Jarvis Thurston, 1914-. American author
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Finding-Aid for the Jarvis Thurston Papers [00114]Collection Description
Papers, 1959-196953 items
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Jarvis Thurston, a native of Utah, is an editor, author, and educator who studied at the University of Utah and the University of California at Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Iowa in 1946 and has been a professor of literature since that time. He taught at the University of Louisville for four years and in 1950 joined the faculty of Washington University. Thurston served as English Department chairman from 1967-1969 and retired in 1982. Thurston’s articles and short stories have appeared in literary magazine and anthologies; however, he is best known as an editor. While at the University of Louisville, he and his wife, the poet Mona Van Duyn, founded the quarterly Perspective and served as the magazine’s principal editors for its entire run from 1947 to 1975. Thurston has also edited several anthologies of short stories, principally for use in college classrooms.
The Jarvis Thurston Papers consist primarily of correspondence relating to Washington University’s Department of English and its visiting writers program. The most significant part of the Thurston collection is the correspondence from James T. Farrell to Thurston and Van Duyn. These letters are of a more personal nature and often discuss literary matters such as Van Duyn’s work. A small group of manuscripts, notably two drafts of a Thurston short story, “The Cross,” is also included.
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