Date Span: | 1957-1994 |
Creator: | Lee, Alfred M. |
Extent: | 1.50 linear feet. |
Collection Number: | MSC0851 |
Repository: | University of Iowa Special Collections |
Summary: | Graduate of the Writers' Workshop, novelist and poet. This collection contains manuscripts, clippings, a photograph, and correspondence. Correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, John F. Kennedy, Mark Strand, Cleanth Brooks, and Donald Justice among others. |
Access: This collection is open for research.
Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.
Acquisition:
Preferred Citation: Al M. Lee Papers, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.
Repository: | University of Iowa Special Collections |
Address: | Special Collections Department University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
Phone: | 319-335-5921 |
Curator: | Greg Prickman |
Email: | lib-spec@uiowa.edu |
Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc |
Alfred Matthew Lee was born in 1938 in Louisville, Kentucky and educated at Male High School, were he won a scholarship to Yale. After graduating from Yale in 1960, he attended the Writer's Workshop in Iowa City. In 1963 -- 1964 he served in the Peace Corps in Ghana. After living in New York for a time, he accepted a teaching position in the English and Humanities Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1977.
Lee published a book of poetry, Time, and edited Major Young Poets.
He died on November 26, 1994, at the age of fifty-six.
Browse by Series:
Series 1: CLIPPINGS AND DOCUMENTS
Series 2: LETTERS
Series 3: NOVELS BY AL LEE
Series 4: PROSE MANUSCRIPTS
Series 5: POEMS BY AL LEE
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