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Papers, 1972-2001, of Donald M. Fiene at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Repository:
Lilly
Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
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Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
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Creator:
Fiene, Donald M.
Extent:
170 items
Title:
Fiene mss., 1972-2001
Collection No.:
LMC 2370
Extent:
170 items
Language:
Materials are in English
Abstract:
Consists mainly of correspondence between
Professor Donald Mark Fiene, 1930- and author Kurt Vonnegut, 1922- regarding current
activities in both of their lives and often discussing literary affairs.
This collection is open for research.
Professor of Russian.
Donald Mark Fiene was born in Schenectady, N.Y. He studied at Cornell University, 1947-1951, the University of Louisville (M.A., 1961), and Indiana University (Ph.D., 1974). He taught at the University of Louisville as a lecturer and instructor, 1960-1972, and as a professor of Russian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1974 until his retirement in 1995. Among his other works he published Alexander Solzhenitsyn: An International Bibliography of Writings By and About Him, 1962-1973 (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1973).
Arranged chronologically, with the photocopy of Fiene's text, "First meeting" filed at the end.
Consists mainly of correspondence between Professor Donald Mark Fiene, 1930- and author Kurt Vonnegut, 1922- regarding current activities in both of their lives and often discussing literary affairs. The letters from the 1970s concern Vonnegut's meeting with his Russian translator Rita Rait in Paris and his efforts on her behalf for honorary membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1979, together with photocopies of typed postcards signed by Arthur Miller and John Updike seconding her nomination. Other letters from Vonnegut offer advice to Fiene on his literary works, as well as comments on his own projects; discuss Fiene's family life; and relate their shared struggles with depression. The collection includes the originals of Vonnegut's letters to Fiene, and carbon or photocopies of Fiene's letters to Vonnegut.
Also present in the collection are a photograph of Vonnegut and Rait taken in Paris Oct. 28, 1972, a bumper sticker with an undated note from Vonnegut, and the photocopy of a text, "First meeting," by Fiene that was published in Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnnegut: a Festschrift for Kurt Vonnegut on his sixtieth birthday , 1982.
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Acquisition Information:
Purchase. 2002
Usage Restrictions:
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Photocopying permitted only with the permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library
Preferred Citation:
[Item], Fiene mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
