Newberry Library - Smith, Kathleen R., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1970-1971

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Open book Smith, Kathleen R., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1970-1971

Title Smith, Kathleen R., Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1970-1971

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1970-1971

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription 4819 W. 139th Street
Hawthorne, Calif. 90250
December 8, 1970
Dear Mr. Conroy,

You are a rare, extraordinary person. One who answers letters, and one who writes so vividly.

Thank you for your good suggestions. I did an interesting experiment with Josephine Herbst prose.
I taped two hours of The Rope of Gold and played it back. I hoped to learn why her character never
got off the page. I believe one reason is that her prose style was entirely unsuited to her story line. In
that book, indeed in all her books, her people are sterile and defeated. somehow the reader does not
believe they will shape a better social order. Jonathan couldn't write anymore. Victoria couldn't bear a
living child. Neither of then could love. Out of death they try to create a decent world. No Way! In
your novel The Disinherited the characters are so alive they jump our of the pages. Perhaps Miss
Herbst's portrait of you as Barney Evans

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 28 Folder 1448

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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