Collection Guide
This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special Collections DepartmentUniversity of Iowa Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Guide Contents
Biographical and Historical Information
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Administrative Information
Access and
Restrictions:
Biographical Note
The author and political scientist Eugene Burdick was born in 1918 in Sheldon, Iowa, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 4. Burdick attended Stanford University and Oxford University where he earned a Ph.D. degree in psychology. In 1956 his critically acclaimed novel The Ninth Wave was published and in 1958 his controversial bestseller The Ugly American appeared, which he co-authored with William J. Lederer. In the following years Burdick continued to publish books and articles, including the 1962 Fail-Safe, co-authored with Harvey Wheeler. In 1965 he died of a heart attack at the age of 46.
C. Pummer and J. Roethler
Scope and
Contents
This collection contains a typescript of Burdick's book The Blue of Capricorn and the serialized version of his story Fail-Safe that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1962.
Acquisition and Processing Information
The typescript of The Blue of Capricorn
was given to the University of Iowa Libraries by
Guide posted
to Internet:
Clippings
Essays
The Bitter Cost of Sweet Charity." Reprint
Manuscripts
The Blue of Capricorn
Carbon typescript (2 folders)
Fail-Safe
"Saturday Evening Post," serialized version -- October 1962
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