Question of Identity

AHJ_ah02252 Inventory of the Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989 Braude (Michael) papers Processed by John Hanks The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid was made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission. University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/

2006

University of Wyoming

Finding aid encoded by Ann Mulfort April 2006 Finding aid is in English Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989 Collection number: 02252 University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. Publication date: 2006 Contact Information American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/ Date Processed January 2002

"©" 2006 University of Wyoming

Collection Summary Braude, Michael, 1909-1986 Michael Braude papers 1928-1989 02252 11.25 cubic ft. (25 document boxes) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English The Michael Braude papers include manuscripts of verse, drama, and prose. Also included are correspondence, periodicals, and published works related to his literary career. Most of the material is concerned with Jewish liberal themes, much of which is satirical or humorous in nature. Biography of Michael Braude

Michael Braude (1909-1986) was a successful businessman. He emigrated to the United States from Lithuania when he was 11. After World War II, he founded the Emkemkey car leasing company which became one the country’s largest fleet leasors. In 1959 he founded Quadrangle Books in Chicago and sold it to New York Times in 1969. His wealth allowed him to become principal benefactor of the University of Chicago’s Cort Theatre and the Hebrew University’s drama center in Jerusalem. He also sponsored poetry readings at his East Hampton, Long Island home.

Despite his entreprenuerial success Braude always regarded himself as a writer. He wrote five books of verse: Question of Identity; Who’s Zoo; Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker; Village Vignettes; and My 187th Birthday. He wrote a television screenplay, Gettysburg, for public television as well as an autobiography, The First 30 Odd Years, which was published in 1976. The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters gave the first Michael Braude Award for light verse in 1989.

Scope and Content

The Michael Braude collection includes manuscripts of verse, drama, and prose, including a number of short stories. It also includes correspondence, periodicals, and published works which relate to Mr. Braude’s literary career. Most of the manuscripts were written from the 1930s when he ran a car dealership until after his retirement in the 1980s. Much of the material is concerned with Jewish liberal themes. A great deal of this is satirical or humorous in nature.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Related Materials

There are no other known archival collections created by Michael Braude at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Lillian Braude gave her husband’s papers to the American Heritage Center in one installment in 1990. The papers were in good condition.

Processing Information

The collection was processed by John Hanks in January 2002.

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Michael Braude papers, 1928-1989, Collection Number 02252, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Access Terms American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Motion picture authorship. Literature and humor. Authors. Screenwriters. <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Performing Arts Literature Container List Series I. Biographical 1928-1989 0.30 cubic ft. (2/3 document box)

Obituaries and correspondence arranged chronologically.

1 1 Biographical – Obituaries, Clippings 1986-1987 1 2 Literary, Personal Correspondence 1930-1989 1 3 Michael Braude, Bill Braude (Brother), Family Letters 1928 1 4 Rejection Letters 1971-1985 Series II. Manuscripts, 1933-1934, undated

Humorous intellectual and historical material arranged alphabetically.

Sub-series 1. Drama, undated 1.95 cubic ft. (4 1/3 document boxes) 1 5-6 All Under One Roof undated 2 1 Body Count undated 2 2-4 The Coming Second Coming undated 2 5 The Cruise undated

(Comedy)

2 6 Death and Resurrection on Flight #17 undated 2 7 The Eye Glasses undated 2 8 The Four Sons undated 3 1-2 The Four Sons undated 3 3-6 The Game That Has No Name undated 4 1 Gettysburg undated

(Proof)

