Newberry Library - Macleod, Norman, (includes photo), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1945-1984

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Open book Macleod, Norman, (includes photo), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1945-1984

Title Macleod, Norman, (includes photo), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1945-1984

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n.d., 1945-1984

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription in pencil MacLeod, Norman [1984] PEMBROKE STATE UNIVERSITY Pembroke, North Carolina 28372 circle with book and Pembroke State University Department of Communication Arts University Nursing Center Route One Box 21 Greenville NC 27834 June 21, 1984 Dear Jack Conroy - I have heard from Douglas Wixson that you had a Jack Conroy Day Celebration in Moberly recently and that my old friend William Pedes was there - Bill and I were assistant professors of English together at The University of Maryland during WWII. I also hear that Lawrence Hill & Co has brought out a underline Portable Jack Conroy Reader / underline and that you will have finished your autobiography soon and That Wixson is working on a biography of you. This is all wonderful news & I want to congratulate you on all of this Most well deserved recognition. I also have heard that Lawrence Hill has published a rather nasty biography of Langston Hughes by Faith Berry. This was distressful news for me because I have always considered Lang to have been a splendid fellow. I knew him in NYC during the early thirties. I traveled with him from LA through Las Vegas when it was a small cow town to the building of Boulder Dam, the grand Canyon & back to LA; I was in Moscow when Lang was there; when I visited Ezra pound at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in 1950, Langston was there; and I received a good postcard from Lang shortly before he died. I think it a shame that a nasty biography full of unsupported accusations should have been published about him by Lawrence Hill. Do you (over) An Equal Opportunity Employer A constituent Institution of the University of North Carolina System.

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 19 Folder 974

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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