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- Collection Description & Creator Information
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Love, Kennett
- Title:
- Kennett Love Papers
- Repository:
- Public Policy Papers
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x920fw85t
- Dates:
- 1953-1990
- Size:
- 15 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-15
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Kennett Love Papers contain correspondence, subject files, writings, tape recordings and other material relating to the career of Love as a writer and journalist. Most of the material deals with Love's book, Suez: The Twice Fought War.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of correspondence, subject files, writings, tape recordings, and other material relating to the career of Love (Princeton Class of 1946) as a writer and journalist. Most of the material deals with his book Suez -- The Twice-Fought War: A History (1969).
- Collection Creator Biography:
Love, Kennett
Kennett Love was born on August 17, 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. He served from 1943- 1946 as a United States Navy pilot during World War II. Like many GIs, Love returned to school after the war and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College in 1948. He began his career as a writer and a journalist in 1948 by working as a reporter for the Hudson Dispatch, in Union City, New Jersey. Love served as foreign correspondent for the New York Times, between 1948 and 1962. His assignments included coverage of activities in the Middle East, East Africa, West Africa and Europe. Love was an eight-time winner of the Publisher's Writing Prize. He served in Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia and training centers in the United States as a PlannerEvaluator for the Peace Corps between 1963 and 1964. Love was an associate professor at Princeton University's School of Oriental Studies from 1964 to 1968. Between 1971-1973 he was a professor of journalism at the American University in Cairo, and served as a Cairo correspondent for ABC News. In 1974 Love began to pursue a career as a free lance writer, editor and photographer. For the past two years he has engaged in research and interviews for a history of the 1953 coup in Iran. Love's major published work is the Suez: The Twice Fought War. He has produced many articles, reviews, broadcasts and taken photographs which have appeared nationally and internationally.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift from Kennet Love on March 1, 1992 . Blair Seagram donated a subsequent addition (accession number: ML.2011.025 ) in June 2011.
- Appraisal
No information about appraisal is available for the initial collection. For the June 2011 accession, a file of personal correspondence was returned to the donor and books were sent to Firestone library.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Monica Ruscil in 1993. Finding aid written by Monica Ruscil in 1993. The finding aid was updated in June 2011 by Maureen Callahan in order to incorporate materials from the June 2011 accession.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access to audiovisual material in this collection follows the Mudd Manuscript Library policy for preservation and access to audiovisual materials.
- Credit this material:
Kennett Love Papers; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x920fw85t
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-15