Photography & Ephemera

STEIN, Sol (1926-2019). Large archive of materials related to the life and career of Sol Stein. 1940s-2000s. A large collection of materials, among them contracts and statements for the Beacon Press and for Stein & Day, personal correspondence between Stein and such luminaries as Claude Rains, Dorothea Petrie, William F. Buckley Jr., others. