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Hills mss., 1954-1996

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Hills, L. Rust.

Title
Hills mss., 1954-1996

Collection No.
LMC 2305

Extent
ca. 3000 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Hills mss., 1954-1996, consist of the papers of editor and author L. Rust Hills, 1924- .

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Hills was fiction editor for Esquire magazine from 1956-1963. While there he arranged a series of symposiums on "The Role of the Writer in America." He continued as a fiction editor with Saturday Evening Post (1963-1965) and then Audience magazine (1969-1972). He returned to Esquire as the book review columnist in 1973 and in 1977 became fiction editor there once again. He has also taught writing or literature at Carlton College, Columbia University, New School for Social Research, New York University, and University of Maryland Overseas Program. He has written several books and edited anthologies of writings from Esquire and Saturday Evening Post.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Authors; III. Books; IV. Magazines; V. Symposia, etc.; VI. Miscellaneous; VII. Audio Tapes.

Scope and Content Note

The correspondence, mostly concerning articles and short stories submitted to Hills for inclusion in the various magazines, is arranged in chronological order. Correspondents include: John Barth, Saul Bellow, Thomas Louis Berger, Vance Nye Bourjaily, Kay Boyle, R.V. Cassill, John Cheever, Stanley Lawrence Elkin, George Paul Elliott, Paul Hamilton Engle, Frederick Exley, Leslie Aaron Fiedler, Herbert Gold, Mark Harris, William Humphrey, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, Jay Neugeboren, Philip Roth, James Salter, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Harvey Swados, John Hoyer Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Williams, and Richard Yates. Authors' files include submitted short stories and articles. Some are accompanied by comments from Hills and other readers as to their suitability for publication. Materials covering his time at Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, and Audience include inter-office memos, production materials, and some of Hills own articles and columns. Files concerning symposiums or writing programs include brochures, press releases, correspondence with local arrangements persons, programs, bills and related clippings. 44 audio tapes, mostly recordings of the symposiums, complete the collection.

Note on Indexing Term - "Publishers and publishing": The collection includes correspondence between Hills and various authors trying to have their work published in Esquire and the other magazine with which Hills was involved.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Purchase. Key West Island Books. Key West, FL 33040. 1995
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Hills mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing Information
Processed by staff.

Series: Box 1 I. Correspondence 1954-1996. 

Arranged in chronological order. The correspondence mostly concerns articles and short stories submitted to Hills for inclusion in the various magazines. Significant correspondents have been indexed below.

