William Eastlake Papers and Archive: Manuscripts and Letters
$150,000 · Offered by Biblio
1995. Near Fine. Archive of the American author William Eastlake consisting of several original book length manuscripts, corrected proofs, and over 100 letters to him, and other associated documents. Included are corrected typescript manuscripts for five of his major novels, including the first two novels of his acclaimed Checkerboard Trilogy: *Go in Beauty* and *The Bronc People*. Among the letters are 28 from Edward Abbey, author of *The Monkey Wrench Gang*, together with multiple letters from other leading contemporary authors and personal friends, including William Van Tilburg Clark, Jim Harrison, John Nichols, Martha Gelhorn, Barry Lopez, Ray Carver, Gary Snyder, Studs Terkel, Tim O'Brien, Robert Redford, and others, all rich in literary and personal content. Larry McCaffery noted: "Back in the late 50s and early 60s, William Eastlake was single-handedly changing the scope, poetic range, thematic assumptions, and treatment of character - especially that of Native Americans - of the Western genre. His surreal, humorous, was a decisive influence on later novelists such as Larry McMurtry and Tom McGuane." It can be argued that Eastlake had an influence on Cormac McCarthy as well. Born in Brooklyn in 1917, and raised in Caldwell, New Jersey (as an infant he and his older brother Gordon were sent to Bonnie Brae, an Episcopal boarding school in nearby Liberty Corners, New Jersey). Eastlake hitchhiked across the United States and made his way to Los Angeles in the early 1940s,
- Year: 1995
- Binding: unknown
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