Typed letter signed and typed questionnaire response : Santa Cruz, to Katherine Fishman, 1970 Apr. 17.

Record ID: 
381963
Accession number: 
MA 5658.15
Author: 
Hall, James B. (James Byron), 1918-2008.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description: 
1 item (3 p. ) ; 27.8 cm
Summary: 

Commenting, in his cover letter, on the state of American writers and the topics he wished had been included in the questionnaire; replying to all 39 questions and commenting in his answers on the erosion of "public confidence in fiction" and the "merchandising of inferior art for excessive profit;" naming Paul Horgan and James G. Cozzens are writers whose prose style he admires; naming "Things as They Are" [Horgan] as his favorite novel of the past five years.

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.