MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
4-17-2012
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 383. Transcripts, notes, and cassette tapes for interviews conducted by Dr. Wilford Fridy with individuals who knew or knew about John Wesley Venable, Jr., the person on whom Robert Penn Warren based the character Bolton Lovehart in his novella "Circus in the Attic." Interviews mention other people and places that Warren knew in Todd County, Kentucky. Also includes tapes of Robert Penn Warren giving a speech, reading some of his work, and an interview with Warren.
Disciplines
American Literature | American Studies | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (MSS 383)" (2012). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 2061.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/2061
Interview with Kent Greenwell
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu