Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection focuses on the professional career of award winning journalist, former Speech Writer and Press Secretary, bestselling author of narrative non-fiction and professor, Stephen G. Bloom.The bulk of this collection is made up of drafts of manuscripts from his major novels and creative works, each accompanied by extensive research notes and correspondence, as well as promotional materials relating to each work's release. Each of these can be found in the PROJECTS series. The Brazil Chronicles (University of Missouri Press), is the history of an eclectic English-language expat newspaper in Rio de Janeiro that dates to 1879. Bloom’s narrative work is exemplified by three other of his bestselling books, Postville (Harcourt, 2000), The Oxford Project (Welcome Books, 2008), and Tears of...

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Various press articles including Smithsonian Magazine, reviews, promotional event materials, "Oxford Project, Who We Are" at the Englert, interview drafts and notes, photograph proofs by Peter Feldstein, Bloom's partner and founder of the project, as well as the Italian translation of the project, exhibit materials, correspondence.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection focuses on the professional career of award winning journalist, former Speech Writer and Press Secretary, bestselling author of narrative non-fiction and professor, Stephen G. Bloom.The bulk of this collection is made up of drafts of manuscripts from his major novels and creative works, each accompanied by extensive research notes and correspondence, as well as promotional materials relating to each work's release. Each of these can be found in the PROJECTS series. The Brazil Chronicles (University of Missouri Press), is the history of an eclectic English-language expat newspaper in Rio de Janeiro that dates to 1879. Bloom’s narrative work is exemplified by three other of his bestselling books, Postville (Harcourt, 2000), The Oxford Project (Welcome Books, 2008), and Tears of...

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Correspondence between Bloom and his editors at various news publications, literary agents, editors, colleagues, faculty at the University of Iowa, and "thank you notes" from various students. Also included in Bloom's correspondence, postcards sent to his parents, Marian and Jerry Bloom, which detail his travels as a foreign correspondent in Brazil and other parts of Latin America.

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Materials from Bloom's project Tears of Mermaids including reporters notebooks, research materials, correspondence, press articles, manuscript drafts with edits.

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Materials pertaining to the project Postville including: interview transcripts and notes, research materials, correspondence, trial transcripts, annexed chapters, manuscript drafts with edits, promotional materials from the traveling exhibit, Postville reviews, publishing agreements, lectures and other curriculum based materials, library event materials, and FOIA reports.