Collection ID: LMC 1426
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Summary

Creator:
Greene, Ernest S.
Abstract:
The Greene, E. mss., 1925-1964, consists of the correspondence of Ernest S. Greene, 1890-1979, secretary to novelist Upton Beall Sinclair, 1878-1968.
Extent:
1 Box (1 standard)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Greene, E. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Ernest S. Greene, 1890-1979, was born in Texas, served in World War I, and was a clerk and office worker in St. Louis and Detroit before joining Vanguard Press in New York City in 1926. The Press started representing American novelist Upton Beall Sinclair, 1878-1968, in 1927. Thereafter, Greene was engaged in a number of research projects for Sinclair, became his secretary, and served as his representative in the sale and distribution of some of his books, including Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.

Between 1929 and 1933, Greene was engaged as secretary of the Committee for the Candidacy of Upton Sinclair for the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1932, Greene became a party to the controversy with Sergei Mikahailovich Eisenstein over the production of the film Thunder over Mexico, and he became involved in marketing the film in New York City in 1933. Greene worked in the U.S. War Department in Washington, D.C., in the 1940s. In 1950, following Upton Sinclair's instructions, he arranged to publish "Brother Logan," a story written by Sinclair, under his own name in Intro for Winter. A brief flurry of editorial interest in Greene's writing followed.

Scope and Content:

The Greene, E. mss., 1925-1964, consists of the correspondence of Ernest S. Greene, 1890-1979, secretary to novelist Upton Beall Sinclair, 1878-1968. Sinclair's letter to Greene of February 26, 1932, was published in Geduld and Gottesman, The Making & Unmaking of Que Viva Mexico!, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1970 (PN1887 .Q312), pages 292-293. Some of the correspondence in 1933 and 1934 relates to the EPIC campaign of Upton Sinclair. Author Mary Craig (Kimbrough) Sinclair, 1883-1961, who participated actively in the making of Thunder Over Mexico in Mexico in the 1930s, wrote to Greene about the film and sent copies of other correspondence to him to keep him informed. The correspondents in this collection are Milton A. Abernethy, Agustin Felipe Aragon y Leiva, Maurice Baring, Myra Becks, Linn Rudolf Blanchard, Sir Robert Laird Borden, Louis Brigante, Heywood Campbell Broun, Jacques Chambrun, Inc., Floyd Dell, John Falk, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., Ernest S. Greene, Reinhold Friedrich Alfred Hoerne, Roy Temple House, Fiorello Henry La Guardia, Harold Joseph Laski, Jane Lawson, Sol Lesser, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund W. Nash, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Craig (Kimbrough) Sinclair, Upton Beall Sinclair, Seymour Stern, Oswald Garrison Villard, Helen (Rosen) Woodward, and William Edward Woodward. The collection also includes a folder of printed material and photographs of Sergei Mikahailovich Eisenstein and Upton Beall Sinclair.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: 1972
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged following original order.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Greene, E. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu