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Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, scrapbooks, audio tapes, datebooks and calendars, photographs, printed material, and memorabilia. Included are files relating to articles which she researched and wrote while on the staff of LIFE magazine, especially on popular figures in current literature and the arts. There are also research files and typescripts for her books: PLEASE TOUCH, A DIFFERENT WOMAN, and FAMILIES. Among the correspondents are: Paul Bowles, Agnes de Mille, Ken Kesey, and Hope Cooke Namgyal
ADDITION: Research files for FAMILIES & research files, typescripts, and note cards for MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE and unpublished manuscripts and related research files.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.
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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jane Howard papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Deposited by Jane Howard, 1979, 1985, 1989& 1996.
Source of acquisition--Howard, Jane. Method of acquisition--Deposit; Date of acquisition--1979. Accession number--M-1979.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed RL 06/--/1989.
2010-02-11 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Jane Temple Howard (1935-1996), journalist and author. was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter of Eleanor Nee Howard and newspaper reporter Robert Pickerell Howard. She received her A.B. degree from the University of Michigan in 1956. She also received an honorary D.Litt. from Grinell College in 1979 and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hamline University in 1984. Howard worked for LIFE magazine from 1956 until 1972 as a reporter, assistant editor, associate editor, and finally staff writer. She wrote numerous features for LIFE including interviews with Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, John Updike, and Jacqueline Susann. Beginning in 1989, she worked for several years at LEAR'S magazine as a contributing editor and author of the monthly interview column"A Woman for LEAR'S." As a freelance writer, Howard contributed to SMITHSONIAN, ESQUIRE, THE WASHINGTON POST "BOOK WORLD", MADEMOISELLE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, and numerous other publications. Howard's first book, PLEASE TOUCH: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE HUMAN POTENTIAL MOVEMENT was published in 1970. A DIFFERENT WOMAN appeared in 1973, FAMILIES in 1978, and the biography, MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE, in 1990. At the time of her death, Howard was writing a book under the working title LOST IN THE INTERIOR which was to be a personal and historical account of the midwest.
Also enjoying a successful teaching career, Howard was a visiting lecturer at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (Fall 1974), the University of Georgia School of Journalism (Spring 1975), Yale University English Department (Spring 1976), and the SUNY Albany English Department (Winter 1978). She was a John Steinbeck Writer-in-Residence at Southampton College (Summer 1982), and a James Thurber Writer-in Residence at Ohio State University (Fall 1986). During the summers of 1989 and 1990, Howard led non-fiction writing workshops at the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. She was also a professor of creative writing at Columbia University for several years during the 1990s.
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[1 newspaper clipping enclosed]
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[only one card to Dave Scherman, five to J.T.H.]
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[Includes letters from Jane Howard to other people in the general "H" file.]
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[Also includes a folder of miscellaneous correspondence]
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[Also includes some clippings, flyers and miscellaneous items.]
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[Includes letters from R.P. Howard and Ann C. Howard]
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[Includes many letters from R.P. Howard to Jane Howard; correspondence from the Condon Family; sympathy correspondence regarding the death of R. P. Howard.]
Research materials, Boxes 71 - 77, Boxes 71 - 74 are arranged alphabetically by individuals' last names.
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[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes.]
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[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes.]
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[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes.]
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[Includes correspondence, research materials, notes, and one folder of misc. items.]
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[Includes notes and drafts.]
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[Includes notes and post-publication materials.]
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[Includes books, booklets, clippings, pamphlets, brochures and misc.]
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[Includes notes, fragmentary drafts, promotional and touring materials and book reviews. Some material may also refer toA Different Woman.]
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[Includes notes, fragmentary drafts, promotional and touring materials, clippings and book reviews.]
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[Includes printed matter, notes, drafts, promotional and touring materials, clippings and book reviews. Some material may also refer toFamilies.]
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[Includes research materials, printed matter, clippings, notes and general correspondence.]
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[Includes research materials, printed matter, clippings, notes, a list of travels and author's bibliographies.]
Box 83
[Includes research materials, topical research, printed matter, clippings, notes, xeroxed articles and book exerpts.]
