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⚠️ Yale Library will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7, for the Labor Day holiday. See details. Literary archives include all kinds of writings -- from loose notes and notebooks to edited typescripts to nearly complete works written by an author for her typist. These documents allow us to see something of a writer's thought processes, writing habits.

A comprehensive history of the writing and publication of Gertrue Stein’s novel Ida is available along with the full text of the published novel in the following online edition: Gertrude Stein, Ida: A Novel, edited by Logan Esdale, New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2012. Information below is drawn largly from Esdale’s scholarship. All manuscritp materials pictured are from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B.

Writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) is counted among the most important and influential African American writers of the twentieth century. His novels and essays explore the complexities and consequences of racial strife in the United States.