Mark Smith Letters, 1964-1972

Collection number: MS 229
Size: (24 items) (0.10 cu.ft.)

About Mark Smith, b. 1935

Author from Northwood, NH. He is best known for his book The Death of the Detective, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1974.

About the Mark Smith Letters

This collection contains 24 letters written mostly to his editors at Little, Brown and Company, about his career as a novelist. In 1964, there is a 4 page letter that is written as an autobiography and analysis of his own work. Other letters are about his next novel and its progress; then in 1972 he breaks with this publisher.

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This collection is open.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [Folder], [Box], Mark Smith Letters, 1964-1972, MS 229, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased: Charles Apfelbaum, Jan. 13, 1992 (Accession number:9232)

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Letters & Postcards