Babette Deutsch, 1895-1982. American author
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Finding-Aid for the Deutsch Papers [00034]Collection Description
Papers, 1921-1969.
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Babette Deutsch was an author of poetry, fiction, criticism, and juvenile fiction as well as a prolific translator of Russian and German poetry. A native of New York City, Deutsch spent most of her life there. She attended Barnard College and taught at the New School for Social Research in the 1930's and at Columbia University for nearly 30 years beginning in 1944. Deutsch's published collections of poetry and translations number 22.
Deutsch's long career and her location in New York City put her in contact with a great number of important American Literary figures, and Washington University's Babette Deutsch Papers consist primarily of correspondence with these individuals. The collection includes letters from William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Conrad Aiken, E.A. Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Thomas MacGreevy, and Dorothy Richardson, among others. Also included are a draft, proofs and editorial material relating to The Collected Poems of Babette Deutsch, published in 1969 by Doubleday.
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Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982. American author
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973. American author
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. American author
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962. American author
MacGreevy, Thomas, 1893-1967. Irish author
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972. American author
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982. American author
Richardson, Dorothy M., 1873-1957. British author
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935. American author
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963. American author
Wiliams, William Carlos, 1893-1963. American author