  • View All (796)
  • Albee, Edward, 1928-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963 (appended to Hills to Albee, Feb. 26, 1963)
  • 1964, Oct. 7
  • Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981
  • To Farbar, Bernard
  • 1964, Nov. 6
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1961, Aug. 10; Sept. 28; Oct. 13; Oct.; Dec. 4
  • 1965, Mar. 25
  • Auchincloss, Louis Stanton, 1917-
  • To Hills, L. Rust 1964, Mar. 2; Apr. 13
  • 1978, Jan. 16
  • Baker, Russell, 1925-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1985, Feb. 24; Oct. 22
  • Baldwin, Faith, 1893-1978
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Feb. 6
  • Banks, Russell, 1940-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1986, Apr. 1
  • 1993, Feb. 27; Apr. 22 (postcard)
  • Barker, Dudley, 1910-1980
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1962, Mar. 19, 27; Nov. 12, 27
  • Barth, John, 1930-
  • To Hills, L. Rust 1958, Jan. 25; Feb. 12, 26; Nov. 14 (postcard)
  • 1961, Feb. 14; Oct. 10
  • 1962, Mar. 28; May 10; June 5, 14
  • 1969, Apr. 29
  • 1973, Nov. 6, 28
  • 1974, Jan. 2, 2 (sec'y signed - enclosure), 21
  • 1978, Oct. 17; Nov. 7
  • 1986, Mar. 11
  • 1995, Feb. 14
  • n.d.
  • Barthelme, Donald, 1931-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1971, June 21 1973, Nov. (enclosure); 1973
  • Barzun, Jacques Martin, 1907-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1958, Apr. 8; Oct. 27
  • 1963, Apr. 25 (per sec'y)
  • Bass, Rick, 1958-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1986, Sept. 6, 10
  • 1987, Sept. 13
  • 1989, Apr. 10, 24
  • Bellow, Saul, 1915-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1958, Sept. 20; Oct. 23 (telegram)
  • 1964 (2)
  • 1965, Apr. 4
  • 1969, Apr. 30
  • 1971, May 25
  • 1973, Nov. (appended to Hills to Bellow, Oct. 15, 1973)
  • 1978, June 1 (per sec'y)
  • 1984, July 14
  • n.d.
  • Berger, Thomas Louis, 1924-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, Feb. 27; June 3; Aug. 21; Sept. 7
  • 1961, Jan. 13
  • 1964, June 15
  • 1965, Mar. 29
  • 1969, May 5
  • 1971, Apr. 15; June 14; July 23
  • 1972, Nov. 2
  • Blixen, Karen, 1885-1962
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, July 9
  • Blount, Roy
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d. (2)
  • Bourjaily, Vance Nye, 1922-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1961, Oct. 3, 31; Dec. 1
  • 1964, Feb. 4; Mar. 7, 31; May 13; Sept. 28
  • 1971, Sept. 24
  • 1979, July 17
  • 1980, Mar. 12
  • 1982, Aug. 10
  • Boyle, Kay, 1903-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Feb. 22; Mar. 7, 14
  • 1964, Oct. 2
  • 1965, Mar. 18; Apr. 5, 13
  • 1970, Oct. 7
  • 1973, Oct. 26
  • Boyle, T. Coraghessan
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1979, Sept. 7
  • n.d. (8 - one copy)
  • Bradbury, Ray Douglas, 1920-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1965, Mar. 26
  • Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-
  • Hills, L. Rust
  • 1986, Mar. 29; May 20
  • Brodkey, Harold
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Feb. 3
  • 1986, Mar. 13
  • Buckley, Christopher, 1948-
  • To Felker, Clay S.
  • 1979
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1979, Oct. 25, 31
  • 1986, Mar. 6
  • 1993, Apr. 2
  • To Williams, Joy
  • 1979, Nov. 8
  • Calisher, Hortense, 1911-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964,Sept. 28
  • 1973, Oct. 28; Dec. 16
  • Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1958, July 5
  • To Roth, Paul
  • 1958, July 1 (telegram)
  • Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, May 24; Dec. 29
  • 1973, Dec. 15
  • Capouya, Emile
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1980, Oct. 21
  • Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1981, June 18; July 10
  • 1982, Aug. 11; Dec. 31
  • To Weber, Bruce
  • 1982, July 24
  • Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, Mar. 13
  • 1962, Feb. 1
  • 1966, Dec. 17
  • 1967, Jan. 5; June 11
  • 1973, Oct.; Nov. 18; Dec. 4
  • 1979, July 22
  • n.d. (2 - one copy)
  • Cheever, John, 1912-1982
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d. (12)
  • Clark, Walter van Tilburg, 1909-1971
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Feb. 2, 15
  • 1964, Oct. 9
  • 1965, Apr. 10
  • n.d. (2)
  • Connell, Evan Shelby, 1924-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Apr. 26 (postcard); May 9; Sept. 22, 23
  • 1965, Jan. 21
  • n.d. (11)