Box 84
[Includes mostly typed drafts with handwritten edits.]
Box 85
[Includes mostly typed drafts with handwritten edits, fragments of drafts, structure notes, interveiw notes, travel journal fragments, Hoard Family reunion materials and various research materials.]
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[Includes pamphlets, booklets, brochures, maps, directories, newsletters, magazines, and other miscellaneous items.]
Boxes 87 - 88, most likely derived from research for theLost in the Interiorproject.
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[As their subject matter is the Midwest, it is likely that these unpublished manuscripts are the result of the research and writing that Howard placed under the heading Lost in the Interior.]
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[Box also inclues notes, research and progress reports.]
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[Includes an index of published articles, clippings, notebooks, interview notes and various related items.]
Boxes 90 - 97, "A Woman for Lear's" column. Boxes 90 - 92: pieces published in the column. Boxes 93 - 97: unpublished pieces, drafts, nominations or research on candidates.
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[Includes various background materials on subjects, interviews, notes and revisions, proofs and related correspondence.]
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[Includes various background materials on subjects, interviews, notes and revisions, proofs and related correspondence.]
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[Includes instructions for finding candidates, master lists of candidates from 1989 - 1992, various background materials on subjects, interviews, notes and revisions, proofs and related correspondence.]
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[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]
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[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]
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[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]
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[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and related correspondence.]
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[Includes research and background materials regarding candidates and nominees, drafts, notes, rejected candiates and drafts and misc. ]
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[Includes research materials, drafts, notes, clips, interview materials, galleys.]
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[Includes research materials, drafts, notes, clips, interview materials and book review materials.]
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[Includes research materials, drafts, notes, clips and interview materials.]
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[Includes research and book review materials, drafts, notes, lists of published freelance articles, loose clips and a yellow binder of clips.]
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[Includes research and interview materials, drafts, notes, clips and galleys.]
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Box 103
[Includes interview notes and drafts, autobiographical writings,a spiral notebook and research materials. Some fragments are undated, unidentified or possibly unpublished.]
Box 104
[Includes partial manuscripts and drafts -- some with comments by Jane Howard --, an interview with Howard, and a signed MFA thesis by Jane Smiley.]
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[Includes materials from Jane Howard's speeches regarding various publications, speeches given at colleges and universities, miscellaneous speaking engagements and correspondence regarding speaking requests.]
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[Includes evaluations, reading list, stories by students, Split Rock catalog.]
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[Includes "Advice on Teaching Writing," reading lists, "Exemplary Prose," "What Teaching's Taught Me," and examples of the use of humor in writing.]
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[ Includes materials regarding biographical writing, many of materials are from the Columbia Writing Division.]
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1961 - 1977, 20 volumes, 8 folders folder
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[Entries transcribed from handwritten journals and edited. Some dates unclear.]
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[Includes a yearbook, school papers, pieces written for school publications.]
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[Includes childhood drawings, writings by Robert P. Howard, address lists, home inventories, genealogical information, and items regarding various family members' deaths, marriages, retirement, military service.]
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[Chicago Foundation for Literature Award, New Trier High School, University of Michigan, Grinnell College, Hamline University.]
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[Includes materials used in research, clippings and newsprint, dust jackets, and items from travel and speaking engagements or requests.]
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[Clippings saved by Jane Howard]
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[Clippings and some handwritten notes]
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[Includes media coverage of J.H. and clippings, autobiographical notes, lists of published works, and a handwritten list of stories written]
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[Includes information about and reviews of books, information about creative writing, and clippings about libraries.]
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[Includes items regarding television, radio, the press.]
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[Includes items regarding the Symphony of the United Nations and Joseph Eger.]
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[Eastern and Western religions]
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[Mostly personal items including lists, Howard's plan for arranging her personal papers, fragmentary writings and notes, unidentified writings, book ideas.]
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[Many tapes relate to the Margaret Mead: A Life project.]
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[Includes reviews, clippings, correspondence.]
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[Red binder also contains some photographs]
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Alphabetically arranged cards in black metal box
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