COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, manuscripts, class lecture notes, reviews, photographs, and other papers of an author and professor of English. Works include Kayo and Rowan's Progress; University papers relate to the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs. Correspondence consists of literary fan mail, letters relating to literature, publishing, humanity and literary foundations, and recommendations. Correspondents include James Dickey, Archie Ammons, John Cheever, Stephen Jay Gould, E. M. Forster, Denise Levertov, Walker Percy, and Eudora Welty.
Dates
- (ca. 1948-1990)
Creator
- McConkey, James. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
James McConkey is an author and professor emeritus of English at Cornell University.
Extent
5.2 cubic feet. (5.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts, class lecture notes, reviews, photographs, and other papers of an author and professor of English. Works include Kayo and Rowan's Progress; University papers relate to the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs. Correspondence consists of literary fan mail, letters relating to literature, publishing, humanity and literary foundations, and recommendations. Correspondents include James Dickey, Archie Ammons, John Cheever, Stephen Jay Gould, E. M. Forster, Denise Levertov, Walker Percy, and Eudora Welty.
Physical Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, class lecture notes, reviews, photographs, and other papers.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- S. Kayfetz, P. McCray
- Date completed:
- March 1998
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2003
CORRESPONDENTS IN THE JAMES McCONKEY PAPERS
- A
- Abel, Lynn
- Abrams, Ken and Madeline
- Abrams, Mike
- Ackerman, Diane
- Adelson, Judith
- Albert, Barry (Vanguard Phenomena)
- Alan Sutton Publishing
- Albro, Edward
- Alfrey, Mabel
- Ali, Robbie
- Alinkski, Alice
- Alter, Robert
- American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- American Poetry Review
- Ammons, Archie
- Anderson, Donald
- Anderson, Margaret
- Anderson, Mark
- Andrews, Richard
- Ansay, Manette
- Archibald, Douglas (Colby Quarterly)
- Arnon, Hariette
- Atheneum Publishers
- Auspach, Elizabeth
- Avon Books
- B
- Babson, S.
- Elizabeth Baer (Sweet Briar College)
- Bailey, Holly
- Bailey, Yevnige
- Bain, Jane
- Baird, Alan and Laura
- Baker, Michael (Akros - literary magazine)
- Baker, Temper
- Barber, Kathleen
- Barth, John (Johns Hopkins University)
- Batchelder, Edward
- Bates, Madelaine (Pequod)
- Bayles, Martha
- Baynes, Roger
- Beaman, Nancy
- Beck, Susan
- Beheler, Shawn
- Belsky, Simone
- Bent, Timothy (Arcade Publishing)
- Bergamo, Ralph
- Berk, Ann
- Berman-English, Jeff
- Big Sur Lodge, Reservations Manager
- Bjorklund, Joan
- Black, Gerry
- Black, Lynn (South Oaks Hospital)
- Blais, Marie-Claire
- Blevins, Steve
- Blitzer, Frances
- Bolgiano, Liz
- Booth, Dan
- Booth, Philip
- Bourjaily, Tina
- Bowman, Robert
- Boyd, John
- Brevetti, Vickey
- Brewer, Bob (PAL Engergy Corp)
- Brodkey, Harold
- Brooks, Peggy
- Brotherton, Herb
- Broughton, Alan
- Brown, Bruce
- Brown, Dan