  • Coover, Robert, 1932-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1969, Mar. 19; Apr. 29
  • 1971, June 28
  • Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Jan. 2; Apr. 1; May 29
  • 1968, May 23 (postcard)
  • Crews, Harry, 1935-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d.
  • Delillo, Don
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d. (2)
  • DeVries, Peter, 1910-1993
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Mar. 6; Sept. 19
  • Dickey, James, 1923-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1986, Apr. 16
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Ms. Johnson
  • 1979, May 15
  • Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence, 1931-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1983, Nov. 15
  • Donleavy, J. P. (James Patrick), 1926-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 23
  • 1965, May 31
  • 1986, Feb. 26; Mar. 13
  • Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1965, Apr. 4
  • Elkin, Stanley Lawrence, 1930-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Feb. 16
  • 1964, Feb. 7, 29; Apr. 11; Oct. 30; Nov. 13
  • 1965, May 13; Oct. 1
  • 1973, Oct. 29; Nov. 19; Dec. 3
  • 1980, Nov. 3
  • Elliott, George Paul, 1918-1980
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, Feb. 16
  • 1958, Oct. 3
  • 1962, Jan. 31 (postcard)
  • 1964, Mar. 6
  • 1971, June 22
  • 1973, Oct. 26; Nov. 21
  • 1979, June 1 (postcard)
  • Engle, Paul Hamilton, 1908-1991
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1959, Sept. 15, 16, 19, 21; Nov. 14; Dec. 25
  • 1960, Apr. 23
  • 1962, May 15
  • 1963, Aug. 14
  • n.d.
  • To Lichtenstein, Eugene
  • 1959, June 16; July 28; Oct. 17, 18, 21, 25
  • Exley, Frederick
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, May 8
  • 1980, Dec. 15
  • 1981, May 11
  • 1982, Feb. 14 (enclosures)
  • 1986, Feb. 28
  • n.d. (2)
  • To Williams, Joy
  • 1980, Dec. 1
  • Fairbairn, Douglas, 1926-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1972, Oct. 22
  • 1973, Dec. 21 (enclosures)
  • 1976, Jan.; May 4
  • 1979, Feb. 19; June 19
  • Farrell, James Thomas, 1904-1979
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1968, Mar. 17
  • Faust, Irvin, 1924-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, Sept. 3
  • Fiedler, Leslie Aaron, 1917-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1958, May 12; Aug. 27; Sept. 18; Oct. 2, 8 (telegram), 22
  • 1961, Dec. 24
  • 1964, Feb. 7; Sept. 30
  • 1969, May 12
  • 1971, Sept. 8
  • 1978, Jan. 31; Feb. 10 (enclosure)
  • 1979, May 16
  • 1980, Sept. 17
  • Ford, Richard, 1944-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1980, Nov. 25
  • 1981, Jan. 13
  • 1983, Mar. 10; Oct. 18
  • 1986, Jan. 30; Mar. 4
  • 1993, Feb. 26 (postcard)
  • 1994, June 27; Dec. 15 (postcard)
  • 1995, Jan. 26
  • n.d. (2)
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Joy Williams
  • 1982, Feb. 12
  • 1983, Jan. 12
  • Fowles, John, 1926-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1965, Sept. 6
  • Friedman, Bruce Jay, 1930-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, May 11 1973, Nov. 10 (enclosure), 23
  • 1979, June 12
  • 1983, Oct. 11, 19
  • 1985, Feb. 6; Mar. 13;
  • 1988, Mar. 7
  • 1990, Oct. 24
  • n.d.
  • Gaddis, William, 1922-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 23
  • 1965, Aug. 14
  • 1986, Mar. 12 (postcard); May 5
  • n.d. (postcard)
  • Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-
  • To Felker, Clay
  • 1978, Nov. 28
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1962, Feb. 6
  • Gibson, William, 1948-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Mar. 16
  • Gold, Herbert, 1924-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Oct. 3 (appended to Gold to James Oliver Brown, Oct. 3, 1964)
  • 1969, Sept. (postcard)
  • 1973, Oct. 29 (enclosure)
  • 1978, Feb. 17
  • 1979, Aug. 4
  • n.d. (5)
  • Golding, William Gerald, 1911-1993
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1962, Nov. 5
  • n.d.
  • Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 24
  • n.d. (2)
  • To McDowell, David
  • 1964, Nov.
  • Goyen, William, 1915-1983
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Oct. 30
  • 1978, Nov. 20
  • 1979, July 3; Oct. 21
  • Hall, Donald, 1928-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 21; Oct. 28
  • 1985, July 24 (postcard)
  • n.d.
  • Hall, Oakley Maxwell, 1920-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1958, Sept. 1
  • 1985, July 15
