Scope and Contents 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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Journalist with Time and Newsday, where he began a column nationally syndicated in 1969. Author of several books. Correspondence, research, interviews, audio tapes, photographs, speeches, reporter's notebooks, and preliminary drafts of his works.