Wesleyan University Wesleyan Writers Conference records

Collection

Identifier: 2002-026a

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Contents include correspondence with teachers and lecturers; invitations; brochures; student scholarship applications, planning, and writing samples; budgeting; advertising; and scheduling documentation. The bulk of the present series covers the years 1960-1977. By the early 1980s, Jack Paton became Director and Krochalis served as Chair of the Advisory Board. Records after 1980 in this series reflect that shift in her administrative duties.

Box 7 contains cassette tapes of lectures, readings, and conference sessions including the following individuals: William Manchester; Padraic Colum; J. Sternberg; Steve Foreman; Lael Wertenbaker; Robertson Davies; Brendan Galvin; George Garrett; William Packard; Norma Farber.

Dates

Creation: 1956-1994

Creator

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

University records - Copyright held by Wesleyan University; all other copyright is retained by the creator - In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Biographical / Historical

The annual summer conference was founded in 1956 by Krochalis, an English teacher at Suffield Academy, the critic Louis Untermeyer, who was a colleague at Suffield Academy, and Irish poet and playwright Padraic Colum, then living in New York. The conference affiliated with Wesleyan in 1976 to become the Suffield-Wesleyan Writer’s Conference in 1976, and is presently known as the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference.

Extent

7.50 Linear Feet (6 paige boxes, 1 hollinger box, and 1 flat hollinger box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Records created by Jeanne Brown Krochalis: co-founder; Director of Manuscripts and Scholarships (1956-69); and Director (1969-ca. 1980) of the Suffield Reader-Writer Conference.