University of Wyoming
Alan Swallow (1915-1966) established a successful publishing business following resignation as an associate professor English at Denver University in 1954. His business, Swallow Publications and Sage Books, published poetry, fiction, literary criticism, Western history, and bibliography. Alan Swallow is the author of Xi Poems, The Remembered Land, The War Poems of Alan Swallow, The Nameless Sight: Poems 1937-1956, The Beginning Writer, An Editor’s Essay of Two Decades, and New Signatures.
Collection contains biographical and autobiographical information; newspaper and magazine clippings about Swallow and his work; a manuscript by Virginia McConnell titled Alan Swallow and Western Writers; correspondence; editorials by Swallow; and issues of Swallow Pamphlets and the Swallow New Poetry series.
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This material was received from Virginia McConnell Simons between December 1976 and August 1977.
Swallow Press records, 1967-1980, Coll MS S971, Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Alan Swallow papers, 1936-1966, Collection 860, Special Collections, University of California Los Angeles.
Alan Swallow correspondence, 1948-1967, C MSS-M1105, Denver Public Library.
Alan Swallow Papers 1934-1964, Bird Special Collections, Syracuse University.
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