12:3
Fearing, Kenneth	8:F1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield	8:F2-4
Flexner, Eleanor	12:2
Folsom, Franklin	12:18:F5 (and passim.)
Frank, Waldo	8:F6-8
Frankfurter, Felix	8:F9-10
Franzen, Erich	8:F11
Freeman, Joseph	8:F12
Gelihorn, Martha	10:7
Georg, Manfred	8:G1
Gilbert, Enrique Gil	12:3
Gold, Michael	8:L1612:2
Graf, Oskar Maria	8:G2-3
Grafton, Samuel	8:G4
Graves, Lillian M.	8:L17
Greenleaf, Richard	8:G5
Gregory, Horace	8:G6
Guthrie, Ramon	8:G7
Hale, Hope	8:H1
Halper, Albert	8:H2
Hammett, Dashiell	8:H312:1
Harris, Tjader	12:1
Hart, Henry	10:7
Hemingway, Ernest	8:C12H4-610:7
Herskovits, Melville J.	8:H7-9
Hicks, Granville	10:7
Hoffmeister, Adolf	8:H10-11
Holmes, Eugene C.	12:1
Hook, Sidney	8:19
Hudicourt, Max L.	8:H12
Huebsch, B. W.	8:H13-14
Hughes, Langston	8:H15
Humphries, Ralph	10:7
Hurst, Fannie	8:H16-18
Ivens, Joris	10:7
Jackson, Gardner	8:J1
Jackson, Robert Houghwout	8:J2
Kennell, Ruth Epperson	12.3
Kent, Paul	12:1
Kent, Rockwell	12:1
Klein, Jerome	12:1
Knight, Eric	8:K1
Koerner, Daniel	12:1
LaFarge, Oliver	8:L3,5,1
LaMore, Chet	12:1
Lanham, Edwin	8:L6
Lapsley, Mary	12:3
Laredo, Federico	8:L7
Lawson, John Howard	12:2-3
Lengyel, Emil	8:18
Lennon, Florence Becker	8:19-29
Leonhard, Rudolf	8:L30-33
Lerner, Max	8:L34
Lozowick, Louis	12:1
Ludwig, Emil	8:L35
Lyra, Carmen	12:3
McCausland, Elizabeth	12:1
McFee, William	8:M1
McHenry, Beth	8:L15
McKay, Claude	8:L18
MacLeish, Archibald	8:M2-3410:7
Maltz, Albert	8:M35-37
Mann, Heinrich	8:M39
Mann, Klaus	8:M38
Mann, Thomas	8:M40-44
Maurois, Andre	8:M45
Meisel, James H.	8:L28
Messersmith, George	7:36
Mumford, Lewis K.	8:L25M46-48
Muzzey, David S.	8:A3
Nathan, Robert	8:N1
Nelken, Margarita	12:3
Neuwirth, Morris	12:1
Oboler, Arch	8:01
Osmers, Frank C.	8:W10
Page, Charles	12:1
Parker, Dorothy	8:P1
Prokosch, Frederic	8:P3
Putnam, Samuel	8:P412:1,3
Radwanski, Thaddeus A.	8:R1
Raymond, Margaret Thomsen	12:30
Reade, Leslie	8:R2
Regler, Gustav	8:R3
Renn, Ludwig	8:R4-711:4
Rexroth, Kenneth	8:R8
Richards, Robert	12:2
Riesel, Victor	8:L16
Robinson, Earl	8:R9
Roe, Wellington	8:R1012:1
Rome, Harold J.	8:R11
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano	8:R12-18
Rosotov, T.	8:R19
Saroyan, William	8:S1
Schappes, Morris U.	8:32
Schneider, Isidor	8:33
Schuman, Henry	8:M15-16
Seldes, George	8:34-5
Shayon, Robert Lewis	8:36
Shecan, Vincent	8:S7-13
Sherwood, Robert	8:S14
Sillen, Samuel	12:3
Sinclair, Upton	8:S15-21
Snow, Edgar	8:S22
Speer, Robert K.	12:1
Spender, Stephen	8:S23
Stead, Christina	8:S24
Stewart, Donald Ogden	8:325-610:712:1
Stuart, Robert	8:S27
Taggard, Genevieve	8:T1-212:1
Tao, H. C.	10:7
Thomas, J. Parnell	8:S5
Toller, Ernst	8:T3
Tong, Jocelyn	8:L27
Uhse, Bodo	8:U1
Undset, Sigrid	8:U2
Untermeyer, Jean Starr	8:U3
Van Doren, Carl	8:V1-2
Wallace, Henry A.	8:W1
Ward, Lem	12:2
Ward, Lynd	12:3
Ward, Mary McNeer	12:3
Warner, H. M.	8:W2
Warner, Sylvia Townsend	8:W3-5
Westlake, Neda	8:D16
Wheelwright, John	8:L12, 18
Wilder, Thornton	8:W6-8
Wiley, Max	8:W9
Williams, Albert Rhys	10:7
Williams, Florence	8:W10
Williams, William Carlos	8:W10-13
Winwar, Frances	8:L10
Wolf, Else	8:W14
Wolf, Friedrich	8:W15-22
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott	8:W23
Wright, Richard	8:2412:1
Zukofsky, Louis	8:R8

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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