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Originally a short story written in French, Beckett translated it to English as Lessness and scripted it for radio. Washington University holds typescripts and a rare copy of the acting script of Lessness.

Typescript draft with corrections of Self-Interviews by James Dickey.

A mimeographed literary magazine published by John Bernard Myers, who printed the first books of John O'Hara, John Ashbery and others. It includes "Three Sketches for Europa" by James Merrill and the short story "Kritik K. and the Chateau" by David…

Achapbook published by Claude Fredericks, a poet, printer, playwright and teacher who had a romantic relationship with Merrill in the early 1950s, and who remained a lifelong friend. All but one of the nine poems in this collection were later…

Typescript draft of Six Prose Pieces by Robert Duncan, December 14, 1964.

First original autograph draft of Smiles on Washington Square by Raymond Federman, October 1981.

Family relationships are prevalent withinSounder. The film shows white supremacy as having explicit social and economic consequences for the Morgan family. This lobby card shows David Lee giving his father the cake baked by his mother. David is…

In this promotional material, Nathan Lee and his son depict the present, future, and the consistency of poverty and harsh conditions affecting a black farming family in the rural South. As an exhibition of life after the abolition of slavery, the…

Set in 1933 during The Great Depression, the characters inSounderare integrated within the natural and social landscape of a time when many Americans experienced poverty and hopelessness. To promote the film,lobby cards provided audiences with a…

Typed [carbon] draft with corrections of Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett. Texts for Nothing was translated by Beckett from the original French version, Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien, written between 1950 and 1952.