The Author Files contain files relating to authors, poets, artists, translators, editors, intellectuals, journalists, literary agents, and other figures from the world of post-WWII belles lettres. Many, but not all, of the authors represented here have submitted work to, been published in, or had business with The Hudson Review. Most author files contain correspondence including incoming letters, notes, cards, and telegrams, and often carbon copies of outgoing letters from the editors, consulting editors, and other representatives of The Hudson Review. These files may also include manuscripts, offprints, artwork, internal forms and memoranda, clippings, permission requests, documents pertaining to copyright assignment, reader's reports, galley and corrected proof pages, and other materials relevant to each file subject's connection with The Hudson Review and/or its editors. Some of the most important writers, thinkers, and critics of the twentieth century are represented in these files, including Saul Bellow, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Kenneth Burke, E. M. Cioran, T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis, Thomas Mann, Marshall McLuhan, and Saint-John Perse. Poets are particularly well represented with files available (all containing correspondence) for W. H. Auden, Alan Ginsberg, W. S. Graham, Jorge Guillen, Robert Lowell, Hugh MacDiarmid. Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Some of the most extensive files in this series are those concerning post-WWII American poets such as A. R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth (including several hundred letters), Dana Gioia, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, and Louis Simpson.

These files are arranged alphabetically and concern subjects relevant to The Hudson Review, but which do not fit easily into other series. Included are files related to the incorporation of the magazine in 1946, to industry associations and organizations such as the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and the Association of Literary Magazines of America, and to secondary projects undertaken by The Hudson Review such as The Hudson Review Anthology and The Hudson Review Fellowship. Also included are research files with headings such as "Hannah Arendt" and "Exxon Corporation" that generally contain clippings, notes and other general informational materials; topical files such as "Community Outreach," and "Anniversaries"; files about institution-specific events such as "Choice/ Robert Bly Controversy," and "United States Custom's seizure of Soft Machine"; files covering events in which The Hudson Review participated such as "The West Chester Conference" and "Sewanee Writers Conference"; and files pertaining to works published in The Hudson Review that were subsequently published in different forms or utilized for film or theatrical projects such as "Indians in Overalls," and "Stalingrad Letters." These files contain a variety of material including correspondence, clippings, informational brochures, offprints, photocopies of a range of materials (especially in the files related to the research done on The Hudson Review by Peter Brazeau), inter-office memos, and other documents.

These files cover the administrative, financial, and operational aspects of The Hudson Review, and include materials related to production, advertising, circulation, taxes, accounting, banking, office operations, fund raising, subscriptions, promotion and personnel. Present in these files are Treasurer's Reports covering the years 1947-2001. Arranged only to the box level, this series includes the following subseries: General Business Files, Employees and Interns, Permissions, Financial Statements, Subscription Ledgers, Circulation, Advertising, Printers (made up mostly of files related to William Byrd Printing), and Bills and Banking which includes bank statements, checkbook stubs, and petty cash receipts all dating from before 1980.

While there is some unavoidable overlap between some of the material included here and Frederick Morgan's editorship of The Hudson Review, this series contains material principally related to Morgan's work as a poet and translator and to his personal history.

Material related to Frederick Morgan's family. Though consisting mostly of correspondence, these papers also include a range of other material associated with individual family members. For example, Morgan's son Seth published a novel, Homeboy, and his files include clippings of reviews for the book. The most extensive files in this series [relate to] Morgan's first wife, Constance, and to Morgan's mother, Marion Morgan. The correspondence between Morgan and his first wife runs to several hundred letters, and the two were particularly active correspondents during the period of Morgan's military service when they often wrote each other multiple letters in a single day. The files for Marion Morgan span a particularly long period, from 1930 to 1988, and contain extensive correspondence between her and her son in which they often discuss family news and events.

Consists of photographs of Frederick Morgan, family photographs, photographs of authors, friends, poetry readings, and events, as well as others.

Consists of miscellaneous oversize items, a ballot box, and several original printing plates.

Consists of printed material related to Hudson Review Single Issues, Frederick Morgan Publications, and Paula Deitz Publications.

Consists of research material, notes, outlines, drafts, galleys, and proofs. Yellow legal notepads contain notes, early draft material, and inserts for later typed and printed versions. Notepads are identified by their first lines, though a single notepad may contain a variety of material, including material relating to other works, correspondence drafts, and other unrelated notes. Corrected typescript and printout drafts often show significant revisions. Material from various stages of the publication process is present, including setting copies with copy-editor's and typesetter's marks, galleys, page proofs, F (folded-and-gathered pages, in signatures but not yet bound), blueline proofs ("confirmation blues"), advance copies (bound uncorrected proofs, pre-publication, often used for book reviewers) and production/design material with page and dust-jacket samples. Page numbers are noted for paginated material.

Printed materials including various editions and translations of Toni Morrison's published books, books, manuscripts, and academic papers by other authors, and published scores and libretti.