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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Leslie A. Field Collection #70020, North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Note: Collection number changed from #CW9 to #70020 in April 2020.]

Acquisitions Information

Received from Joyce Field in 2017 (Acc. 103291) and February 2019 (Acc. 103563).

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Processed by: John Blythe, Nancy Kaiser, Lydia Neuroth, and Caitlin Rivas, January 2018

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2018

Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2019

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from CW9 to 70020

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• Field, Leslie A.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Criticism, Textual.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Relations with editors.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

Leslie Arthur Field ("Les"), a white author, wrote five books and numerous articles and reviews about Thomas Wolfe and his writings. Field taught in the English department at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, from 1956 to 1991. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1926 and grew up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Field earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Wayne State University and completed his doctorate in English at Indiana University. Field’s published works on Wolfe include Thomas Wolfe: Three Decades of Criticism, Thomas Wolfe and His Editors: Establishing a True Text for the Posthumous Publications, and The Autobiography of an American Novelist. He was also author of two unpublished manuscripts about Wolfe. Field was a long-time member of the Thomas Wolfe Society and a mentor to younger Wolfe scholars. In addition to his research on Wolfe, Field also produced works on such modern Jewish-American writers as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Field and his wife, Joyce W. Field, collaborated on two works about Bernard Malamud. He died, at age 85, in Lafayette, Indiana, on 22 June 2012.

The Leslie A. Field Collection consists of manuscript drafts, editorials, research files, and correspondence related to publications about Thomas Wolfe by Field and others. There are also files relating to Field's unpublished manuscripts on Wolfe; work conducted while a visiting scholar at Bar-Iain University in Tel Aviv, Israel and in France; speeches; Thomas Wolfe Society materials; and articles and clippings about Wolfe, written by Field and others. Correspondents include Joseph Bentz, Morton Teicher, Aldo Magi, and other Wolfe scholars.

• DF-CW9/1
• C-CW9/1