Shaara - Agents and Publishing Activities

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Subseries 3.1: Agents and publishing activities, 1948-1988 and n.d. (0.45 linear feet)

This subseries consists of all correspondence directly related to Shaara's writing and publishing activities, including that with publishers, editors, employees of popular and literary periodicals, and literary agents. In addition, this series includes professionals who were involved in the production of Shaara's literary works as illustrators, photographers, and cartographers. Of particular note is the correspondence from Donald T. Pitcher, who drew the maps of Gettysburg for Shaara's novel, The Killer Angels.

Over the years, Shaara was represented by many literary agents: Frederick Pohl (1952-1953), Harry Altshuler (1953-1961), Harold Matson Company (1964-1965), McIntosh and Otis (1966-1971), Scott Meredith Literary Agency (1971-1973, and 1980s), John Cushman Associates (1973-1976), Sterling Lord Agency, Inc. (1976-1977), and Lou Reda Productions (1977-1979). Several individuals appear under more than one corporate entity, most notably James O'Shea Wade. Wade was the editorial director at David McKay Company, Inc. and worked with Shaara on The Killer Angels project. Although Wade served at several publishing companies, he kept up correspondence with Shaara. The David McKay file provides key information on the process of editing, publishing, and promoting The Killer Angels (1974).

File folders primarily contain incoming letters interspersed with some letters from Shaara. In the finding aid, file folder descriptions with the star symbol symbol indicate that letter(s) from Shaara are included. For the sake of continuity, correspondence sent to the author's literary agent from publishers, editors, and magazines about Shaara was placed under the addressed literary agent. Materials are arranged alphabetically by corporate or personal name with the names of all corporate correspondents listed in parentheses. When corporate names changed over time (i.e., Fantasy and Science Fiction, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction), all the variant names appear in the entry.

See Series I: Writings for correspondence placed with particular manuscripts: "Billy Boy"; "Corky the Prill"; "The Chang Po Effect"; "The Dark Angel"; "Debut"; "Fifty Percent"; "Girl in the Mirror"; "Groomsday"; The Herald; "The Herald of the Lightning"; "Last Ticket, Last Train"; "Letter From Damascus"; "The Man on the White Horse"; "No Game for Boys"; "Nothing To It"; "Perfect Shock"; "Rebel West; Saturday's Child"; "Shipskirt"; "A Tale For Poor Losers"; and "A Tale For the End of Summer".

Additional materials related to items in this subseries may be found in Series III: Correspondence - - Derivative works; Series III: Correspondence - - Financial and legal; Series III: Correspondence - - Professional activities; Series V: Financial and legal papers; Series VII: Clippings; Series IX: Serials; Series XI: Maps.

