Collectors Today
The Gail and Stephen Rudin Literary Autograph Collection
Cornell University Library celebrates the arrival of a spectacular collection of letters by noted American and British writers. The Rudin literary collection, thoughtfully and skillfully assembled by Gail Rudin ’56 and Stephen Rudin, was donated to Cornell’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in December 2004. Original letters in the Rudin collection record the thoughts and inspirations of some of the most significant writers of the past two centuries. Included are over two hundred letters by such literary giants as Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Samuel Clemens, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Alex Haley, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Rod Serling, George Bernard Shaw, Kurt Vonnegut, and William Wordsworth, to name only a few. Many of these letters illuminate the creative process, providing fascinating insight into an author’s approach to the craft of writing.
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