Descriptive Summary
Hoagland, Edward
Edward Hoagland Papers,
1953-2007 and undated
Papers of author
Edward Hoagland from 1953-2007 and undated.
R19.1
Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University
1 box (1 linear
foot)
English.
Biographical Sketch
Edward Hoagland is a writer born in New York in 1932. Hoagland has
written several books of fiction but since the late 1960s he has become known
almost exclusively for his nonfiction. His first novel, Cat Man, won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship
Award in 1956. The Los Angeles Times has called
Hoagland "one of our best and most esteemed nature writers." He won the
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1979 and a National
Endowment for the Arts award in 1982 among many others. Hoagland has also
contributed to numerous periodicals, including Harpers,
Esquire, New Yorker, New American Review, Transatlantic Review, Sports
Illustrated, and New York Times.
Book publications include:
Fiction
- Hoagland, Edward.Cat Man.Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1956
- Hoagland, Edward.The Circle Home.New
York: Crowell, 1960
- Hoagland, Edward.The Peacock's
Tail.New York: McGraw Hill, 1965
- Hoagland, Edward.Seven Rivers
West.New York: Summit Books, 1986
- Hoagland, Edward.The Final Fate of the
Alligators.Santa Barbara: Capra, 1992
Nonfiction
- Hoagland, Edward.Notes from the Century
Before: A Journal from British Columbia. New York: Random House,
1969
- Hoagland, Edward.The Courage of Turtles:
Fifteen Essays. New York: Random House, 1971
- Hoagland, Edward.Walking the Dead Diamond
River.New York: Random House, 1973
- Hoagland, Edward.The Moose on the Wall:
Field Notes from the Vermont Wilderness. London: Barrie & Jenkins,
1974
- Hoagland, Edward.Red Wolves and Black
Bears. New York: Random House, 1976
- Hoagland, Edward.African Calliope: A
Journey to the Sudan. New York: Random House, 1979
- Hoagland, Edward.The Edward Hoagland
Reader. edited by Geoffrey Wolff. New York: Random House, 1979
- Hoagland, Edward.The Tugman's
Passage. New York: Random House, 1982
- Hoagland, Edward.City Tales. Santa
Barbara: Capra, 1986
- Hoagland, Edward.Heart's Desire: The Best
of Edward Hoagland. New York: Summit Books, 1988
- Hoagland, Edward.Balancing Acts. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1992
- Hoagland, Edward.Tigers and Ice:
Reflections on Nature and Life New York: Lyons, 1999
- Hoagland, Edward.Compass Points: How I
Lived. New York: Pantheon, 2001
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts.
The collection is in good condition and is part of the James Sowell
Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World.
Organization
The correspondence is organized alphabetically according to the
correspondent's last name.
Index Terms
The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed.
Subjects (Persons)
Hoagland, Edward
Hoagland, Edward--Correspondence
Hoagland, Edward--"The Colonel's Power"
Hoagland, Edward--The Peacock's Tail
Collection accession #(s): 2007-0050-X, 2007-0192-X
Purchase, 2007
Access Restrictions
Items are open for research.