Series	Box	Folder	Subseries Description	Item Description	Number of Items
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 1	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Addison Wesley - - (John B. Taylor), n.d.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 2	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Allyn and Bacon - - (Leslie Johns, Donald J. Tighe), 1968-1969.	4 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 3	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Apalachee Quarterly - - (Pete Le Forge), 1980.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 4	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Atheneum - - (Herman Gollob), 1975.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 5	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Atlantic Monthly - - (Alfred C. Harrison), 1965.	2 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 6	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Author’s Guild - - (Rex Stout), 1974.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 7	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Author’s Workshop for Veterans - - (Jay Zarchin), 1948.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 8	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Avon Books - - (Steven Bradbury, John Douglas, Robert B. Wyatt), 1976, 1982-1984.	5 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 9	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Ballantine Books - - (Diana Levine), 1975.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 10	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Ben Moshe, Avner - - (Avner Ben Moshe), 1969-1971.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 11	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Bobbs-Merrill Company - - (Tom Gervasi), 1973.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 12	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Book-of the- Month Club, Inc. - - (David W. McCullough), 1974.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 13	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Car and Driver - - (Stephan Wilkinson), 1976.	4 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 14	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Charles Scribner’s Sons - - (Laurie Graham), 1976.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 15	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Condé Nast Publications, Inc. - - (William P. Rayner), 1975.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 16	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Cosmopolitan - - (Bill Guy), 1962.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 17	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Crown Publishers - - (James O’Shea Wade), 1983, 1987-1988.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 18	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	David McKay Company, Inc. - - (Carolyn Anthony, Stacey Connett, David, Currier, Jeanette English, Deloris Ferrell, Alan Tucker, Ellena Tyler, James O’Shea Wade), 1973-1977.	46 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 19	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	D.C. Thompson & Co., Ltd. - - (Elizabeth A. Amsden), 1968.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 20	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Dial Press - - (James O’Shea Wade), 1975-1976.	7 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 21	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Donald T. Pitcher, Cartographer - - (Donald T. Pitcher), 1974-1975.	2 letters plus one holograph note from Shaara
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 22	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Doubleday & Company, Inc. - - (Walter I. Bradbury, Lisa Drew, Lawrence S. Freundlich, Stewart Richardson, Hugh O’Neil),1968,1975,1976,1983	6 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 23	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Editorial Labor, S.A. - - (J. Lasso de la Vega), 1960-1961.	6 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 24	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Esquire - - (Kenneth White), 1952.	4 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 25	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Fantastic Worlds: The Literary Quarterly of Science Fiction - - (Sam Sackett), 1953.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 26	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Fantasy and Science Fiction / Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - - (Anthony Boucher, Constance DiRienzo, J. Francis McCowan, Robert P. Mills), 1951-1953, 1968.	8 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 27	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Franklin Watts, Inc. - - (Elizabeth Abell), 1962.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 28	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Frederick Pohl, Author’s Agent - - (Warren Brown, Anthony Boucher, Frederick Pohl, Babette Rosmond, Eleanor Stierham), 1952-1953.	10 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 29	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Futura Publications Limited - - (Jacqueline Baker, Linda Thorling), 1975-1977.	4 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 30	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Galaxy - - (H.L. Gold, Robert M. Guinn), 1951-1952.	4 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 31	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Ginn and Company - - (Dennis B. Murray), 1970.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 32	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Good Housekeeping - - (Robert Liles), 1975.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 33	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Grisewood & Dempsey, Ltd. - - (Nan Froman), 1988. (from Lila Shaara)	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 34	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Harold Matson Company, Inc. - - (Betty Ballantine, Don Congdon, Tay Hohoff, Eleanor S. Rawson, James H. Silberman, William Targ), 1964-1965.	19 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 35	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Harold Ober Associates, Inc. - - 1964.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 36	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Harper & Row - - (Kitty Benedict, Ann Harris, John Leggett), 1964, 1975.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 37	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Harper’s Magazine - - n.d.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 38	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Harry Altshuler, Author’s Agent - - (Harry Altshuler, Betty Finnin, H.L. Gold, Bill Guy, Helen Johnson, Lilian Kastendike, Robert Murphy, Jack O’Sullivan, Ray Russell), 1953-1961,1971,1975.	41 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 39	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Holt, Rinehart and Winston - - (Susan H. Arensberg, Arthur A. Cohen, Thomas C. Wallace), 1964, 1968, 1976.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 40	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Houghton Mifflin Company - - (William A. Jamison, Austin Olney), 1965,-1966, 1976.	4 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 41	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	International Famous Agency - - (Betty Anne Clarke), 1973.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 42	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	International Press Agency (Pty.) Ltd., - - (June Botha, P. Miller), 1962-1963, 1965-1966, 1968.	21 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 43	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	J.B. Lippincott - - (Tay Hohoff), 1965.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 44	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Jeff Herman Agency, Inc. - - (Jeff Herman), 1987.	2 letters plus enclosures