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Joy Williams
  • 1979, May 7
  • 1984, May 24
  • Harris, Mark, 1922-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, May 15; June 15
  • 1958, Nov. 11
  • 1959, Jan. 7; Feb. 4, 12, 17, 27; Mar. 13; June 18; Aug. 24; Nov. 17; Dec. 13
  • 1964, Sept. 24
  • 1968, Mar. 22 (enclosure)
  • 1978, Feb. 4; May 2; Dec. 19
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Gene Lichtenstein
  • 1959, Nov. 24
  • Harrison, James, 1937-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, Sept.
  • 1982
  • 1986, Mar. 10
  • n.d. (2)
  • Hawkes, John Clendennin Burne, 1925-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1973, Oct. 27
  • 1980, Mar. 15
  • 1982, Mar. 22; May 2
  • Heller, Joseph, 1923-
  • To Blythe, William Legette
  • n.d.
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1974, July 18
  • 1986, Feb. 24
  • n.d.
  • Herbst, Josephine, 1892-1969
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Apr. 9
  • Hersey, John Richard, 1914-1993
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 27
  • 1986, Aug. 22
  • Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, July 25 (enclosure)
  • 1963, Apr. 12
  • 1964, Dec. 20
  • Hoagland, Edward, 1932-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Mar. 16; June 30
  • 1968, Mar. 14 (postcard)
  • 1969, Mar. 7
  • Houston, James D., 1933-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, Jan. 24
  • Howland, Bette
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1969, June 19
  • Humphrey, William
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1959, Nov. 25
  • 1963, Oct. 12
  • 1964, Feb. 1, 6; Apr. 3; May 2; June 13; July 24; Aug. 2; Sept. 26; Oct. 21; Nov. 23; Dec. 10, 21, 24
  • 1965, Mar. 20; Apr. 19; May 10; June 22; July 5; Aug. 19; Oct. 18
  • 1968, Mar. 17
  • 1969, Aug. 12
  • 1973, May 31; Aug. 4
  • 1986, Feb. 24
  • 1988, May 22
  • To McDonnell, Terry
  • 1990, Oct. 2
  • Inge, William
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1965, Aug. 24
  • Irving, John, 1942-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1980, Sept. 18; Oct. 20 (postcard)
  • 1993, Nov. 15
  • Jackson, Shirley, 1919-1965
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Oct. 14
  • Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964 (2)
  • Jones, James, 1921-1977
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, June 3, 25; Aug. 23
  • 1964, Sept. 30
  • 1969, Oct. 24 (enclosure)
  • 1973, Nov. 24
  • 1974, Jan. 22 (enclosure); June 23
  • Kaufman, George Simon, 1889-1961
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d.
  • Kazan, Elia, 1909-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1979, May 31
  • To Lichtenstein, Gene
  • 1959, Aug. 12
  • Kennedy, William, 1928-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1969, Apr. 26
  • Kesey, Ken Elton, 1935-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1984, Jan. 13
  • 1985, Jan. 9
  • Knowles, John, 1926-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, July 12; Sept. 30
  • 1984, Apr. 25
  • 1986, June 4
  • 1987, June 5
  • 1990, Mar. 9
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Joy Williams
  • 1986, Feb. 26
  • Kumin, Maxine (Winokur), 1925-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1971, Sept. 16; Nov. 10 (postcard)
  • 1973, Aug. 7
  • Leonard, Elmore, 1925-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1986, Feb. 27
  • Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1961, Jan. 7 (postcard)
  • Lurie, Alison
  • To Johnson, Marilyn
  • 1979, May 16
  • McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1973, Nov. 6
  • MacDonald, John D. (John Dann), 1916-1986
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, Aug. 23
  • McGuane, Thomas
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, Apr.1; July 27; Sept. 21
  • 1983, July 13
  • McInerney, Jay
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1989, Feb. 24
  • MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
  • To Engle, Paul
  • 1959, June 10
  • Mailer, Norman, 1923-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1968, Mar. 19; May 6
  • 1973, Nov. 19; Dec. 9 (enclosure)
  • 1979, Aug. 20; Nov. 5
  • 1985, Oct. 14
  • 1988, Aug. 25
  • To Lichtenstein, Gene
  • 1959, Nov. 10
  • Malamud, Bernard, 1914-1986
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1962, Jan. 17; Feb. 2; June 7
  • 1963, Mar. 2, 15 (enclosure); Apr. 12, 16, 22
  • 1964, Mar. 3
  • 1969, Feb. 17
