"Writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)" Kerouac, Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, et al, 1960 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE – a group of five completed author surveys returned to James Sherlock, c. November 1960, comprising: BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012), typed manuscript signed ("Ray Bradbury"), three pages; JACKSON, Shirley (1916-1965), typed manuscript signed ("Shirley Jackson"), three pages; KEROUAC, Jack (1922-1969), autograph manuscript signed twice ("Jack Kerouac" and "Jack K."), three pages; MAILER, Norman (1923-2007), autograph note signed ("Norman Mailer"), one page; SERLING, Rod (1924-1975), autograph manuscript signed ("Rod Serling"), two pages. 13 pages total, 215 x 279mm; each survey with original author responses typed and in ink (occasional light soiling). "Writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)": Jack Kerouac and others candidly reply to a graduate student's survey on writing. James Sherlock was enrolled at City College in New York when he composed a two-page questionnaire that he mimeographed and distributed as part of "an original research project aimed at uncovering certain educational factors in the lives of successful writers." His goal was to "find out if the average successful writer considers his high school education in English a help or a hindrance in preparing him for his profession." The questions explored what they each enjoyed reading, their library borrowing habits, and the classes they thought were important (or not); Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson were all compelled to expound on the topic, each providing an extra paragraph on the verso of the survey, while Norman Mailer simply replied: "Dear Mr Sherlock I am sorry but I think it's better that the creative processes of writers continue to be a mystery. Norman Mailer." Amid the replies, Shirley Jackson cops to reading "fiction almost entirely," elaborating, "novels, preferably fantasy or even fairy tales," and credits "Grammar, thank God," while noting that composition was the least helpful. Jackson also discusses leaving college, describing how she embarked on her career and at the outset "conscientiously imitated other writers and them unimitated them." Ray Bradbury also mentions "science-fiction novels, short stories," along with Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. On the verso he types "Only by writing and throwing away hundreds of stories can one learn to write. […] High-school training if applied with zest and gusto, should throw the student out in the world ready to start writing…a story a week! No less than that!" Kerouac credits Emily Dickinson "who is probably great American poet I realize now," together with his Lowell High School English teacher Joseph Pyne. He notes emphatically, "High School crucial time to teach," before adding a post-script of sorts: "But writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)." James Sherlock submitted his paper based on the replies in January 1961. Provenance : James A. Sherlock, by descent to the consignor.
"Writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)" Kerouac, Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, et al, 1960 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE – a group of five completed author surveys returned to James Sherlock, c. November 1960, comprising: BRADBURY, Ray (1920-2012), typed manuscript signed ("Ray Bradbury"), three pages; JACKSON, Shirley (1916-1965), typed manuscript signed ("Shirley Jackson"), three pages; KEROUAC, Jack (1922-1969), autograph manuscript signed twice ("Jack Kerouac" and "Jack K."), three pages; MAILER, Norman (1923-2007), autograph note signed ("Norman Mailer"), one page; SERLING, Rod (1924-1975), autograph manuscript signed ("Rod Serling"), two pages. 13 pages total, 215 x 279mm; each survey with original author responses typed and in ink (occasional light soiling). "Writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)": Jack Kerouac and others candidly reply to a graduate student's survey on writing. James Sherlock was enrolled at City College in New York when he composed a two-page questionnaire that he mimeographed and distributed as part of "an original research project aimed at uncovering certain educational factors in the lives of successful writers." His goal was to "find out if the average successful writer considers his high school education in English a help or a hindrance in preparing him for his profession." The questions explored what they each enjoyed reading, their library borrowing habits, and the classes they thought were important (or not); Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson were all compelled to expound on the topic, each providing an extra paragraph on the verso of the survey, while Norman Mailer simply replied: "Dear Mr Sherlock I am sorry but I think it's better that the creative processes of writers continue to be a mystery. Norman Mailer." Amid the replies, Shirley Jackson cops to reading "fiction almost entirely," elaborating, "novels, preferably fantasy or even fairy tales," and credits "Grammar, thank God," while noting that composition was the least helpful. Jackson also discusses leaving college, describing how she embarked on her career and at the outset "conscientiously imitated other writers and them unimitated them." Ray Bradbury also mentions "science-fiction novels, short stories," along with Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. On the verso he types "Only by writing and throwing away hundreds of stories can one learn to write. […] High-school training if applied with zest and gusto, should throw the student out in the world ready to start writing…a story a week! No less than that!" Kerouac credits Emily Dickinson "who is probably great American poet I realize now," together with his Lowell High School English teacher Joseph Pyne. He notes emphatically, "High School crucial time to teach," before adding a post-script of sorts: "But writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)." James Sherlock submitted his paper based on the replies in January 1961. Provenance : James A. Sherlock, by descent to the consignor.
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