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Titre
Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann papers
Date(s)
- 1916-1957 (Production)
Importance matérielle
7 Boxes
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Joseph Auslander was born on October 11, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Harvard College, He was a poet, anthologist, translator of poems, editor, and novelist. Auslander was appointed as the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1937 to 1941. Auslander was noted for his war poems, and his best-known work is "The Unconquerables" (1943), a collection of poems addressed to the German-occupied countries of Europe.
Audrey Wurdemann was born January 1, 1911 in Seattle, Washington. Wurdemann was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Price for Poetry at the age of 24, for her collection Bright Ambush. She married Joseph Auslander in 1932. Wurdemann and Auslander collaborated on the novels My Uncle Jan and The Islanders.
They spent their last years living in Coral Gables, Florida. Wurdemann died on May 20, 1960 and Auslander died on June 22, 1965.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann Collection consists predominantly of correspondence, programs, and scripts relating to their involvement with the CBS radio program Housewives' Protective League. The Housewives' Protectice League, airing from 1948 to 1962, was a daily CBS radio feature which explored a variety of issues from childrearing and health to fidelity and marriage troubles. The letters are either from publishers confirming the Auslander's permission to review or discuss their books on air, or from CBS executives discussing their scripts. Included also are several scripts not by Auslander or Wurdemann, and an untitled typescript. Finally, the collection contains a leasing agreement from the Auslanders for a house in New York City. several periodicals, 15 research notebooks, and 28 photographs (with French inscriptions) depicting trench warfare in Belgium during World War I.
Mode de classement
Collection is organized into three series: I. Correspondence, II. Radio Programs and Scripts, and III. General Files.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
This collection is open for research.
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Conditions de reproduction
Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann Papers Finding Aid © 2009 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Langue des documents
- anglais
- français
Écriture des documents
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Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
See also the following book held in Special Collections:
Auslander, Joseph and Audrey Wurdemann. The Islanders. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1951.
Spec Coll Florida PS3501 .U67 18 1951
Information about related materials is available at http://ibisweb.miami.edu/record=b1766818~S11
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Mots-clés
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- CBS Radio Network (Sujet)
- Housewives' Protective League (Sujet)
- Auslander, Joseph, 1897-1965 (Sujet)
- Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (Sujet)
- Wurdemann, Audrey, 1911-1960 (Sujet)