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Article: HENRY ROTH PAPERS OPEN JUNE 14 TO ALL RESEARCHERS.
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- American Jewish History
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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Henry Roth, one of the most secretive writers in American literature, the author of Call it Sleep, Shifting Landscape, and the Mercy ora Rude Stream series, died in October 1995 at the age of 89. Compared in his silence to Salinger and Ellison, Henry Roth fascinated the literary public with his stunning talent and his amazing yet curious 60 years of silence from writer's block. His papers, many long assumed burned, currently are on long-term deposit at the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, Massachusetts and can be viewed by appointment only until they are relocated to New York City's Center for Jewish History in Spring 2000. The papers consist of 68 boxes ...
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Article: HENRY ROTH; WROTE FAMOUS NOVEL IN ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);
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...Henry Roth, who in 1934 wrote "Call It Sleep," a novel acclaimed as an American ... a longer autobiographical novel he called "Mercy of a Rude Stream." Henry Roth was born Feb. 8, 1906, in Tysmenica, Galicia, in what came to be ...
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