- Brown, Emerson (Vanderbilt University)
- Buell, Fred
- Buhariwala, Shernavaz
- Burak, David
- Burstein, Judith
- C
- Callahan, Eleanor
- Carlson, Arlene
- Carpenter, Evalyn
- Carpenter, Fred
- Carpenter, Nelson
- Carpenter, Ralph
- Carry, Patricia (Knight, Carry, Bliss and Co)
- Cartes, Paul
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cash, Jean (James Madison University)
- Cattarulla, Kay
- Caudill, Lousie; and Susie
- Chambers, Henry
- Cheever, John
- Chekhov Festival
- Cheong, Fiona
- Cimarron Review
- Clark, Gary
- Claypool, Naomi
- Clermont, Pam
- Clingen, Bob
- Cody, Paul
- Cohen, Peter
- Coleman, Dan
- Coleman, Elizabeth (Bennington College)
- Collette, Carolyn (Mount Holyoke College)
- Conde, Helene
- Cone, Molly
- Conley, Cort
- Conrad, Kathryn (University of Missouri Press)
- Coombs, Mary
- Cooper, Bernard
- Coover, Robert (Brown University)
- Cornell, Jennie
- Cornell University
- Cousar, Gertrude
- Coward, McCann, and Geoghan Publishers
- Crowell, Robert (Thomas Y. Crowell Company)
- Cukor, Martha
- Cusack, Crispin
- Cushman, Stephen
- Czekala, Patricia
- D
- Daniel, John (Fithian Press)
- Davies, Rob (Windhover)
- Davies, Ruth
- Day, Bob and Lorene
- De Angelis, Paul (Dutton, Kodansha)
- De Freitas, Sonia Maria
- Delblanco, Nicholas (Bennington College)
- DeLeeuw, Jane
- Dendel, Esther
- Depta, Victor
- Detweiler, Mrs. Joseph
- Dickey, James
- Dickey, Shirley
- Dickey, William
- Dickinson, Amy
- Dillard, Annie
- Diment, Galya (University of Washington)
- Dodds, John
- Donnelly, Karen
- Donovan, Hope
- Doubleday
- Dow, Miriam
- Dozier, David
- Dozier, Eleanor
- Drell, Persis
- Dunlop, Terrence
- Duran, Jane
- Durning, Steve
- Dutton, [E.P.]
- Dyer, Steve
- E
- Earling, Debra
- Eastman, Linda
- Edellerach, Michela
- Ehrlich, Rachel
- Eisinger, Gloria
- Elbel, Lilla
- Elliott, George
- Elliott, Mary
- Ellis, Jack
- Elmira College
- Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Trust
- Exelbirt, Gisa
- F
- Fairbanks, Harold
- Farbman, Evelyn
- Feldstein, Peter
- Fine, Jack
- Fish, Karen
- Fitz Gerald, Greg
- Flanagan, Lucette
- Fleishman, Melanie (Soho Press)
- Flory, Pheobe
- Forster, E.M.
- Frank, Charles
- Freedman, Richard
- Friedman, Bob
- Friedman, Daisy
- Frisch, Mia
- Furst, Jay
- Furtwangler, Ginny
- G
- Galileo Press
- Gancher, Sarah
- Gardner, John (Morley Library)
- Gaston, Paul
- Geistlinger, Lee
- Gelfman, Jane (John Farquharson Ltd)
- Geske, Anna
- Gibon, Horace
- Gilliland, Mary
- Gish, Shirley
- Godine, David (Publisher)
- Goeke, Greacian
- Golden, Les
- Goldman, Jack (The Bookpress)
- Goldsmith, John
- Goldsmith, Marianne
- Goldsworthy, Joan (Contemporary Authors)
- Goodwin, Steve
- Gordon, Robbie
- Gosling, Enid (McConkey)
- Gossette, Lois
- Gould, Stephen
- Graver, Elizabeth
- Gray, Geneva
- Greenslade, Victor
- Greer, Jack
- Greppin, John
- Grey, David
- Griff, Allan
- Grimm, Ellen
- Grossman, Larry
- Grossman, Patricia
- Grutzmacher, Harold
- Guerard, Maclin
- Guggenheim Foundation
- Gund, Theo
- Gunn, Charles
- Gusewelle, Charles
- Gutierrez, Steve
- Gutt, Ruth
- H
- Haag, George
- Hackett, Marcia
- Hagopian, John
- Hall, Tim
- Halle Brothers Co.