Processed by
Jamie Wormsbaker, 2007
Preferred Citation
Edward Hoagland Papers, 1953-2007 and undated, Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
Texas
For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
- Barry Lopez Papers, 1964-2001 and undated
- Rick Bass Papers, 1959-2002 and undated
- Doug Peacock Papers, 1950-2000 and undated
- Bill McKibben Papers, 1971-2001 and undate
- David Quammen Papers, 1956-1999 and undated
- Pattiann Rogers Papers, 1960-1999 and undated
- Annick Smith Papers, 1940-2000 and undated
- William Kittredge Papers, 1954-2000 and undated
- David James Duncan Papers, 1959-2002 and undated
Collection Inventory
Correspondence
1
1
Diane Ackerman, 1 typed letter, 1 autograph note signed,
July 2, 1990 and
undated
1
2
Jennifer Ackerman,1 typed letter signed,
November 23,
1994
1
3
Nelson Algren,1 typed postcard,
February 4,
1959
1
4
Louis Auchincloss, 1 autograph letter signed,
October 14,
1993
1
5
Russell Baker, 1 typed note (to Joe Fox, Random House
editor),
January 5,
1981
1
6
Russell Banks, 1 autograph note signed, 1 typed letter,
January 3, 1983 and May
21, 1992
1
7
John Barth, 3 typed notes signed, 1 autograph note
signed, photocopy of intro. for Beautiful
Swimmers,
1967-2005
1
8
Wendell Berry, 5 autograph letters signed, 3 autograph
notes signed,
1985-1987
1
9
John Berryman, 1 typed poem (2 p., title: “American
Lights, Seen From Off Abroad”), 1 autograph letter signed,
Oct. 7, 1957 and April
1962
1
10
Robert Bly, 1 typed note signed,
March 5, 2001
1
11
Vance Bourjaily, 1 typed letter signed, 1 autograph note
signed (the typed letter refers to Abbey, among other things),
January 14, 1985 and
January 26, 1988
1
12
Kay Boyle, 1 typed letter signed, 1 autograph letter
signed,
September 5, 1981 and
October 7, 1981
1
13
Stewart Brand, 1 typed note signed (Brand is a cousin of
Hoagland’s),
May 15, 1990
1
14
Hayden Carruth, 8 typed letters signed, 2 typed notes
signed, 4 typed postcards, 1 autograph letter signed, 2 autograph notes signed,
1 autograph postcard,
1959-1995
1
15
John Ciardi, 2 typed letters signed, 1 typed note
signed, 1 autograph letter signed, 2 autograph postcards; Ciardi was Hoagland’s
teacher at Harvard,
1953-1960 and
undated
1
16
Henry Steele Commager, 1 typed postcard signed, 2 typed
letters signed, 1 typed note signed,
1980 and
undated
1
17
Malcolm Cowley, 1 typed letter signed, a blurb about
Hoagland nominating him for the Academy; Cowley is Hoagland’s benefactor,
December 24,
1981
1
18
Archibald Cox, 1 typed note signed,
May 31, 1974
1
19
David Del Tredici, 1 autograph postcard; Tredici is a
composer,
July 9, 1984
1
20
Guy Davenport, 11 typed letters signed, 1 typed note
signed; Davenport is a writer; his letters are long and philosophical in
nature,
1981-1987
1
21
Anita Desai, 1 typed letter signed,
November 31,
1997
1
22
James Dickey, 4 typed letters signed, 1 autograph note
signed; Dickey wrote the intro. for the Nature series,
1984-1987
1
23
Annie Dillard, 3 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph
note signed, 5 autograph postcards signed, 1 typed blurb; Dillard and Hoagland
are long time friends,
1983-1996
1
24
E.L. Doctorow, 1 typed letter signed, 1 typed note
signed, 1 autograph letter signed,
1992-1995
1
25
Ivan Doig, 3 typed letters signed, 2 typed postcards
signed,
1978-1985
1
26
Edel Leon, 1 typed note signed,
April 11, 1991
1
27
Gretel Ehrlich, 20 typed letters signed, 4 autograph
letters signed, 3 autograph notes signed, 28 autograph postcards signed;
Ehrlich was a close friend—long correspondence going back to 1970,
