Justin O'Brien papers, 1925-1968
Biographical Note
Professor of French at Columbia University and biographer and translator of André Gide.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with André Gide, the manuscripts and notes for his biography PORTRAIT OF ANDRÉ GIDE, and for his translations
of the JOURNALS OF ANDRÉ GIDE, SO BE IT, and PRETEXTS, and other notes and articles about André Gide. Also, correspondence
with many contemporary French writers including Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Julian Green, Valéry Larbaud, Jean Malaquais,
Roger Martin du Gard, André Maurois, Henry de Montherlant, and Georges Simenon. Prof. O'Brien translated works by Baidouy,
Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Henry de Montherlant, Nathalie Sarraute, and Jean-Paul Sartre; the typescript of Camus' L'EXILE
ET LE ROYAUME is of special interest. Prof. O'Brien's files cover a broad range of French culture including correspondence
with other French scholars, educational organizations, editors, publishers (notably Blanche W. Knopf), with members of the
OSS in wartime France, and with other literary figures such as Gilbert Highet, Dwight Macdonald, and Klaus Mann.
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