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Collections include the papers of novelists, poets, and playwrights; interviews, publications, and ephemera.
Although literary collections have not been the curatorial focus of the Hoover Institution, the papers of novelists, poets, and playwrights can be found in the archives. Highlights include letters by Czech novelist Josef Škvorecký, speeches by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writings by Pulitzer Prize–winner Allen Drury, science fiction by Cordwainer Smith, and, especially, the papers of Boris Pasternak and his family. The Firing Line Broadcast Collection also features interviews with authors such as Jack Keruoac, Eudora Welty, Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, and Bret Easton Ellis.
Papers of Leonid Pasternak; his son, Boris Pasternak; and others
Czech-Canadian novelist
Russian-American literary historian
Soviet literary critic and dissident
US novelist; author, Advise and Consent
US author
Russian novelist
Russian-Latvian poet
Materials about Joseph Brodsky, Isaak Babel', and Boris Pasternak
Russian poet
Polish-American novelist
Science fiction writer "Cordwainer Smith"
Russian novelist
Research materials for his novel, The Preacher and the Slave
Television series hosted by William F. Buckley, 1966–99
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On the Firing Line: Where have you gone William F. Buckley Jr.?
by Jean McElwee Cannon
The Hoover Institution today announced publication of the book Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence 1921–1960, translated and annotated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and edited by Maya Slater, with a foreword by Lazar Fleishman.
Members of the extended Pasternak family were on hand Monday, May 3, for a book launch hosted by the Hoover Institution to celebrate the release of Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence, 1921–1960, translated and annotated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, edited by Maya Slater, and with a foreword written by Lazar Fleishman (Hoover Institution Press, 2010).
Hundreds of poems and letters have been added to the Pasternak family papers digital archive in the Hoover Archives reading room, including more than two hundred pages of Boris Pasternak’s poems. . . .
The Hoover Institution is cosponsoring an international symposium titled “The Life of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago: Culture and the Cold War” with Stanford University’s School of Humanities and Sciences.
The first segment of the Pasternak Family Papers digital archive is available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
Held on Stanford campus October 19-20, 2007, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Doctor Zhivago, the symposium was sponsored by Stanford University and the Hoover Institution.
Writing and violence, seduction and revolution, humanity and raw power are at the core of the spare and brilliant legacy of Isaac Babel, a Russian Jewish master of the short story, who began his career with the blessing of Maxim Gorky in 1916, rose to international renown with the publication of his Red Cavalry in 1926, and perished after Stalin waved his executioner’s wand in 1940.