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 45	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	John Cushman Associates, Inc. - (Stephen M. Blackwelder, Jane Bloom, John Cushman, George A. Halaby, Judith Harris, Michael L. Kresbach, Bill Van Assen), 1973-1976.	27 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 46	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Ladies Home Journal - - n.d.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 47	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Library Journal - - (Margaret Cooley), 1967.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 48	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Little, Brown & Company - - (Larned G. Bradford, Herman Gollob, William Jarret, Mary H. Wall), 1963-1964, 1975.	8 letters plus carbon copy
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 49	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Lou Reda Productions - - (Frederick Brogger, Barbara Grant, Gladys J. Carr, John Douglas, Steve Mitchell, John Nicnick, Lou Reda, Tatiana Valková), 1977-1979.	32 letters plus enclosures
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 50	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. - - (Kitty Benedict), 1978.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 51	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	McCall’s - - (Barbara Blakemore, Robert Stein), 1968, 1973.	2 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 52	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	McGraw-Hill Book Company - - (John R. Bregio, Alexander J. Burke, Gladys Justin Carr, Meredith, Davis, Victor De Keyserling, Thomas J. Dembofsky, Fred O. Dickinson, Jr., Attorney at Law, Patrick H. Donigan, Pieter Dumpel, Gail E. Greene, Larry Levy, Attorney at Law, Kurt D. Steele, Paul Weiss), 1977-1981.	36 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 53	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	McIntosh and Otis, Inc. - - (Julie Fallowfield, Lawrence S. Freundlich, Marion Irving, Frances Perle, Patricia Schartle), (1966-1970)	34 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 54	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Nautilus Books - - (Howard P. Galloway), 1971.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 55	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	New American Library (NAL) - - (Jonathan Dolger, Ezra M. Eisen, Dudley Frasier, Ed Kuhn, Bernice Lindenbaum, Jay Tower), 1966-1968, 1970.	17 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 56	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	New Yorker - - 1965.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 57	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Omni Publications International - - 1979.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 58	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Playback Associates - - (James C. Crimmins), 1977	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 59	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Playboy - - (Frank DeBlois), 1963.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 60	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Pocket Books - - (John Douglas, Florence Porrino), 1979-1982.	8 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 61	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Prentice-Hall, Inc. - - (Oscar Collier), 1976.	5 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 62	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Prohaska, Ray - - (Ray Prohaska), 1957.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 63	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Random House - - (James H. Silberman), 1975.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 64	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Reader’s Digest - - (Elinor A. Griffith, John S. Zinsser), 1976, 1987.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 65	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Redbook Magazine - - (Barbara Blakemore, Ginny Cammarata, Sey Chassler, Lilian Kastendike , Wade H. Nichols, Robert Stein, Anne Mollegen Smith, Neil G. Thorpe), 1958, 1961,1963,1965, 1972-1973,1975-1976.	22 letters plus enclosures
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 66	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Robert Harben, Literary Agency - - (Robert Harben), 1973.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 67	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Russell & Volkening, Inc. - - (Candida Donadio), 1965.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 68	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Saturday Evening Post - - (Ann Bayer, Bill Briesky, John Hunt, Don McKinney, Jeff Brown, Robert Murphy), 1961-1963, 1965-1966.	24 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 69	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc. - - (Stephen M. Blackwelder, Kurt Busiek, Barry N. Malzbert, Scott Meredith, Jack Scovil, Anton Tibbe, James O’Shea Wade), 1971-1973, 1981, 1984, 1987-1988, n.d.	37 letters plus enclosures
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 70	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Silverberg, Robert - - (Robert Silverberg), 1975, 1977-1978.	5 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 71	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Simon and Schuster - - (Jonathan Dolger), 1968, 1971, n.d.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 72	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Staver & Scott Photography - - (Bob Scott), 1975.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 73	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Sterling Lord Agency, Inc. - - (Claire S. Degener, Sterling Lord), 1976-1977, n.d.	8 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 74	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Street & Smith - - (John W. Campbell, Jr.), 1951.	2 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 75	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Stroud Management - - (Marie L. Stroud), 1975.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 76	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Sydney Morning Herald Limited - - (Leo Armati, Anna Brennan), 1973.	2 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 77	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Warner Brothers - - (Stephen M. Blackwelder), 1972, 1974, n.d.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 78	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	WashingtonPost - - (Steve Petranek), 1987.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 79	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Wells, Dean Faulkner - - (Dean Faulkner Wells), 1981.	2 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 80	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Western Printing - - (Knox Burger), 1953.	1 letter
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 81	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd. - - (Kate Fleming, Victoria Huxley, Irene Macdonald, Yvette Morgan-Griffiths, Joanna Pappworth), 1975-1977.	14 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 82	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	William Morrow & Company, Inc. - - (Jackie Farber, Lawrence Hughes), 1976.	3 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 83	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Writer - - (A.S. Burack), 1958, 1960-1962.	6 letters
Subseries 3.1	Box 7	Folder 84	Correspondence - - Agents and publishing activities	Writer’s Digest - - (E. Walker Stewart), 1951.	1 letter

Subseries 3.1: Agents and publishing activities
Subseries 3.2: Derivative works
Subseries 3.3: Financial and legal
Subseries 3.4: Personal and family
Subseries 3.5: Professional activities, awards, interviews, and lectures
Subseries 3.6: Students
Subseries 3.7: General correspondence

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