Philip Freund papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6798

Scope and content

Papers of Philip Freund, including manuscripts, photographs, reviews, etc.

Scope and content

Also, two notebooks with manuscripts and typescripts of "The Posthumous Papers of Ambrose Baum."

Dates

[ca. 1929-2007]

Creator

Freund, Philip, 1909-2007. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Theater historian, writer, educator. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Philip Freund graduated from Cornell in 1929. While at Cornell, he wrote for and edited a literary journal, The Columns, and after graduation, started a small publishing firm. He taught courses in creative writing, film, and entertainment and the arts at Hunter College (1946-1978), Cornell (1948), the University of British Columbia (1949-1951), and Fordham University (1960-1979). He published 8 novels, 13 plays, and 9 short-story collections, as well as poetry, essays, literary criticism, and other non-fiction. for the last 30 years of his life, he researched and wrote a four-volume comprehensive history of the theater, Stage by Stage.".