Ted Wojtasik papers
Collection
0559-LIT
This collection contains the papers of Ted Wojtasik, an author and friend of Katherine Anne Porter late in her life. Wojtasik was born and raised in Connecticut and obtained an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University and a Ph.D in 20th century American literature from the University of South Carolina. Wojtasik met Porter in July 1979 and briefly worked on an edition of her letters. Wojtasik is currently a visiting professor in Creative Writing at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. He has published three novels, No Strange Fire (1996), Collage (2004), and Wild Animal Nation (2006) in addition to several short stories.
The collection consists of correspondence between Wojtasik and Joan Givner, Earl Graves, Rhea Johnson, Anatole Pohorilenko, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Porter, Darlene Unrue, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott, amongst others. It also includes photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence between Porter and Rhea Johnson, essays, and short stories.
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.75 Linear Feet (1 letter size box and 1 legal size box)
16 Photographs : Color photographs and black and white photographs
This collection was donated to UMD Libraries from 2018 to 2020 by Ted Wojtasik, an author and friend of Katherine Anne Porter.
Material was inventoried and placed in acid free folders and box. Items were arranged in the same order received.
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