Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS SC SW

Scope and Content Note

This collection houses correspondence, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, scrapbook materials, typescripts, and galley proofs documenting Glendon Swarthout's literary career. Also included are screen plays for novels that were made into movies, including They Came to Cordura, Bless the Beasts and the Children, and The Shootist, (co-scripted with Miles Swarthout, Glendon Swarthout's son).

Boxes 18 through 22 house research materials and manuscripts showing the children's books that Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout co-authored.

Dates

Creation: 1942-1994

Creator

Swarthout, Glendon (Glendon Fred), 1918-1992 (Creator, Person)
Swarthout, Kathryn (Creator, Person)

Language of Materials

Material in English

Access Restrictions

To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Tuesday through Thursday, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.

Copyright

The Arizona Board of Regents retains copyright to this collection for and on behalf of Distinctive Collections, Arizona State University Library. Requests for permissions to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.

Biographical Note

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Glendon Swarthout (1918 April 8-1992 September 23) taught English at Michigan State University (1951-1959) and at Arizona State University (1959-1963). He began writing novels in the 1940's and continued until 1988. He earned numerous awards, including the playwriting Award, Theater Guild (1947); the Hopwood Award in fiction (1946); the O. Henry Prize for short stories (1960); the Gold Medal, National Society of Arts and Letters (1972); the Spur award for best western novel, Western Writers of America (1975); and the Western Writers of America Owen Wister Award (1991) given annually for writing or filmmaking about the American West.

Kathryn Swarthout (1919 January 8-) taught elementary school, worked as a columnist for Women's Day Magazine, and co-authored books for children with her husband. The couple sponsored an annual Swarthout Award, a cash prize in fiction and poetry, that is conferred through ASU's English Department. They had one child, Miles.

Full extent

36 Box(es)

Full extent

21 Linear Feet

Additional description

Abstract

Arrangement

This collection consists of thirty-six boxes divided into six series:

Series I: Novels
Series II: Short Stories
Series III: Scrapbooks
Series IV: Ephemera
Series V: Materials Held in the Columbia University Library
Series VI: Oversized Materials

Provenance

Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout donated these papers to Special Collections between 1971 and 1994 (Accession #2003-02898, 2003-02956, 2003-02960, 2003-02970, 2003-03006, 2003-03045, 2003-03046, 2003-03112, 2004-03188, 2004-03775, and 2004-03779).

Separated Materials

Over one hundred monographs have been removed from the collection and cataloged separately. They can be found by searching the catalog for local call numbers beginning in SPEC SW-.