- Halperin, Irving
- Hannesson, Johann
- Hannesson, Winston
- Harcourt, Brace, and Co
- Harding, Amelia
- Harkins, William
- Harper and Row Publishers
- Harper Collins Publishers
- Harris, Anita
- Hartman, Carl
- Hartman, Catherine (Everest House)
- Hartman, Penny
- Hartmann, Darcy
- Haskell, Ann
- Haugaard, Janet
- Hawley, Jane
- Hay, Mrs. Leonard
- Healey, Linda
- Heidt, Charles
- Heinemann, Gisella
- Helfgott, Roy
- Henig, Robin
- Hewitt, Geoff
- Hill, Connie
- Hill, Jean
- Hill, Tom
- Himes, George
- Hobbies, Cal
- Hoffman, Alice
- Hoffman, Jan (The Village Voice)
- Hoftyzer, Hazel
- Hogge, Lige and Norma
- Holbrook, Anna
- Holt, Irina
- Hongo, Garrett
- Horton, Giana
- Horstman, Larry
- Howard, Marie
- Hudnut, Herbert
- Hudson, Jean
- Hudson Review
- Hull, Julia
- Hungry Mind Review
- Hush, Jeff
- Hyams, Paul
- Hyperion
- I
- Ingram Merrill Foundation
- Irey, Randy
- Isley, Helen
- Ithaca College
- J
- Jackson, Caroline
- Jackson, Pat
- Jacobi, Mary
- Jacobs, Geneva
- Jacobs, Julie and Larry
- Jacobsen, Josephine
- James, Bob
- Jayne, Alice
- Jeannette, Mary
- Jeffers, Tom
- Jeffrey, Bess
- Jenkins, Eddie
- Jennison, Katherine
- Johnson, Kim
- Johnson, Thomas
- Jones, Eugene
- Jones, Ina
- Jones, William
- Joseph, Matt
- Joseph, Michael
- Josephs, Jean
- K
- Kahn, Rachel
- Karlinsky, Simon
- Kelly, June
- Kelvin, Norman
- Kennedy, Bill
- Kennedy, John
- Kenney, Susie
- Kenworthy, Rosalind
- Kessler, Milton
- Keyes, Clara
- Kim, Daniel
- Kimble, Cary
- Kirchner, Julie
- Klempner, Mark
- Klieger, Celia
- Knickerbocker, Conrad
- Koller, Alice
- Kornacher, Melodee
- Koven, Frederica
- Kreyling, Mike
- Kunert, Elsie
- Kurtz, Janet
- L
- Laitin, Donald
- Landesman, Peter
- Landretti, John
- Langbaum, Robert (University of Virginia)
- Langland, Joseph
- Larson, Francesca
- Lathbury, Roger
- Lawrence, Seymour
- Lawson, Frances
- Laybourn, Margaret
- Learhardt, Gay
- Leewe, Lois
- Leffler, Merrill (Dryad Press)
- Lenhart, Tripp
- Le Van Bang (Vietnamese Ambassador)
- Levertov, Denise
- Levi, Toni
- Levine, Miriam
- Levitt, Bruce
- Lexington Herald-Leader
- Lindheim, Ralph (University of Toronto)
- Lindsay, Creighton
- Lipman, Naomi
- Lipsius, Julie
- Little, Brown and Co.
- Livensparger, Clark
- Loizeaux, William
- Long, John
- Lordan, Beth
- Los Angeles Times Book Review
- Louis, Adrian
- Louisiana State University Press
- Lowell Press
- Luria, Yaacov
- Lurie, Alison
- Lust, Geraldine
- Lyke, Mrs. Robert (neice)
- Lynch, Mary Ann
- Lyon, Robert
- M
- MacGillivray, Sally
- MacKenzie, Rachel
- MacLeod, Beatrice
- Malin, Irving
- Marcus, Phil
- Marks, Jeff
- Margolis, David
- Martin, Bill
- Martin, Mike
- Masters, Hillary
- Mathewson, Rufus
- McAfee, Carol
- McAllister, Joyce
- McCall, Dan
- McClare, Ken
- McConkey, Mr. and Mrs. C.D. (mom and dad)
- McConkey, O.M.
