Max Putzel papers relating to William Marion Reedy and The Mirror
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Max Putzel's research materials on St. Louis-area journalist William Marion Reedy and drafts of Putzel's biography of Reedy, The Man in the Mirror (1963). Putzel's research materials include the following: subject files containing photomechanical copies of articles from The Mirror and other publications, including work by Reedy and others, original newspaper clippings, and correspondence, including copies of letters from Reedy to others and letters to and from Putzel; index cards containing Putzel's autograph manuscript notes and bibliographic information; and miscellaneous copies of The Mirror and copies of essays by Reedy. Writings in the collection include an outline and paper submitted by Putzel for courses taken at Washington University in St. Louis in the mid 1950s and a draft and setting copy of Putzel's book-length biography of Reedy.
Dates
- 1907 - 1963
- Majority of material found within 1954 - 1963
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Max Putzel Papers Relating to William Marion Reedy and The Mirror is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Max Putzel, 1964. For additional information consult the appropriate curator.
Arrangement
Organized into two series: I. Research Material, 1907-1963. II. Writings, 1954-1963.
Extent
5.16 Linear Feet (11 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection consists of Max Putzel's research materials on St. Louis-area journalist William Marion Reedy and drafts of Putzel's biography of Reedy, The Man In the Mirror (1963). Putzel's research materials include the following: subject files containing photomechanical copies of articles from The Mirror and other publications, including work by Reedy and others, original newspaper clippings, and correspondence, including copies of letters from Reedy to others and letters to and from Putzel; index cards containing Putzel's autograph manuscript notes and bibliographic information; and miscellaneous copies of The Mirror and copies of essays by Reedy. Writings include an outline and paper submitted by Putzel for courses taken at Washington University in St. Louis in the mid 1950s and a draft and setting copy of Putzel's book-length biography of Reedy.
William Marion Reedy (1862-1920)
William Marion Reedy, a well-known American journalist, was born December 11, 1862 in St. Louis, Missouri to Patrick and Anne (Marion) Reedy and raised on the north side of St. Louis in a mostly Irish-American neighborhood called Kerry Patch. Reedy attended Christian Brothers College (1880) and then took his first journalism job with the Missouri Republican. Reedy moved on to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, where he started out as a court reporter and then focused on feature writing. During his twenty years at the paper, he also wrote articles for other publications, including the Sunday Mirror, which he took over and renamed Reedy's Mirror. Reedy died July 28, 1920 in San Francisco, California.
Biographical information taken from "William Marion Reedy." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 10 Jan. 2013.
Max Putzel (1910-2003)
Max Putzel, born April 5, 1910 in Denver, Colorado to Henry V. and Helen (Renard) Putzel, grew up in New Rochelle, New York and St. Louis, Missouri before earning a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1932. After graduating from Yale, Putzel took a job at the Granite City, Illinois Press-Record and then the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked as a copy boy, feature writer, and drama editor. In the late 1930s and early 1940s Putzel worked as an associate editor at Common Sense magazine in New York and then spent the war years working for the U.S. State Department's Office of Inter-American Affairs. When the war ended, Putzel became a farmer, first in Virginia, where he worked as a tenant farmer, then in the Meramec River Valley west of St. Louis, where he bought and worked a family farm. He attended Washington University in the mid 1950s and returned to Yale in the late 1950s for a doctorate in English. Putzel then taught English and American literature at the University of Connecticut for two decades. Putzel was the author of The Man in the Mirror (1963), a biography of newspaper editor William Marion Reedy, and Genius of Place: William Faulkner's Triumphant Beginnings (1985). Putzel died August 19, 2003.
Biographical information taken from obituary published in the Hartford Courant, August 23, 2003 and "Max Putzel." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 10 January 2013.
Processing Information
Former call number: Uncat Za Reedy.
- Title
- Guide to the Max Putzel Papers Relating to William Marion Reedy and The Mirror
- Author
- by Beinecke staff
- Date
- January 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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