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Rose Strunsky Lorwin Papers

Call Number

MSS.117

Date

circa 1910 - 1911, inclusive

Creator

Strunsky, Rose (Role: Addressee)

Extent

0.2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Biographical / Historical

Rose Strunsky was born in Russia in 1884. Her family emigrated to the United States, first to New York City and then to San Francisco, where she attended Stanford University. Along with her older sister, Anna Strunsky, she was active in socialist politics and San Francisco's literary scene. The sisters travelled in Russia in 1905, and lived in Greenwich Village in New York in the 1910s. Rose Strunsky married Louis Lorwin in 1920. Throughout her life she worked as a translator; her translations include The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (Knopf, 1917) and Leon Trotsky's Literature and Revolution (International Publishers, 1925). Rose Strunsky Lorwin died in New York in 1963.

Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre Minnesota in 1885. After graduating from Yale University in 1908, Lewis worked as a freelance writer, reporter and editor in various towns before working as an editor in New York. His first commercially successful novel, Main Street, was published in 1920. In 1926, Lewis was awarded a Pulizter Prize, which he refused. He accepted a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. Lewis's novels include Babbit (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). Lewis died in 1951 in Rome.

Arrangement

The folders are arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Scope and Contents

The Rose Strunsky Lorwin Papers contain a small amount of typescripts(mostly poems) written by Sinclair Lewis for Rose Strunsky. Ten of the typescripts have autograph revisions by Lewis; another eleven have revisions and suggestions that are presumed to have been made by Rose Strunsky. These poems were written around 1910 or 1911.

Subjects

People

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 (Role: Author); Strunsky, Rose (Role: Addressee)

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); The Rose Strunsky Lorwin Papers; MSS 117; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.

Provenance

The Rose Strunsky Lorwin Papers were donated to the Fales Library by Strunsky Lorwin's grandaughter, Elizabeth Jane Lorwin, in 2003.

Collection processed by

Lisa Darms, 2009.

About this Guide

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Language: Finding aid written in English

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012