20th-century 'pack rats'

Here's just a fraction of the people and organizations whose correspondence, manuscripts, or other papers are housed at Boston University's Twentieth Century Archives.

Public affairs/social and religious movements:

Emma Goldman

The Rev. Norman Vincent Peale

Elie Wiesel

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nuremberg Medical Trials

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Music:

Arthur Fiedler

Ella Fitzgerald

Igor Kipnis

Anna Russell

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Writers:

Isaac Asimov

Bhabani Bhattacharya

Nikki Giovanni

Sue Grafton

W. Somerset Maughm

Anne Sexton

Film/theater:

Fred Astaire

Samuel Beckett

Bette Davis

Gene Kelly

Angela Lansbury

William Saroyan

George Bernard Shaw

Orson Welles

Journalists/ publishers/ commentators:

Craig Claiborne

Alistair Cooke

Frances Fitzgerald

John Gould

Al Hirshberg

Flora Lewis

Dan Rather

Gail Sheehy

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