Novels, Plays, and Short Stories: Typescripts, Notebooks, and Notes, 1959-1988

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Scope and Contents

Includes materials related to stories, plays, and novels by Joseph Towles. Titles include Tomatoes, Back Home Again, The Summer is Past, Irvingville (written under alias Glen Wesley), Gone Off To Africa, The Proud Turkey, The Home Seekers, and others. Works focus chiefly on African-Americans, homosexuality, Civil war, and life in the rural South. Several contain homoerotic matter. Also contains newspaper articles and annotations by Colin Turnbull.

Dates

Creation: 1959-1988

Creator

From the Collection: Towles, Joseph A. (Person)
From the Collection: Turnbull, Colin M. (Person)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Material is in English

Access Restrictions

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