- McConkey, Thomas
- McConochie, Jean
- McCormick, James
- McCoy, Maureen
- McDowell, Fred
- McGinniss, Joe (Bennington College)
- McGuiness, Dan (Loyola College, MD)
- McKay, James
- McKenzie, Neil
- McMahon, Tom
- McPherson, Jessamyn
- McWilliams, Mary
- Meehan, Karen
- Mena, Dan
- Menashe, Samuel
- Meredith, Rachel
- Mermin, Dorothy
- Merwin, Tom
- Metzner, Jim
- Middlebrook, Diane (Stanford)
- Miles, Faye
- Millay Colony for the Arts
- Miller, Don
- Miller, Nolan (Antioch Review)
- Miller, Patty
- Miller, Tommye
- Miller, William
- Minkett, Bob
- Mitleavy, Phil (George Washington University)
- Moi, Daniel Arap (President of Kenya)
- Moilingi, Marjorie
- Monosovich, Sonya
- Moore, Janet
- Moore, Peter
- Moorehead State University (KY)
- Morgan, Robert
- Morris, F.
- Morse, Linda
- Mosher, Howard
- Moskovitz, Candida
- Moss, Howard
- Moynihan, Daniel
- Muehl, Louis
- Muller, Steve (Johns Hopkins University)
- Murrell, Duncan
- N
- Najarian, Varant
- National Council on the Arts/NEA
- Neisser, Arden
- Nelms, Willie
- Neshiem, Mal (CU Provost)
- Neuffer, Buffy
- New York Times Book Review
- New York University Press
- New Yorker
- Nicholson, Geneva
- Nightingale, Eric
- Nill, Christian
- Northup, Bob
- Northeast Indian Quarterly
- Nottingham, Euphemia
- Novak, Marc
- Norton and Co.
- O
- Ojarovsky, Ted
- Olsen, Scott (American Literary Review)
- Olson, Don (Olson, Winter and Fox Law Offices)
- Oxford University Press
- P
- Padvaiskas, Robin
- Pantheon Books
- Paullin, Ellen
- Payne, Katy
- Peachtree
- Peckar, Paul
- Pellegrino, Edmund (Georgetown University)
- Peppard, Kathleen
- Perazzini, Randy
- Percy, Walker
- Perkins, Kathy
- Perrin, Noel
- Persea Books
- Peters, Lori
- Peterson, Richard
- Pieper, Kirsten
- Pike, Burt
- Pioth, Mike
- Pixley, Sue
- Plagemann, Bentz
- Plane, Robert
- Platt, Richard
- Plattner, Elissa
- Platzner, Martin
- Ponikvar, Adolph
- Ponsoldt, Jim
- Pratt, Sam
- Press, Leonard
- Prewitt, Elizabeth
- Price, David (Middlebury College)
- Pritchard, Bill (Amherst College)
- Pullman, Jim
- Q
- R
- Radzinowicz, Mary Ann
- Rae, Catherine
- Ravenel, Shannon
- Ray, David
- Rebot, Richard (U of I at Chicago)
- Recommendations
- Reeves, Don
- Reid, Eileen
- Reid, John
- Reis, Curtis
- Renino, Chris
- Revoyr, Nina
- Rhett, Kathryn
- Richardson, J. David (University of Louisville)
- Richardson, Robert
- Richey, Nancy
- Richtarik, Marilyn (University of British Columbia)
- Riddell, Mary Ellen
- Riley, Mary
- Roberts, Mildred
- Robinson, Michael
- Robinson, Roxana
- Robinson, Sally
- Robison, Howard
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Rohrer, Trish
- Rose, Steve
- Rosen, Ira
- Rosecrance, Barbara
- Rotenberg, Gita
- Royal, Nancy
- Rudman, Mark
- Ruhloff, Janis
- Russell, Robert (Franklin and Marshall College)
- S
- Sagan, Carl
- St. Martin's Press
- Sale, Faith (Putnam)
- Salter, Al
- Saltonstall, David
- Samburg, Lorrie
- Samway, Patrick
- Sanders, John
- Sanders, Peter
- Sandor, Marjorie (Oregon State University)
- Sarewitz, Dan
- Sarton, May
- Saulnier, Beth
- Sawyer, Paul
- Scalf, Henry
- Schacterle, Lance (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
- Scherma, George
- Schermerhorn, R.A.
