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Author/Creator:Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997.
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Title:Brendan Gill papers, 1862-1999 (bulk 1940-1998).
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Physical Description:28.17 linear feet (37 boxes)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
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Notes:In English.
Gift of the estate of Brendan Gill, 2002.
- Access and use:This material is open for research. Box 37 (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information. Box 2 (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
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Biographical / Historical note:Brendan Gill (1914-1997), American cultural critic and author and long-time staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.
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Summary:The collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal papers relating to Brendan Gill, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from the late 1930s through the 1990s. In addition to professional correspondence, there are letters between Gill and his wife Anne Barnard and other family members. Writings include materials relating to Gill's shorter works, written for The New Yorker and other magazines, and to several of his books, including two early novels, The Trouble of One House (1950) and The Day the Money Stopped (1957), a memoir, Here at the New Yorker (1975), and biographical works, Tallulah (1972), Lindbergh Alone (1980), and Many Masks (1987). Materials include drafts, proofs, research materials, artwork and photographs relating to works, and clippings (reviews). The collection also contains a considerable amount of personal and family records, including diaries, passports, photograph albums, and scrapbooks.
- Format:Archives or Manuscripts
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
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Cite as:Brendan Gill Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Subjects:Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968.
Barnard, Anne.
Gill, Brendan, 1914-1997.
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974.
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
American literature--20th century.
Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
New York (N.Y.)--Periodicals.
New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
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Genre/Form:Photographic prints.
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Occupation:Authors United States 20th century.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7187254