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Overview of the Collection

Biography

Scope and Content

Organization

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

Nelson Bibliography

Detailed Description

Series I: Poetry Correspondence and Manuscripts, undated, 1964-1992

Series II: Other Correspondence and Photographs, 1986-2001

Marilyn Nelson Papers

Biography

Marilyn Nelson was born 26 April 1946 to Johnnie E. Nelson and Melvin Nelson, Sr. She is a graduate of Hiram Johnson High School and the University of California at Davis, and has a Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of 6 books of poetry, 2 children's collections and a few chapter books. Her book Carver: A life in Poems has been awarded the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for excellence in children's literature. The Homeplace was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize and won the 1998 Poet's Prize. Nelson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and recently named Connecticut's Poet Laureate by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Marilyn Nelson has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 1978.

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Scope and Content

The collection contains correspondence from Nelson's MFA students at Vermont College and from other poets, personal notebooks, photographs, manuscripts of poetry and translations and term papers written while Nelson was a student.

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Organization

Series I: Poetry Correspondence and Manuscripts (undated, 1964- 1992) contains term papers while Nelson was a student, manuscripts of poetry, poems written with childern, correspondence from theologian Mary Pellauer; poets Dave Smith and others, and translation of Thornvig Bjorvig poems.

Series II: Other Correspondence and Photographs (1986-1992) from MFA students at Vermont College and magazines as well as photographs.

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Arrangement

The collection has been reordered and divided into two series. Photographs were removed from original folders and placed in a separate folder created for photographs. Publications were also removed for cataloging.

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

There are no access restrictions to materials identified in this finding aid.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

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Related Material

Archives and Special Collections have a substantial collection of literary manuscripts and faculty papers. For detailed information on these collections please contact the curator or ask at the reference desk.

Motley, Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 1964. Dodd Periodicals

Moving Out: Feminist Literary & Arts Journal, Volume 5, Number 1, 1975. Dodd Periodicals

Christianity and Crisis, Volume 44, No 13, August 13, 1984. Dodd Periodicals

Touchstone: Viterbo College, Vol. 25, 26, Spring 1974, 1975. Dodd Periodicals

The Pennsylvania Gazette, Vol. 69. No. 5, March, 1971. Dodd Periodicals

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Index Terms

This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, Folder #], Marilyn Nelson Papers. Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Professor Marilyn Nelson donated her collection in 1992.

Processing Information

Materials restricted by the donor have not been processed.

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Nelson Bibliography

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Bibliography

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 120: American Poets since World War II, Third Series, Gale, 1992.Booklist, September 1, 1994.Hudson Review, Summer, 1991.Kenyon Review, Spring, 1991.Multicultural Review, March, 1995.Parnassus, Volume 17, number 1, 1992.Publishers Weekly, , November 16, 1990; August 29, 1994School Library Journal, June, 1991.Shenandoah, Winter, 1992.

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