- Schiff, Stacy
- Schmookler, Andrew
- Schneide, Debra (Farquharson)
- Schoen-Rene, Ernst
- Schoninger, Sam
- Schreitmueller, Jack
- Schwalbe, Johanna
- Schwarzchild, Ed
- Scoones, Jacqueline
- Scott, Joanna
- Segnitz, Richard
- Sengupta, Sagaree
- Sewanee Review
- Shahane, V.A.
- Shannon, William
- Sharp, Megan
- Sharp, Ronald (Kenyon Review)
- Shenandoah
- Sherman, Larry
- Sherman, Susan
- Shilling, Maurice
- Shotwell, Louisa
- Siegel, Stephanie
- Silman, Roberta
- Silman, Ruth
- Silverman, Al
- Singer, Isaac
- Slater, Peter
- Smart, Bill (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts)
- Smith, Marya
- Smith, Tom
- Smith, Wendy
- Snyder, Larry
- Snyder, Laurie
- Solinger, Betty Ann
- Sorensen, Andrew (Cambridge)
- Souder, Frank
- Spear, Arthur
- Spencer, James
- Steigerwald, Kathryn
- Steinde-Rost, F.K.
- Steingel, Julia
- Stephenson, Roy
- Still, James
- Stoessl, Elizabeth
- Stone, Wilfred
- Storandt, Peter
- Summers, David
- Summers, Hollis
- Sward, Robert
- T
- Tabbi, Joe
- Taylor, Peter
- Tekeyan, Charles
- Telc, Haifang
- Ternes, Alan
- Thomas, Aaron
- Thurston, Jarvis
- Tillett, Lucy
- Tim, Henry (Cotton Candy and Turnip Greens)
- Timan, Nicole
- Timan, Richard
- Tongret, Alan
- Tremper, Ellen
- Trenner, Richard
- Trilling, Lionel
- Trythall, Gil
- Twieg, Betty Jean
- U
- Ulrich, Clare
- Univeristy of Arizona
- University of Kentucky Faculty Scholars Program
- University Press of Kentucky
- Uris, Harold (?)
- V
- Vallas, Joanne (Random House; Alfred Knopf Inc)
- Vanderbilt University
- Ververidis, Eva
- Viking Penguin Inc
- Villacrusis, Michael
- Villegas, Anthony
- Viva, Soma
- W
- Waldman, Debby
- Waldman, John
- Walker, Laura
- Waller, Margie
- Ware, John
- Wechsler, Warren
- Weekes, Zhira
- Weeren, Beth
- Weil, Herbert
- Weinberg, Susan
- Welty, Eudora
- West, Paul
- Western Reserve Historical Society
- White, Crystal
- White, Kirby
- Wiesenfeld, John
- William Heineman Ltd
- Williams, Robert (Eastern Michigan Unversity)
- Wilson, Bob (USA Today)
- Winestine, Belle
- Wurts, Geraldine
- X
- Y
- Yakima
- Yale Review
- Yanbey, Grace
- Yoken, Mel
- Z
- Zaitsev, Vladimir
- Zierler, Margery
- Zilversmith, Don
- Zobell, Gertrude
- Zrebiec, Louis
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by S. Kayfetz, P. McCray
- Date
- April 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu