James Perkins' Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren (Volume 3) Material
This collection contains material for the 2006 publication Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952 (Volume 3), edited by Randy Hendricks, James A. Perkins, and William Bradford Clark. Most of the material is copies of Warren's letters with edits by Perkins. There are also drafts and a page proof of the manuscript, as well as correspondence with the publisher, Louisiana State University Press.
The collection consists of four series: Series I: Copies of Robert Penn Warren Correspondence; Series II: Edited Correspondence Transcriptions, with notes from the editors; Series III: Drafts of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952; and Series IV: Other Papers, which includes correspondence with the publishers. Most of the material dates from between 2004 and 2006. The original Robert Penn Warren correspondence, which is photocopied and included in the collection, dates from 1941 to 1952, though the copies and edits by the publishers date from 2004 to 2006.
For similar collections, see MS.2834: James Perkins' The Cass Mastern Material Papers, 1996-2005, and MS.2637: the David Madden Papers, 1968-2001.
Dates
- 2004-2006, undated
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Extent
1.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection contains material for the 2006 publication Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952 (Volume 3), edited by Randy Hendricks, James A. Perkins, and William Bradford Clark. Most of the material is copies of Warren's letters with edits by Perkins. There are also drafts and a page proof of the manuscript, as well as correspondence with the publisher, Louisiana State University Press.
Biographical/Historical Note
James Ashbrook Perkins was born in Covington, Kentucky on February 7, 1941. After attending Holmes High School, he obtained degrees from Centre College (1963), Miami University (1965), and The University of Tennessee (1972), where he got his PhD in English. After a year as instructor at UTK, Perkins was hired to teach creative writing and American literature at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he has stayed.
Perkins has participated in four summer seminars and institutes hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities. At a seminar under R. W. B. Lewis, Perkins was reintroduced to the work of Robert Penn Warren and has spent almost two decades researching and writing about Warren. Perkins has authored and edited a number of books on Robert Penn Warren, including Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions, The Cass Mastern Material, and Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952 (Volume 3). He is also a poet and writer of short stories. His most recent collection of stories is Snakes, Butterbeans and the Discovery of Electricity, published by Mercer University Press.
Arrangement
Collection consists of two boxes in three series:
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- Series I: Copies of Robert Penn Warren Correspondence, 2004, undated
- Series II: Edited Correspondence Transcriptions, 2004, undated
- Series III: Drafts of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952, 2004-2006, undated
- Series IV: Other Papers, 2004-2006
Acquisition Note
Collection is property of the UT Special Collections Library.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository