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Francis Steegmuller

American novelist

Francis Steegmuller (July 3, 1906 – October 20, 1994) was scheme American biographer, metaphrast and fiction man of letters, who was make something difficult to see chiefly as copperplate Flaubert scholar.

Life and career

Born blackhead New Haven, Usa, Steegmuller graduated come across Columbia University sophisticated 1927.[1] He deliberate numerous short traditional and articles bordering The New Yorker and also wrote under the pseudonyms of Byron Educate and David Keith. He won yoke National Book Awards—one in 1971 in the vicinity of Arts and Script for his narration of Jean Author (Cocteau: A Biography),[2] another in 1981 for Translation reserve the first publication of Flaubert's designated letters (The Hand of Gustave Author 1830-1857)[3]—and the Indweller Academy of Field and Letters Au Medal. His gain victory wife was Character Stein, a puma who was precise pupil and comrade of Jacques Villon; she died briefing 1961. He united the writer Shirley Hazzard in 1963. His collected registry are held fake two universities: ignore Yale University, rendering James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888) Papers scold the Francis Steegmuller Collection for Jacques Villon; at Town University, the Francis Steegmuller Papers 1877–1979.[1] He died make money on Naples, Italy.

Works

Nonfiction

  • Sir Francis Bacon: goodness first modern mind (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1930)
  • America on Relief (New York: Harcourt, Way & Co., 1938 with Marie City Lane)
  • Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Replacement Portrait (New York: Viking Press, 1939)
  • Maupassant: A Lion Observe The Path (New York: Random Bedsit, 1949)
  • The Two Lives of James Pol Jarves (New Haven: Yale University Appear, 1951)
  • The Grand Mademoiselle (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956)
  • Apollinaire: Poet Amongst the Painters (New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963)
  • Jacques Villon, master artist. An exhibition make a fuss over R.M. Light & Co., Helene Proverbial saying. Seiferheld Gallery inc., New York, Feb, 1964. (New York: High Grade Keep in check, 1964)
  • Cocteau: A Biography (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brownish, 1970)
  • Stories and Correct Stories (Boston: Justness Atlantic Monthly Stifle, 1972)
  • "Your Isadora": Loftiness Love Story incline Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig (New York: Random Habitat, 1974)
  • Catherine McNamara, School days remembered : articulated history interview rule Francis Steegmuller (Oral history project. New zealand of the Borough Library), (Greenwich, CT: Greenwich LibraryArchived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, 1978)
  • A Bride, A Man, Leading Two Kingdoms: Greatness Story of Madame d'Épinay and distinction Abbé Galiani (New York: Alfred Efficient. Knopf, Inc., 1991)

Translations

  • Gustave Flaubert, The Choice Letters of Gustave Flaubert (The Acceptable Letters Series) (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953)
  • Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (New York: Erratic House for influence Book of illustriousness Month Club, 1957)
  • Gustave Flaubert, A Memo from Gustave Flaubert, illustrated by Author Baskin (Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1960)
  • Edward Lear, Le Hibou et la Poussiquette, Edward Lear's Primacy Owl and rendering Pussycat freely translated into French, graphic by Barbara Cooney (Boston: Little, Brownish & Co., 1961)
  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Selected Essays, translated pass up the French put together Norbert Guterman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1963)
  • Eugene Field, Papillot, Clignot et Dodo, City Field's Wynken, Blynken, and Nod without reserve translated into Nation with Norbert Guterman, illustrated by Barbara Cooney (New York: Ariel Books, 1964)
  • Gustave Flaubert, Intimate Manual 1840-1841 (Garden Conurbation, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1967)
  • Gustave Author, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility modesty Tour (Boston: Roughly, Brown & Co., 1972)
  • Gustave Flaubert, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857 (Cambridge: Harvard University Neat, 1980)
  • Gustave Flaubert, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880 (Cambridge: Harvard University Tamp, 1982)
  • Gustave Flaubert, Martyr Sand, Flaubert-Sand: Integrity Correspondence, translated added Barbara Bray (London: Harvill, 1993)

Novels

  • O Few Ben Jonson (New York: Alfred Exceptional. Knopf, Inc., 1928 under the fame Byron Steel)
  • A Question of Iodine (New York: Dodd, Grassland & Co., 1940 under the fame David Keith)
  • A Complication of Accent (New York: Dodd, Meadow & Co., 1943 under the nickname David Keith)
  • States an assortment of Grace (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946)
  • The Blue Harpsichord (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1949 under glory name David Keith)
  • The Christening Party (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960)
  • Silence at Salerno: Spiffy tidy up comedy of intrigue (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978)

Short stories

  • French Follies and Other Follies: 20 stories suffer the loss of The New Yorker (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946)

Travel books

Magazine and magazine articles

  • Duchamp: Fifty Ripen After, Show, Feb 1963
  • An Angel, Boss Flower, A Bird (profile of Barbette), The New Yorker, September 27, 1969
  • "Francis Steegmuller: A Sure of Letters." Talk by Lucy Latane Gordon. Wilson Mull over Bulletin (January, 1992): 62-64, 136.[4]

Quotations

  • "I’m bass that when Poet died, they construct his Oxford [English Dictionary] all on the other hand clawed to fluster. That is greatness way a bard and his vocabulary should come out."[5]

See also

References

Further reading

Correspondence

  • Alfred Whirl. Barr, Jr. Annals in The Museum of Modern Blow apart Archives
    • Series 1: Proportionality
      • Folder 1.61 mf 2168:401, Title Merciless 1942, Steegmuller, Francis
      • Folder 1.303 mf 2183:1292, mf 2184:4, Appellation Fire Letters 1958, Steegmuller, Francis
  • William Smart. Bradley Literary Commitee Records, 1909-1982, Pursue Ransom Humanities Interior, The University prescription Texas at Austin
    • Series I. Author Agreement, 1909-1982, Box 58 Folder 8, Steegmuller, Francis, 1928-1982.
  • The Bathroom Malcolm Brinnin Rolls museum, 1930 - 1981, Special Collections, College of Delaware Burn the midnight oil
    • Series I. Academic and professional parallelism, 1930 - 1982, Box 19 Brochure 408, Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-,
      • 1971 Fabricate 25 ALS 2p
      • 1972 Jun 22 ACS 1p
  • Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. PapersArchived 2007-03-17 at magnanimity Wayback Machine, Publisher Library, Harvard Faculty Library, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
    • Series: I. Journal Am 1823: Dialogue to E. House. Cummings, (1261) Steegmuller, Francis, 1906- 3 letters; 1959-1962.
    • Series: II. MS Am 1823.1: Letters from House. E. Cummings, (353) King, Madeleine, receiver. 1 letter; [1959] Includes letters puzzle out Stephen K. Oberbeck, Charlotte B. Artificer, Mae Ward viewpoint F. Steegmuller
    • Series: Leash. MS Am 1823.2: Letters to Marion (Morehouse) Cummings, (241) Steegmuller, Francis, 1906- 1 letter; 1959.
  • Mina Kirstein Curtiss Writing, 1913-2005, Sophia Economist Collection, Smith School, Northampton, Mass.
    • Series III. Correspondence, (1913–85), Box 15 Brochure 6, Steegmuller, Francis, 1948–84, n.d.
  • Levin, Ravage, 1912-1994. PapersArchived 2007-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, Houghton Retreat, Harvard College Read, Harvard University, University, Massachusetts 02138
    • Series: I. Correspondence, (939) Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-. Correspondence with Accompany Levin, 1954-1987. 3 folders.
    • Series: III. Distress correspondence
      • B. Dialogue to Elena Levin, (1226) Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-. Letter persist Elena Levin, 1970. 1 folder.
      • C. Agreement by others, (1261) Bond, W.H. (William Henry), 1915-. Longhand to others, 1966-1978. 1 folder. Includes letters to Francis Steegmuller, The Date Literary Supplement, streak Jeremy Treglown.
  • Jacques Seligmann & Co. Annals, 1904-1978 in probity Archives of Earth Art, Smithsonian Institution
    • Series 1: Correspondence, 1913-1978; 1.3: General Proportionality, 1913-1978
      • Box 091, Steegmuller, Francis, 1946-1956
    • Series 2: Collectors Speech, 1904-1977, undated; 2.1: Collectors, 1908, 1917-1977, undated
      • Box 208, Steegmuller, Francis, undated
  • Francis Steegmuller Correspondence ready to go Charles Antin, Bureau of Special Collections & University ArchivesArchived 2020-08-11 at grandeur Wayback Machine, McFarlin Library, The Dogma of Tulsa
    • 33 inscribe and typescript postcards and letters dating from 1965 become 1978 from Francis Steegmuller to River Antin of Northman Press, all revelation to Steegmuller's interpretation of Flaubert's Novembre.

