Hi information,
Columbia University, if you are lucky enough to be nearby, holds an
extensive collection of Jane Howard's manuscripts at the Rare Book
Manuscript Library. The collection takes up 62 linear ft. of space and
comprises about 60,000 items in 144 boxes and 6 card file boxes. It is
"available for faculty, students, or researchers engaged in scholarly
or publication projects".
Scope and Content:
"Correspondence, manuscripts (published and unpublished), drafts,
notes, journals, documents, teaching materials, scrapbooks, audio
tapes, datebooks and calendars, photographs, printed material and
memoralibia. Included are research and draft files relating to
articles written by Howard during her years on the staff of Life, as
well as materials related to her freelance writings. Also included in
the collection are research files and typescripts related to her
books: Please Touch; A Different Woman; Families; Margaret Mead: A
Life and her work-in-progress Lost in the Interior."
Jane Howard Papers: Biography: Jane Temple Howard (1935 - 1996):
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/Howard/main.html
Jane Howard, Margaret Mead's Biographer, Dies: posted June 28, 1996:
"The New York Times reported today that Jane Howard, whose works
included a critically acclamied biography of Margaret Mead and
profiles of writers such as Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, and John
Updike, died yesterday in her Manhattan home. She was 61 years old;
friends said she had been suffering with cancer."
Copyright © 1998 Poets & Writers, Inc.
http://www.pw.org/mag/news/news9606.htm
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Thank you,
hummer
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