ROBERT B. HEILMAN: HIS LIFE IN LETTERS
Edited by Edward Alexander, Richard Dunn, and Paul Jaussen
Joined by Gary Lundell of UW Libraries' Special Collections
University of Washington PressDATE: Thursday, May 7, 2009
TIME: 5:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Allen Auditorium, Suzzallo Library, University of Washington
MORE: Robert B. Heilman was a great literary figure of the twentieth
century. This collection of his correspondence includes over 600
exchanges with more than 100 correspondents, among them Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, Saul Bellow,
Kenneth Burke, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Eberhart, Charles Johnson,
Bernard Malamud, and William Carlos Williams.
The letters follow
Heilman's career from the time he was a thirty-six-year-old member of
Louisiana State University's English Department, through his tenure at
the University of Washington from 1948 to 1975, until a few years
before his death in 2004. Two of his appointees who spent their entire
careers at the University of Washington, Edward Alexander and Richard
Dunn, have edited the letters with Paul Jaussen.
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