  • 1973, Oct. 29; Dec. 3
  • To Brown, Robert
  • 1962, June 25
  • Marquand, John Phillips, 1893-1960
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Mar. 16; Dec. 31
  • 1965, Apr. 18
  • Michaels, Leonard, 1933-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, July 10
  • 1979, Oct.8
  • 1980, May 28; Aug. 24; Aug.
  • n.d. (3)
  • Miller, Arthur, 1915-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Mar. 9; Sept. 28 (postcard)
  • 1973, Oct. 24; Nov. 25 (sec'y signed)
  • 1978, Feb. 24; May 30
  • Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1969, Feb. 8
  • Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1961, July 2
  • Morris, Willie, 1934-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1985, Nov. 28
  • 1986, Mar. 5 (postcard)
  • 1990, Oct. 9
  • Morris, Wright, 1910-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1958, Oct. 25 (postcard)
  • 1969, Mar. 25
  • 1971, July 2 (postcard)
  • n.d. (4)
  • Nemerov, Howard, 1920-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 24
  • n.d.
  • Neugeboren, Jay, 1938-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1969, Oct. 9
  • 1972, Oct. 30
  • 1974, Feb. 10; May 13
  • 1978, Mar. 30 ; June 5; July 14; Aug. 9
  • 1987, Mar. 27
  • Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1984, July 25
  • 1986, Feb. 22 (postcard); Mar. 2, 10 (postcard)
  • 1990, June 26; July 12
  • O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
  • To Blythe, Will
  • 1989, Feb. 18
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1980, Oct. 5; Dec. 19
  • 1987, May 28
  • 1992, June 30
  • 1996, Mar. 12
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Joy Williams
  • 1986, Sept. 23
  • O'Hara, John, 1905-1970
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, June 4, 19
  • Ozick, Cynthia, 1928-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1985, July 15
  • 1986, Mar. 12; Apr. 1
  • 1987, May 29
  • n.d.
  • Paley, Grace
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1973
  • Parker, Dorothy (Rothschild), 1893-1967
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d.
  • Percy, Walker, 1916-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1965, Mar. 31
  • Podhoretz, Norman
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Apr. 11
  • Powers, James Farl, 1917-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1959, Oct. 21
  • 1961, July 24; Aug. 21 (enclosure), 22 1962, Jan. 22
  • 1964, Sept. 21
  • 1970, Oct. 11
  • 1973, Nov. 7
  • Price, Reynolds, 1933-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 29
  • 1973, Oct. 27; Dec. 9; Dec.
  • 1974, Jan. 2 (enclosure)
  • 1983, Nov. 2
  • Proulx, Annie
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1987, Mar. 23 (enclosure)
  • Purdy, James, 1923-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1973, Oct. 27; Nov. 8 (enclosure), 15, 16
  • Puzo, Mario, 1920-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d.
  • Pynchon, Thomas
  • To Donadio, Candida
  • 1964, Oct. 28
  • Ravenel, Shannon, 1938-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1979, June 4
  • 1987, May 27
  • Richard, Mark, 1955-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1992,June 11 (postcard)
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Joy Williams
  • n.d.
  • Roth, Philip, 1933-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, May 3, 26; July 31; Aug. 19; Oct. 1, 14
  • 1969, May 6 1973, Aug. 22; Sept. 22 (postcard); Nov. 16; Dec. 3 (enclosure)
  • 1977, Dec. 5
  • 1978, Apr. 1 (appended to Hills to Roth, Mar. 1978)
  • 1984, July 24
  • 1985, July 15
  • n.d. (2); n.d. (appended to Hills to Roth, n.d.)
  • Rudd, Hughes, 1921-1992
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, Mar. 26
  • 1978, Feb. 15
  • Salter, James
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1979, July 11
  • 1989, Jan. 13; Feb. 2; Mar. 6 (postcard); June 24
  • 1990, Apr. 2, 6; June 11
  • 1992, Sept. 17 (postcard)
  • 1994, Sept. 30 (postcard); Nov. 9; Dec. (postcard)
  • n.d. (22)
  • To Hills, L. Rust and Joy Williams
  • 1983, Dec. 25 (postcard)
  • 1994, Aug. 20
  • To Jenks, Tom
  • n.d.
  • Sanchez, Thomas
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1983, Mar. 12; Aug. 18, 21, 27; Dec. 1
  • 1985, Apr. 20 1986, Oct. 6
  • Saroyan, William, 1908-1981
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1965, June 7
  • Schorer, Mark, 1908-1977
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, June 11
  • 1960, June 4; July 19; Aug. 1; Sept. 1, 23, 26; Oct. 3
