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| Creator: | Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972. |
| Title: | Paul Goodman Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1961-1965 |
| Quantity: | 1.0 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the American author, poet. Includes correspondence; articles, book manuscripts, a galley proof, poems; and published material, including articles and clippings (1963-1964). |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Author, poet, social critic and educator Paul Goodman was born in New York City on September 9, 1911. After graduating from City College in New York, he received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Chicago. Goodman has taught at the University of Chicago, New York University, Black Mountain College, and Sarah Lawrence, and has lectured widely at various universities throughout the country. He is associated with the New York and Cleveland institutes for Gestalt Therapy and the University Seminar on the Problems of Interpretation at Columbia. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
Goodman has written for Commentary, Politics, Kenyon Review, Resistance, Liberation, Partisan Review, Dissent, The Quarterly Review of Literature, The New Republic, Moviegoer, and the Village Voice. His fiction includes The Facts of Life, The Break-Up of Our Camp, Parent's Day, The Empire City, Making Do, and a volume of verse, The Lordly Hudson. He has also written two books of criticism, Kafka's Prayer and The Structure of Literature. In the area of social studies, in addition to co-authoring Communitas and Gestalt Therapy, he has written Art and Social Nature, Growing Up Absurd (the book for which he is best known), Utopian Essays and Practical Purposes, Drawing the Line, Community of Scholars, and Compulsory Mis-Education.
Mr. Goodman is married and has three children.
The Paul Goodman Papers consist of correspondence (incoming and outgoing), subject files, manuscripts and published material. Correspondence contains incoming, consisting of a selection of crank letters to Mr. Goodman and a letter from John Lindsay, and outoing, consisting of a series of letters from Mr. Goodman. Subject files contains a desk calendar, an undated test on Growing Up Absurd, a meeting notice, and minutes of a school board meeting. Manuscripts contains two manuscripts of books by Goodman and a galley proof, also lectures, magazine articles, notes and poetry. Published material contains magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and a pamphlet.
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Paul Goodman Papers
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Created by: -
Date: Feb 1967
Revision history: 10 May 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC)
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Incoming | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | A-C, D-K, L-R, S, T-Z | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Crank letters 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lindsay, John 1963 | ||||||||||
| Outgoing | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1963-1964, undated | ||||||||||
| Subject file | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Calendar 1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Test on Growing Up Absurd undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Meeting notice undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Minutes of school board meetings 1962 | ||||||||||
| Manuscripts | |||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Lordly Hudson 1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | People or Personnel 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | People or Personnal, galley proofs 1965 | ||||||||||
| Lectures | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | undated | ||||||||||
| Magazine articles | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1961-1964, undated | ||||||||||
| Poetry | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1964, undated | ||||||||||
| Published material | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Magazine articles 1961-1964, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Newspaper clippings 1963-1964 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pamphlet undated | ||||||||||
