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1. Interview of Guy Endore

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Communist Party
Sleepy Lagoon Case
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Novelist, screenwriter, and activist. Member of the Communist Party.

2. Interview of Marta Feuchtwanger

Topic:
German Émigrés
Literature
Length:
50 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
German émigré. Wife of author Lion Feuchtwanger.

3. Interview of Edouard Roditi

Topic:
Literature
Length:
12 hrs. 15 min.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Poet, short-story writer, and translator.

4. Interview of Ray Bradbury

Topic:
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Science fiction author and screenwriter.

5. Interview of Henry James Forman

Topic:
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Author and editor for the New York Sun, Literary Digest, North American Review, and Collier’s.

6. Interview of A. E. Van Vogt

Topic:
Literature
Length:
359 leaves : index.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Science fiction author.

7. Interview of Lawrence Lipton

Topic:
Journalism
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Journalist, mystery novel writer, and beat poet.

8. Interview of Emmet G. Lavery

Topic:
Literature
Theater
Length:
196 leaves : index.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Producer and entertainment lawyer. Director of business affairs for 20th Century Fox Television and vice president of business affairs for Paramount Television. Founder of Emmet G. Lavery Jr. Productions and vice president of business affairs for DLT Entertainment.

11. Interview of Mel Weisburd

Topic:
Literature
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Poet and essayist. Co-founder and editor of the literary journal Coastlines.

12. Interview of Jay Ruby

Topic:
Community History
Literature
Length:
4.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Temple University professor of anthropology. Founding member of the Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication. Interviewed because of connection to Coffee House Positano: A Bohemian Oasis in Malibu.

13. Interview of Carolyn See

Topic:
Literature
Length:
14 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Author who writes books based in west Los Angeles.

14. Interview of Deena Metzger

Topic:
Literature
Length:
13.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Novelist, poet, essayist, and teacher.

15. Interview of Angela Ward

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party and the Independent Progressive Party. Organizer for the Office and Professional Employees Union and the Utility Workers Organizing Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

16. Interview of Bill Bailey

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party. Served with the Republican forces of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.

17. Interview of Ruth Maguire

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party.

18. Interview of Meridel Le Sueur

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Literature
Communist Party
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Leftist novelist and journalist.

19. Interview of Rachel Tilsen

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Daughter of leftist novelist and journalist Meridel Le Sueur.

20. Interview of Edna Whitehouse

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party.