  • 1964, Sept. 22
  • Seager, Allan, 1906-1968
  • To Gingrich, Arnold
  • 1961, May 12
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, Apr. 6
  • 1959, Oct. 9
  • 1961, July 31; Aug. 11
  • 1964, Sept. 30
  • To Newman, Dave
  • 1961, Aug. 18, 22; Sept. 8, 26
  • Shacochis, Bob
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1983, Sept. 23
  • 1985, Feb. 12; Mar. 28; Apr. 1
  • Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963, May 27; Apr. 23 (telegram)
  • 1964, May 18
  • 1965, Mar. 31
  • 1970, Sept. 29
  • 1978, Sept. 17
  • 1983, July 16 (photocopy)
  • Simon, Neil
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • n.d.
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 20
  • Southern, Terry
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1973, Nov. 12
  • 1974, Apr. 29
  • 1977, Dec. 14 (enclosure)
  • 1978, Feb. 29 (enclosures)
  • Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Apr. 24; May 12; July 17, 27; Sept. 19
  • 1965, Feb. 8
  • Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-1993
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, May 12; June 9; July 17 (enclosure); Aug. 4; Oct. 1, 27
  • Steinbeck, John Ernst, 1902-1968
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, Sept. 30
  • Stern, Richard G., 1928-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, July 15
  • 1985, Feb. 15
  • n.d. (3)
  • Styron, William, 1925-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1961, June 29 (postcard)
  • 1964, May 27 (postcard)
  • 1971, Apr. 10 (postcard); June 20 (postcard)
  • 1976, Jan. 21
  • 1978, Aug. 1; Oct. 2, 15; Oct. (3); (all postcards)
  • 1985, July 1
  • 1986
  • 1988, July 21
  • n.d.
  • Swados, Harvey, 1920-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, Jan. 5
  • 1961, Oct. 18
  • 1963, Apr. 13 (postcard)
  • 1964, Mar. 5; May 11
  • 1967, Feb. 11
  • Swarthout, Glendon Fred, 1918-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1959, Aug. 22
  • 1990, Aug. 14
  • Talese, Gay
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1970, May 20
  • 1979, June 16 (postcard)
  • 1993, Aug. 7; Sept. 17 (postcard)
  • Theroux, Alexander Louis, 1939-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1973, July 29
  • 1979, Mar. 4
  • Theroux, Paul, 1941-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, Jan. 4 (postcard)
  • Updike, John Hoyer, 1932-
  • To Eisenberg, Lee
  • n.d.
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1978, Jan. 7
  • 1985, Feb. 20 (postcard)
  • 1986, Mar. 6 (postcard); Sept. 13
  • 1994, Dec. 3 (postcard)
  • n.d. (11); n.d. (enclosure - appended to Hills to Updike)
  • Vidal, Gore, 1925-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964 (postcard)
  • n.d. (3)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1964, May 25; Sept. 18
  • 1965, Mar. 24; Sept. 29
  • 1966, Nov. 5
  • 1972, Aug. 1
  • 1983, Aug. 8, 24
  • Wald, Jerry, 1912-1962
  • To Gingrich, Arnold
  • 1960, Sept. 23 (telegram)
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1960, Oct. 6, 18, 25
  • Ward, Andrew, 1946-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1971, June 26
  • 1975, Apr. 9
  • 1985, Mar. 30
  • Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1962, Mar. 8; July 3; Dec. 10
  • 1963, Apr. 26
  • 1964, Sept. 20
  • To Newman, Dave 1961, July 29
  • Welty, Eudora, 1909-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1974, Jan. 13
  • Wescott, Glenway, 1901-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1963 June 22
  • 1964, Sept. 23
  • 1965, Apr. 24
  • Williams, Joan, 1928-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1977, Dec. 13
  • 1978, Jan. 4
  • 1994, Jan. 10
  • n.d.
  • Williams, Thomas, 1926-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, Oct. 16
  • 1963, May 4, 16
  • 1964, Apr. 3
  • 1971, June 4
  • 1973, Oct. 30; Dec. 11 (enclosures)
  • 1974, Aug. 9; Sept. 1
  • 1978, Sept. 5
  • 1986, Feb. 28; Mar. 17
  • Wilner, Herbert, 1925-1977
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, Nov. 14
  • 1959, Sept. 28
  • 1964, Mar. 26
  • 1965, May 29
  • 1967, Mar. 4 (enclosures)
  • Wolfe, Tom
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1984, Aug. 27
  • n.d.
  • Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1979, May 28
  • 1994, Sept. 2
  • Yates, Richard, 1926-
  • 1961, Feb. 25
  • 1964, July 12
  • 1965, Sept. 2
  • 1970, Oct. 28
  • 1973, Nov. 11, 29 (enclosure)
  • 1974, Jan. 18
  • Young, Marguerite, 1908-1995
  • To Hills, L. Rust
  • 1957, June 11

