LIT. Literature, Biography, Publishing, Book Arts

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This collection contains materials relating to the publication of Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature & Art, as well as personal files of Mary Sue Koeppel.

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Pat Frank (pen name for Harry Hart Frank) was an American writer, journalist, and government consultant. Frank is best known for his 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, which chronicles life in a Central Florida town after a nuclear attack that destroys much of the state. The collection includes the typescript for Alas, Babylon, along with the typescripts, proofs and jackets for several of Frank's other works of fiction.

Abstract Frank G. Slaughter was an American surgeon and writer whose writing style as steeped heavily in religion and medicine. Slaughter published 56 books, among these, Sangaree (1948), The Road to Bithynia (1951), The Gallileans: A Novel of Mary Magdelene (1953), and The Thorn of Arimathea (1959); this collection consists of manuscripts and galley proofs of these...

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This collection includes the writings, research, and correspondence of Professor John Seelye. As a scholar of American literature, Seelye wrote academic books as well as fiction. He also served as an editor for the Penguin American Library from 1979-2006. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence between Seelye and various authors and academics in his capacity as an editor for Penguin.

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Preliminary sketches, final sketches, and page proofs for children's book illustrations by Louis Rhead.

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Letters, engravings, and memorabilia of Nathaniel Orr, the engraver/illustrator, his wife Elizabeth, and their daughters, especially Alice Orr Tredwell.

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Correspondence, photographs, poems, and other materials in the University of Florida Libraries' Archives of Recorded Poetry.

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Correspondence of the Brandt and Brandt literary agency pertaining to author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.