MsC 649

Iowa Author

Manuscript Register

THE PAPERS OF KATINKA LOESER

.5 linear ft.

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: January 2002

Acquisition Note: The Katinka Loeser Papers were donated to the University of Iowa by two of Ms. Loeser's children: Jan DeVries and Derek DeVries in 1996 and 1997.

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

Katinka Loeser was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, on July 2, 1913. She grew up and went to school in Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1936. In the early 1940s, some of her poems began to appear in Poetry and in 1943 she won that magazine's Young Poet's Prize. The same year she became an associate editor of Poetry and in 1946 a contributing editor. On October 16, 1943, she married the writer Peter DeVries. After 1948, the family lived in Westport, Connecticut. They had four children: Jan, Peter Jon, Emily, and Derek. Emily died of leukemia in September 1960.

Ms. Loeser published three collections of short stories, most of which appeared in The New Yorker: Tomorrow Will Be Monday (1964), The Archers at Home (1968), and A Thousand Pardons (1982). She died on March 6, 1991, and an obituary can be found in The New York Times, March 8, 1991, Section A, page 22.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists mainly of unpublished manuscripts.

Box List

Box 1

Autograph notes from Katinka Loeser to her daughter, Jan DeVries (2 items)

Everyday China, typescript draft of an unpublished novel

"Notes on the Death of a Child," unpublished typescript

Poems, typescripts (4 items)

Short stories: