Summary
Overview
Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980
Louis Kronenberger Papers
Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
One Washington Road
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA
Abstract
Louis Kronenberger was an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer. Contains correspondence with notable literary figures as well as editorial requests and drafts of Kronenberger's writings.
Description
Description
This collection contains personal correspondence with literary figures as well as editorial correspondence and drafts of Kronenberger's writings. The collection is especially notable for Kronenberger's extensive correspondence with important literary figures, including, among others, W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Bernard Malamud, Marianne Moore, V. S. Pritchett, Stephen Spender, Eudora Welty, and Edmund Wilson. Also included are business letters and editorial correspondence sent to Kronenberger from 1954 to 1977. In addition, the collection contains drafts of Kronenberger's own writings from 1958 to 1974, including Company Manners, Animal, Vegetable Mineral, Oscar Wilde and The Extraordinary Mr. Wilkes.
Collection Creator
Biography
Louis Kronenberger was an American critic, novelist, and biographer. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati in 1924, he worked for the New York Times until, in 1926, he obtained an editorial job with Boni and Liveright. He subsequently worked as an editor for Alfred Knopf from 1933-1938 before serving as the drama critic for Time magazine from 1938-1961 and PM from1940–48. In addition, Kronenberger taught drama at several universities, including Columbia, Harvard, and Brandeis, where, in 1951, he founded the Department of Theater Arts. Kronenberger is the author of several creative works, including The Grand Manner (1929), Grand Right and Left (1952), and A Month of Sundays (1961). His play The Heavenly Twins was produced on Broadway in 1955. In addition, he wrote biographies of Sarah Churchill, Oscar Wilde, and John Wilkes, edited the Best Plays series from 1952-1961, and published widely in the fields of literary and historical criticism.
Collection History
Acquisition
Formerly part of the James S. Copley Library, this collection was purchased at auction at Sotheby’s, New York,
Dates: 2011 June 17.
(AM2011-111).
Archival Appraisal Information
No materials were separated during 2011 processing.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Regine Heberlein in 2011. Finding aid written by Regine Heberlein in 2011.
Access and Use
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Preferred Citation
Louis Kronenberger Papers; 1939-1980, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
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