Items

• 1968 Literary Awards Banquet Poster

  1968 Literary Awards Banquet poster announcing Stanley Elkin as the speaker.
• Robert Ackerman Literary Foundation 1969 Fellowship

  Handwritten and collaged document which resembles a certificate and reads "Robert Ackerman Literary Foundation 1969 Fellowship is Hear-by Awarded to Stanley Elkin for Literary Excellence Exhibited in A Bad Man, Boswell, and Criers and Kibitzers, 1969".
• Ritchie to Elkin

  5 items of correspondence from film director and producer Michael Ritchie to Stanley Elkin regarding "The Art of the War".
• Art of War - Typescript First Draft

  Typescript first draft of "The Art of War" with autograph corrections.
• Elkin's Novel Approach Earns Him High Praise from the Nation's Literati

  Article in the Clayton Times with several pictures of Stanley Elkin.
• Size and Quality of WU Writers' Colony May Rank First Among Nation's Campuses

  Reprint of "Size and Quality of WU Writers' Colony May Rank First Among Nation's Campuses" from the WU Record with photos of WashU professors, including Stanley Elkin.
• Clippings - 1984

  Three clippings collected by the Elkin's in 1984. The articles are "Elkin, Lord Star in Reading", "Acclaimed Author to Visit City" in The Anchorage Times, and "Writing Coach Bemoans Boredom" in the Homer News.
• "Stanley Elkin's Magic Kingdom" Review

  Book review by Malcolm Ones, St. Peterburg Times Book Editor.
• Look Here

  Tearsheet featuring an image of Joan Elkin's painting "Jarvis Thurston and His Circle".
• L'etrange Enfer de Stanley Elkin

  Article title translates to "The Strange Hell of Stanley Elkin."
• Plugged-In Prose

  TIME "Books" article with a photo of Stanley Elkin working on a Lexitron.
• Bread Loaf: Life Among Literati
• Full-Tilt Elkin

  "Everyday" article featuring Stanley Elkin in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
• The Contemporary Literature Speech in France

  Typescript draft of "The Contemporary Literature Speech in France" and cover of publication of Revue Francaise D'Etudes Americaines.
• How Bill Danforth Saved Me From My Darker Nature [essay]

  Typescript [printout] and includes note "The last thing Stanley finished."
• Helen Vendler Introduction [speech]

  Typescript draft of speech give by Stanley Elkin introducing Helen Vendler.
• Invitations and Brochures - 1988

  Posters promoting the President's Lecture Series and Brown University's Reading and Lecture Series.
• Spring Literary Festival Ohio University

  Mailer about the Spring Literary Festival Ohio University.
• Invitations and Brochures - 1983

  Broadside of "Public Reading by Stanley Elkin" inscribed "For Joan, with love, Stanley Elkin", Novelist in Residence at LFC Poster, and Spectrum Summer Writers Conference mailer.
• Invitations and Brochures - 1973

  Two posters promoting events featuring Stanley Elkin - his reading at Parkes 122 at Northwestern University and WashU's Spring Symposium 1973.