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June 4, 1951.Dear Jack - Many thanks for your delightful anthology, Midland Humor, and especially for the charming inscription. The criminal master-minds who share my lot were quite awed by it, and it has given me quite a cachet in the mayhem - and - mopery set. They seem to think that an author belongs somewhere in the social scale between a preacher and a moonshiner, which in Dixie is not as large a gap as you might suppose. I've been skipping around in your book, and so far have particularly enjoyed Wilcox's With Everything So Scarce, McKinney's No Tears, No Good.and Balch's Momma Gest and the Irisher. The Peter De Vries story was well-done too, I thought, and your "Sissy" was entertaining. Algren's story has an incisive bite, as does all his stuff - The Shulman was very familiar to me from several readings of his book. Incidentally, what did Shulman ever have to say, if anything, about the contemptuous, and, to me, (over)
Title
Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959
Creator
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990
Date
n. d., 1946-1959
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
Archival Collection Title
Jack Conroy papers
Rights Status
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Call Number
Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 129
BibID
992006198805867
Size
3908px × 4849px 108.47 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00129_000018.tif
Unique Identifier
NL119YAM
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