Collection Dates: Undated
2 linear
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This document describes a collection of materials
held by the
Special
Collections Department
University of Iowa
Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa
52242-1420
Phone:
319-335-5921
Fax:
319-335-5900
e-mail:
lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Posted to Internet: December 2003
Acquisition
Note: Gift of George Stimpson and of Gladys Stimpson Bader.
Access and
Restrictions:
Digital
Surrogates: Except where indicated,
this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and
objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in
the Special Collections Department.
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Unpublished Materials"
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Biographical
Note
George Stimpson was born in Jones County, Iowa, near Anamosa on November 3, 1896. He attended school at Valparaiso University, from which he graduated in 1921. In 1922 he worked on the Valparaiso Messenger before moving to Washington, where he became a correspondent for several newspapers, including the Cedar Rapids Gazette and the Houston, Texas, Chronicle. He worked for a while at the Washington Herald.
He was the author of a syndicated column "Information Roundup," and became an expert on Shakespeare and the Bible, as well as American history and politics. He was also an associate editor of the weekly magazine Pathfinder. He was elected president of the National Press Club in 1935.
He wrote ten informational books. He intended to write a trilogy of books about America comprised of A Book About American History, A Book About American Politics, and A Book About American Government. He was working on this last book in September 1952 when he died at the age of fifty-five. He had been in poor health with a bad heart and diabetes and had been virtually blind for about a year at the time of his death
Jacque Roethler, December 2003Scope and Content
This collection consists of manuscripts for four of his books.
Related materials
Who's
Box
List
A Book about American History
Typescript -- preface and scattered pages -- printer's copy
Typescript -- front and back materials
Typescript -- final draft with revisions
Typescript -- style sheets and instructions to the manufacturing department
Page Proofs (2 folders)
A Book About American Politics
Typescript -- with revisions (2 folders)
Typescript -- with revisions (2 folders)
Typescript -- subject captions
Typescript -- index, style sheet, and hand printed layout of front material
Typescript -- printer's copy with corrections
Typescript -- printer's copy with corrections (4 folders)
Box 2
A Book About American Politics , cont.
Typescript -- printer's copy with corrections (2 folders)
A Book About a Thousand Things
Typescript -- printer's copy with corrections (2 folders)
Typescript -- printer's copy with corrections (2 folders)
Box 3
A Book About a Thousand Things, cont.
Typescript -- printer's copy with corrections (1 folder)
Information Roundup
Typescript -- with revisions
Typescript -- printer's copy with revisions
Typescript -- printer's copy with revisions (4 folders)