Series: Box 2 II. Authors

Arranged alphabetically by author. Contains short stories and articles submitted to Hills and some notes concerning them.

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  • Apple, Max. "Stepdaughters"
  • Baldwin, James. "The man child"
  • Barth, John. "Ambrose his mark"
  • Capote, Truman. "Dazzle"
  • Caputo, Philip. "Styron's choices"
  • Carver, Raymond. "Where he was: Memories of my father"
  • Cheever, John. "The fourth alarm"
  • Exley, Frederick. "The time I shot my sister"
  • Harris, Mark. "Ida Mae Low"
  • Harrison, James. "Legends of the fall"
  • Kazin, Alfred. "re: Maureen Howard & fiction from China"
  • Malamud, Bernard. "A lost grave"
  • Michaels, Leonard. "The men's club"
  • Miller, Arthur. "White puppies"
  • Mooney, Ted. "The salt wife"
  • Salter, James. "Geese"
  • Southern, Terry. "A hustle not wholly devoid…"
  • Spencer, Elizabeth. "A college education."
  • Stone, Robert. "Not for love"
  • Styron, William. "Shadrach"
  • Styron, William. "Sophie's choice"
  • Updike, John Hoyer. "The lucid eye in Silver Town"
  • Wolff, Tobias. "re: Raymond Carver"
  • Yates, Richard. "The right"

Series: III. Books Box 2

Includes materials relating to books edited by Hills: Armchair Esquire; Great Esquire fiction: The finest stories from the first fifty years (2 folders); and, Writer's Choice (2 folders)


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IV. Magazines

Hills's files for Audience, Esquire, and Saturday Evening Post . Includes interoffice memos, production materials, Hills's columns and articles, etc. (25 folders)


Series: Box 3 V. Symposia, etc.

Includes: brochures, press releases, correspondence with local arrangements persons, photographs, programs, bills, printed ads and related clippings


Associated Writing Programs

Esquire symposia:

1958, Oct. 9-10.  Columbia University

1959, Dec. 4-5.  Iowa University (2 folders)

1960, Oct. 20-22.  San Francisco

1961, Oct. 27-28.  University of Michigan (2 folders)

1963, Apr. 19-20.  Princeton University (2 folders)

Radio broadcast

New York City Writer's Conference. 1961, July 11-21 

Series: Box 4 VI. Miscellaneous

Includes several magazines with articles by or about Hills


Series: VII. Audio Tapes

BADLY DETERIORATED. CONSULT CURATOR OF MANUSCRIPTS BEFORE PLAYING.


Tapes:
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  • 1-7. Esquire Symposium at Columbia, Oct. 17, 1958 (4 reels of First Session and 3 reels of Second Session)
  • 8-14. Esquire Symposium at Columbia. "Transcription made here in office of original Columbia Symposium tapes, which were sent to Winkler for his broadcast" (7 reels in unmarked white boxes)
  • 15-23. Esquire Symposium at Iowa, Dec. 4-5, 1959 (9 reels)
  • 24-27. Baldwin [James Baldwin at Esquire Symposium in San Francisco, Oct. 20-22, 1960?] (4 reels)
  • 28-30. Esquire Symposium at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct. 27-28, 1961 (3 reels)
  • 31. Esquire Symposium at Ann Arbor, Michigan, marked: "Writer's Conference luncheon - Univ. of Mich. Saturday noon 10/28/61"
  • 32-35. Esquire Symposium at Ann Arbor, Michigan?? (4 reels. Note: "tapes of Ann Arbor symposium returned to AG by Voices people in Michigan")
  • 36. Esquire Symposium, L. Murray - Arnold Gingrich interview, radio station at time of Ann Arbor symposium [Oct, 1961]
  • 37-38. Esquire Symposium, at Princeton, Apr. 19-20, 1963, marked: "Response - Murray - Prose II, Saturday 3:30 PM - Arnold Gingrich, Warren, Malamud, Albee" (2 reels)
  • 39-42. Esquire Symposium at Princeton, marked: "Response, Friday night, 19 Apr. 1963..." (4 reels)
  • 43. Sealed tape marked: "Tape of Arnold Gingrich interview" Postmarked Dec. 20, 1961
  • 44. Unmarked tape in yellow Kodavox box

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