1970-2005
1
28
Louise Erdrich, 1 typed letter signed, 3 autograph
letters signed, 1 autograph note signed,
1990-1991
1
29
Charles G. Finney, 1 typed note signed; Finney is the
author of Circus of Doctor Lao,
July 15, 1982
1
30
John Fowles, 1 autograph postcard,
January 26,
1980
1
31
Allen Ginsberg, 2 autograph postcards,
January 10, 1987 and
January 21, 1987
1
32
Herbert Gold, 1 typed note, signed,
undated
1
33
John Graves, 1 typed letter signed, 1 autograph letter
signed,
March 29, 1985 and March
13, 1987
1
34
John Haines, 5 typed letters signed, 1 typed postcard;
Haines is an Alaskan writer, wrote intro to Muir in Nature Series,
1994-1995
1
35
Donald Hall, 2 typed letters signed, 3 typed notes
signed, 1 typed postcard; Hall is a poet,
November 30, 1984-August
16, 1994
1
36
Pete Hamill, 5 typed letters signed; Hamill is an old
friend, journalist, novelist,
1982-1996
1
37
Hugh Hardy, 1 typed letter signed; Hardy is an
architect,
June 11, 1987
1
38
Jim Harrison, 2 typed letters signed, 1 typed note
signed, 1 autograph postcard,
1974-1987
1
39
John Hawkes, 1 autograph letter signed; Hawkes is a
novelist who gave Hoagland his job at Brown when he retired,
July 14, 1994
1
40
Hannah Hinchman, 1 autograph letter signed; Hinchman is
a Wyoming writer,
January 18,
1989
1
41
John Hollander, 1 autograph letter signed,
September 29,
1997
1
42
Paul Horgan, 2 typed letters signed, 1 typed postcard,
August 1985
1
43
John Irving, 4 typed letters signed, 1 typed note
signed; John Irving is a novelist and friend of Hoagland’s,
1981-2000
1
44
Jane Jacobs, 1 autograph letter signed; Jacobs is a
sociologist and writer on cities,
January 18,
1970
1
45
Alfred Kazin, 6 typed letters signed, 9 typed notes
signed,
1958-1997
1
46
Garrison Keillor, 3 autograph letters signed, 2
autograph postcards, 1 typed note signed; Keillor is a humorist and writer,
1982-2003 and
undated
1
47
Galway Kinnell, 1 typed letter signed, 2 typed notes
signed, 1 autograph letter signed, 1 autograph note signed, 6 autograph
postcards; Kinnell is a poet,
1978-2004
1
48
Jerzy Kosinski, 1 typed letter signed; Kosinski is a
novelist,
July 25, 1973
1
49
Anne Lamott, 20 typed letters signed, 3 typed notes
signed, 3 typed postcards, 2 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph note signed;
Lamott is a friend of Hoagland’s as well as a fiction/nonfiction writer,
1974-1985
1
50
Phillip Lopate, 3 autograph letters signed,
1993-2007
1
51
Barry Lopez, 4 typed letters signed, 6 typed notes
signed, 1 typed postcard signed,
1984-1992
1
52
Archibald MacLeish, 4 typed letters signed, 15 typed
notes signed, 1 autograph letter signed, 8 autograph notes signed, 3 autograph
postcards; MacLeish is a teacher and mentor of Hoagland’s,
1955-1981
1
53
David Markson, 1 autograph postcard,
November 21,
2005
1
54
Bernard Malamud, 2 autograph letters signed, 2 autograph
postcards; Malamud is a novelist and teacher at Bennington,
1968-1974
1
55
Peter Matthiessen, 1 typed letter signed, 1 typed note
signed, 2 autograph notes signed, 1 autograph postcard signed,
1985-1987 and
undated
1
56
Bill McKibben, 1 typed letter signed,
November 13,
1989
1
57
Larry McMurtry, 3 typed letters signed, 1 autograph note
signed,
1985-1987
1
58
John McPhee, 3 typed letters signed, 2 autograph letters
signed, 3 autograph notes signed, 10 autograph postcards,
1973-1994
1
59
William Meredith, 1 typed note signed,
1982
1
60
Michael Millman, 2 typed letters signed; Millman is the
editor of the Penguin Nature series,
March 5, 1991
1
61
