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James E. Allen - Artist, Illustrator, Printmaker
James E. and Grace Parmelee Allen
The "James E. Allen papers, 1921-1949" in the Smithsonian and the artist's file in the Smithsonian Library contain a good deal of the personal papers of the artist -- correspondence, sketchbooks, clippings, etc. Much more is still in the hands of his family. They contain valuable glimpses into his life and career in the form of photos, letters, and personal notes. Of particular value is a handful of hand-written and typed biographies from friends, family and the artist himself covering different parts of his life. Original documents are part of the Allen catalog; transcribed texts are provided here.
In addition Allen's great nephew Allen Rizzi has graciously allowed his brief biography that has appeared online in the past to be included here.
For additional biographical sources, see the Citations page in this exhibit. (photo from the Allen Family Papers)
Finally, we have Allen's own words in a short bio as part of a letter dated Aug 5, 1950 concerning his upc
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List of unpublished books
This is a list of unpublished books by notable people, alphabetized by author. These notable people may be published authors, but not necessarily.
Unpublished fiction
- Sholem Aleichem: Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son, left unfinished at the time of his death
- Charles Alverson: The Word, Caleb and Lost in Austin
- Allen Appel: Sea of Time (1988), unpublished novel in the published Alex Balfour Pastmaster series
- L. Frank Baum: Our Married Life (1912), Johnson (1912), The Mystery of Bonita (1914) and Molly Oodle (1915). Reported in Katherine Rogers' L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz and Michael Patrick Hearn's The Annotated Wizard of Oz. According to Hearn, although not a published statement, The Mystery of Bonita is mentioned in contracts related to The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. The others are noted on file folders that once contained them and correspondence recovered from the Reilly & Lee offices, but the manuscripts themselves remain lost. The books were intended for adult readers and correspondence for the first o
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The diary of an (un)published novelist aged 33 and three-quarters
Arrive at the writing conference, which is full of little old ladies trying to sell their gothic romances, and tweedy men clutching their hand-written spy thrillers. Actually, everyone’s very friendly, but the message from the professionals is the same. Chick lit RIP. Feel really disheartened as I’ve entered my book in the ‘opening to a novel’ contest at the conference. If chick lit is so out of fashion, it won’t stand a chance. I wonder if I might win something in the short story category, but when that doesn’t happen, I sulk… The judges are going on about how the novel competition had more entries than any other (over 400) and I’m wondering if I can sneak off… when they say: ‘And in first place, Old School Ties.’ Nearly fall off my chair. Then the woman in charge says: ‘And the publishers who helped judge the competition say they’d love to see the whole manuscript.’ I have rather a lot of drinks, even though I feel drunk with excitement already. Some miserable git in the bar says ‘huh, doesn’t mean anything, they
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