4 2 The Maid’s Role undated 4 3 On the Quay undated 4 4 The Perpetual No Motion Machine undated 4 5 A Postcript to the Hagadah undated 4 6 Preface to an Unwritten Play undated 4 7 Religious Whirl - Temple Group undated 4 8 The Same Room undated 4 9 Three Plays undated 5 1-2 Various undated Sub-series 2. Prose, 1933-1934, undated 4.05 cubic ft. (9 document boxes) 5 3 Add-a-Letter undated 5 4 Art Exhibit with Ethyl Olenikow in Paris 1933 5 5 Autobiography – The Sequel, My Business Debut undated 6 1-3 Conversations in a Faculty Club undated 6 4 The Doctor’s Afternoon undated 6 5 East Hampton, N.Y. – Art Colony undated 6 6 Frederick Royston 1934 6 7 The French Impressionists undated 6 8 Germany and England between the Wars undated 6 9 I Knew Him Well – Autobiography undated 7 1-4 I Knew Him Well undated 7 5-6 A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future… undated 8 1-6 A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future… undated 9 1-6 A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future… undated 10 1-5 A Keyhole Glimpse into the Future… undated 11 1 On the Sidelines – Biography of Michael Braude undated 11 2 Overheard in the Faculty Dining Room undated 11 3-4 A Slight Matter of Unfinished Business undated 11 5 The Subway Ride undated 11 6 Sweets and Sours undated 12 1-5 Tales Out of School undated 12 6 Vonn Manstein undated 13 1-3 With Malice Toward All undated 13 4-5 Various undated 14 1-5 Various undated 15 1 Various - Partial undated Sub-series 3. Short Stories, undated 1.35 cubic ft. (3 document boxes) 15 2 Alias, Showcase undated 15 3 And Everyone Believeth undated 15 4 The Apotheosis that Misfired undated 15 5 Belated Second Thoughts undated 15 6 Bentzel undated 15 7 Children of Darkness undated 15 8 Come the Revolution or Echoes of a Distant Past undated 15 9 Diet-Rite Paleontology undated 15 10 Emancipation of the Male Sex undated 15 11 The Environment undated 15 12 The Facts of Death undated 15 13 The Family after Ratification of E.R.A. undated 15 14 Family Secrets undated 15 15 A Footnote to Gulag undated 15 16 The Forebear, The Maranno Forebear undated 15 17 The Founder undated 15 18 The Gaon of Vilna and My Family undated 15 19 The Glorious End of Cynthia Montague undated 15 20 The Golden Age of Unproductivity undated 15 21 Good and Evil undated 15 22 The Grandson or The Fourth Act undated 15 23 Hamlet Rewritten undated 16 1 Hezekiah P. Denham undated 16 2 Hillel and Shamai – Unidentical Twins undated 16 3 How I Became a Grass Orphan undated 16 4 In the Wake of the Golden Age undated 16 5 Inside the Oval Office undated 16 6 Mice, Men, and City Planners undated 16 7 My Grandmother undated 16 8 New Auschwitz, Kansas undated 16 9 The Nobel Prize undated 16 10 The Reconciliation undated 16 11 Statecraft undated 16 12 Three Jewish People undated 16 13 A Tryptych of Fables undated 16 14 The Unbitten Bullet undated 16 15 Untouchable or Statecraft in India undated 16 16 Utopia – Its Decline and Fall undated 16 17 Viva – La France undated 16 18 1917 And All That undated 17 1 1918 And All That undated 17 2 Untitled undated 17 3-4 Various undated Sub-series 4. Verse, undated 3 cubic ft. (6.5 document boxes) 17 5 A Bestiary undated 17 6 A Bestiary undated

(Copies of Illustrations)

17 7 A Fishtiary undated 17 8 All Things Considered, A Matter of Identity, Places undated 17 9 Apocrypha undated 18 1 Apocrypha undated 18 2 Around No Corner undated 18 3-6 Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker undated 19 1-3 Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker undated 19 4 Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker undated

(Correspondence)

19 5 Death undated 19 6 Early Verse undated 19 7 Eastern Long Island undated 19 8 Footnotes to Karl Marx undated 20 1-2 Ford, Ford, Ford and Others-A Random Who’s Who undated 20 3 Ford Maddox Ford and Others undated 20 4 Inter Alia-A Random Who’s Who undated 20 5 The Little Ones undated 20 6 My 187th Birthday Party or Paradise Twice Lost undated 20 7 Noah’s Ark undated 21 1-2 Not to Grim a Reaper undated 21 3 Notes undated 21 4 Resolve undated 21 5 The Syntax of Vision undated 21 6-7 A Touch of Irreverence undated 22 1 Variations on Two Themes undated 22 2 Variations on Three Themes undated 22 3 Village Briefs undated 22 4-5 With a Grandson at the Zoo undated 22 6-7 The Zoo-Illogical Garden undated 23 1 The Zoo-Illogical World undated 23 2-4 Various undated Series III. Periodicals, 1946-1984 0.45 cubic ft. (1 document box)

Contains verse by Michael Braude. Arranged alphabetically.

23 5 Bird Effort, Chicago Review, Chicago Today 1967-1978 24 1 Christian Century, Commentary, Jewish Frontier, The Hamptons, Harpers, Liberal Judaism 1947-1982 24 2-3 Midstream 1977-1979, 1982-1984 24 4 Partisan Review #4, Reconstructionist, Saturday Review, Shenandoah 1974-1981 Series IV. Books, 1963-1987 0.30 cubic ft. (2/3 document box)

Arranged alphabetically.

25 1 Butcher, Baker, Epigram Maker 1984 25 2 The First 30 Odd Years 1976 25 3 My 187th Birthday Party 1987 25 4 A Question of Identity 1976 25 5 Who’s Zoo 1963 Series V. Subject Files, 1968-1987 0.15 cubic ft. (1/3 document box)

The Braude Award, Quadrangle Books, and reviews are arranged alphabetically.

25 6 Braud Award – Light Verse Award 1987 25 7 Quadrangle Books 1987 25 8 Reviews and Publicity 1968-1985