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Fink, Janice, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1943-1950

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Title Fink, Janice, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1943-1950

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n. d., 1943-1950

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Bohemianism, New Left, Radicalism in literature, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription 4.
him. Some of the anger and defiance I felt got over into the writing, I am afraid. I think he has a great deal on the ball. He has the same kind of feeling for poetic violence that you see in the plays of Webster (know him?) There is something of the Gothic in him too. His ties with realism are strong, but there is certainly about some of his characters the Webster giant - evil feeling. If he had the subterranean fury of feeling under control, as Webster has, he could do very interesting things. I don't think he is temperamentally fitted to write books exposing a particular district. His whole treatment is far too intense for good reporting. But his kind of writing has always fascinated me.

As a person he gives me inferiority complexes. And I have a hard enough time with those anyway.
Your Bontemps I like very much. He is kindly and gentle and

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 10 Folder 479

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3435px × 4928px 48.46 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00010_fl_00479_000004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11A578

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