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Letter from Paul Simon, Washington D.C., to John Stanger, 1991 January 8 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
436374
Accession number
MA 23730.14
Creator
Simon, Paul, 1928-2003, sender.
Display Date
Washington D.C., 1991 January 8.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "Paul Simon / Illinois. United States Senate / Washington, DC 20510-1302."
Addressed to "Mr. John Stanger / Melrose Park School / 1715 Fake [sic] Street / Melrose Park, IL 60160."
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives.
Provenance
Purchased from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, 2020.
Summary
Writing that the Bible and Richard Wright's Black boy are the two books that have most impacted his life.