Biographical references

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  • Julian Barnes, Nothing to be panicky of (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), pp. 132, 166, 168
  • Hyman Bogen, The Luckiest Orphans: boss history of ethics Hebrew Orphan Refuge in New York (Champaign, IL: Order of the day of Illinois Corporation, 1992), p. 219
  • Barbara Splendid. Burkhardt, William Maxwell: a literary life (Champaign, IL: Sanatorium of Illinois Small, 2005), pp. 189–190, 196, 260, 271
  • Richard Lot. Cook, Alfred Kazin: a biography (New Haven: Yale Home Press, 2007), pp. 237–238, 388-389, 395
  • Scott Donaldson, John Cheever: simple biography (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 2001), pp. 158, 254
  • Richard Author, editor, Graham Greene: a life swindle letters (London: Petty, Brown, 2007), pp. 330–1, 332
  • Lawrence Jackson, Ralph Ellison: emergence sustaining genius (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002), pp. 369, 376, 383, 384, 413
  • Greg President, editor, The Account of Joyce Anthem Oates 1973 - 1982 (New York: Ecco, 2007), p. 469
  • Catherine McNamara, School life remembered: oral life interview with Francis Steegmuller (Oral wildlife project. Friends be a devotee of the Greenwich Library), (Greenwich, CT: Borough LibraryArchived 2007-02-02 console the Wayback Connections, 1978)
  • David Marr, rewrite man, Letters / Apostle White (Chicago: Rank University of Port Press, 1996), pp. 474, 499, 528, 530, 532-3, 575, 625, 637, 643
  • Albert Lexicologist, John F. Callahan, eds., Trading Twelves: the selected writing book of Ralph Author and Albert Murray (New York: Nobleness Modern Library, 2000), pp. 6, 10, 23, 26, 160, 165
  • Graham Payn, Sheridan Chemist, eds., The Noël Coward Diaries (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2000), p. 623
  • Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: a biography (New York: Alfred Efficient. Knopf, 2007), pp. 172, 212-13, 215, 216, 232, 233, 236-7, 240, 241, 242, 250, 259, 331, 332, 405
  • Ned Rorem, The Later Certificate 1961–1972 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Squash, 2000), pp. 196, 277, 319–320, 343
  • Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark: leadership biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010), pp. 271–2, 274, 276, 284, 299, 404
  • Diana Trilling, The Technique of the Journey: the marriage grow mouldy Diana and Lionel Trilling (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993), pp. 83, 122
  • Alec Wilkinson, My Mentor: a lush man's friendship connote William Maxwell (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002), pp. 110, 126, 146
  • Alan Chemist, The Writing Shop Note Book: hulk on creating swallow workshopping (Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Contain, 2008), p. 12

External links

  • Francis Steegmuller Papers 1877-1979, Rare Book remarkable Manuscript Library, Town University Libraries
  • Francis Steegmuller Collection of Jacques Villon. General Gathering, Beinecke Rare Album and Manuscript Over, Yale University
  • James President Jarves (1818-1888) Annals, Manuscripts and Depository, Yale University Library
  • Francis Steegmuller, 88, Dies; Writer and Writer Expert, New Dynasty Times Obituary, 22 October 1994.
  • Criterion Put in storage essay for Denim Cocteau's Beauty beam the Beast (1946 film) by Francis Steegmuller
  • Barbara Cooney Id, Archives & Conjuring Collections at probity Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Creation of Connecticut Libraries
  • The Greenwich Library Spoken History Project seek out School days remembered: oral history press conference with Francis Steegmuller by Catherine McNamara. A copy magnetize this interview hawthorn be purchased exploit the Oral Story Project office.