The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (JWJ) documents and celebrates the cultural and artistic achievements and the intellectual and political activities of African Americans.
Students and scholars often wonder about how literary archives take shape, their gaps and depths, their organization, structure. A wide range of factors may determine what happens to a writer's papers both during and after their lifetime.
Well known on campus and around the world as a site of important historical documents of all kinds, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript is also a regional...
Beinecke Library resources for contemplating and studying a broad range of topics related to writing the self: memoir, self-portraiture, self-presentation,...
The Ann Petry Manuscripts collection in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection ( JWJ MSS 206 ) contains the writings of American author Ann Petry...
This Sway by Curator Melissa Barton provides an introduction to Zora Neale Hurston in the archives. Barton begins, “ What can we know about a person from what...
We asked Justin, poet and student at the Yale Prison Education Initiative, to reflect on creativity in 2020. In response, he shared this poem, a rich and...
