BIB_ID
381963
Accession number
MA 5658.15
Creator
Hall, James B. (James Byron), 1918-2008.
Display Date
1970 Apr. 17.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (3 p. ) ; 27.8 cm
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Commenting, in his cover letter, on the state of American writers and the topics he wished had been included in the questionnaire; replying to all 39 questions and commenting in his answers on the erosion of "public confidence in fiction" and the "merchandising of inferior art for excessive profit;" naming Paul Horgan and James G. Cozzens are writers whose prose style he admires; naming "Things as They Are" [Horgan] as his favorite novel of the past five years.
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