KENNETH LITTAUER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/25/1937 - HFSID 55632
Sale Price $385.00
Reg. $460.00
THE FICTION EDITOR OF "COLLIER'S" WRITES TO ONE OF MARGARET MITCHELL'S FIRST
BOOK REVIEWERS REGARDING THE SUCCESS OF AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED ABOUT MITCHELL IN
"COLLIER'S" AND AN UPCOMING VISIT TO THE AUTHOR, WHO WOULD WIN THE PULITZER
PRIZE FOR FICTION FIVE WEEKS AFTER THIS LETTER
KENNETH LITTAUER. TLS: "Kenneth Littauer" as Fiction
Editor, 1p, 5½x8½. New York City, 1937 March 25. On letterhead of
Collier's to Mr. Edwin Granberry, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
Begins: "Dear Granberry". In full: "Many thanks for
writing to me. It seems to be an established fact now that the article was a
great success. I hope the correspondence is not breaking your back. Just
this morning I received a letter from Margaret Mitchell urging me to call on
them in Atlanta, so the prospect looks fair. When you think the time is
ripe for me to see them won't you let me know? All the best to you and Mrs.
Granberry. Sincerely yours". The article to which Littauer refers was
likely "The Private Life of Margaret Mitchell", which was published in
"Collier's" on March 13, 1937. It was written by Granberry in response to
Mitchell's request to have an "official" article written about her to alleviate
the growing demands for news about her after the publication of her Pulitzer
Prize-winning book, Gone With the Wind. KENNETH LITTAUER, who
died in 1968, was the fiction editor at "Collier's" and a New York
literary agent whose clients included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut and
James Salter. Littauer was also one of the early sponsors of the Civil Air
Patrol. EDWIN GRANBERRY (1897-1988), an author and professor at Rollins
College, was also a free-lance book reviewer for the New York "Evening Sun".
After receiving an advance copy of Margaret Mitchell's American Civil War epic,
Gone With the Wind, he had written one of the first glowing reviews
of the book on the day of its publication, June 30, 1936. Granberry and his
wife, MABEL, had first met Mitchell and her husband, advertising
executive JOHN MARSH, at Blowing Rock, North Carolina, the summer campus
of Florida's Rollins College, and they became close friends and frequent
correspondents. Mitchell had married Marsh in 1925, shortly before she began her
book, which won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (in May 1937, five
weeks after this letter) and was made into an award-winning feature film in
1939. Lightly creased with folds, light horizontal crease at the lower portion
of the "K" in Kenneth. Staple holes at upper blank margin. Fine
condition.
Following offer submission users will be contacted at their account email address within 48 hours. Our response will be to accept your offer, decline your offer or send you a final counteroffer. All offers can be viewed from within the "Offer Review" area of your HistoryForSale account. Please review the Make Offer Terms prior to making an offer.
If you have not received an offer acceptance or counter-offer email within 24-hours please check your spam/junk email folder.