Susan Minot, 1 typed postcard signed; Minot is a
novelist and student of Hoagland’s,
June 20, 1983
1
62
Jan Morris, 2 autograph postcards; Morris is a travel
writer,
1985-1987
1
63
Howard Mosher, 11 autograph letters signed; Mosher is a
writer and friend of Hoagland’s,
1981-2005
1
64
Joyce Carol Oates, 2 typed postcards, 1 autograph
postcard,
1985-1988
1
65
Cynthia Ozick, 5 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph
note signed, 2 autograph postcards. 1 typed letter signed; Ozick is a writer
and friend of Hoagland’s,
1987-2005
1
66
Walker Percy, 1 autograph letter signed, 1 autograph
note signed,
December 27, 1982 and
February 31, 1983
1
67
Noel Perrin, 1 typed letter signed,
August 10,
1987
1
68
Marge Piercy, 8 typed letters signed, 2 typed postcards;
Piercy is a writer and was a “brief flame” of Hoagland’s,
1975-1980
1
69
George Plimpton, 2 typed notes signed,
undated
1
70
Michael Pollan, 1 typed letter signed,
December 3,
1989
1
71
Annie Proulx, 3 typed letters signed, 2 typed notes
signed, 1 autograph letter signed, 2 autograph postcards, also includes a book
proposal, typed; Hoagland blurbed Proulx’s first book; she blurbed his memoir,
1989-2005
1
72
Johnathan Raban, 1 typed letter signed,
February 10,
1980
1
73
Howell Raines, 1 typed note signed; Raines is the NY
Times editor,
April 25, 1995
1
74
Ned Rorem, 1 autograph note signed,
September 16,
1983
1
75
Harold Rosenberg, 1 autograph postcard signed, 1 typed
note signed,
February 26, 1961 and
February 21, 1961
1
76
Budd Schulberg, 1 typed note signed,
March 24, 1986
1
77
Wilfred Sheed, 2 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph
note signed; Sheed is a novelist,
1974 and
undated
1
78
Alex Shoumatoff, 1 autograph note signed,
undated
1
79
Charlie Smith, 1 autograph letter signed,
undated
1
80
Gary Snyder, 3 typed letters signed, 1 typed note
signed, 1 autograph letter signed, 1 autograph note signed; Snyder and Hoagland
were friends who taught together at Davis,
1989-1990 and
undated
1
81
Wallace Stegner, 8 typed letters signed, 3 typed notes
signed,
1966-1989
1
82
John Szarkowski, 2 typed letters signed,
August 31, 2006 and
September 14, 2006
1
83
Paul Theroux, 5 typed letters signed, 1 typed note
signed, 4 autograph letters signed, 2 autograph notes signed, 9 autograph
postcards signed,
1979-2006 and
undated
1
84
Elizabeth M. Thomas, 4 typed letters signed, 3 autograph
letters signed; Thomas is a writer; Hoagland’s first girlfriend who married his
roommate,
1974-1987 and
undated
1
85
David Wagoner, 2 typed notes signed, 1 autograph note
signed,
1987 and
undated
1
86
James Welch, 2 typed notes signed,
July 30, 1974 and
December 17, 1990
1
87
Glenway Wescott, 1 autograph letter signed,
March 3, 1971
1
88
Richard Wilbur, 1 typed note signed,
November 22,
1983
1
89
E.O. Wilson, 2 typed letters signed, 1 autograph letter
signed, several journal articles written by E.O. Wilson, and newspaper
clippings,
1985-1995
1
90
Geoffrey Wolff, 3 typed letters signed, 1 autograph
letters signed,
1982-1996
1
91
Penguin Nature Library Material, includes letters from
T.H. Watkins and others, book lists, and statements,
1985-2006 and
undated
1
92
Raymond Carver?, 1 typed letter signed (though in a
folder marked “Ray Carver,” this may not be a Carver letter),
undated
Literary Production
1
93
“The Colonel’s Power,” 32 p. typescript, manuscript with
corrections, in Harold Ober Assoc. folder (agent),
c. 1968
1
94
The Peacock’s Tale,
typescript, manuscript with corrections, in Harold Ober Assoc. folder (agent),
c. 1965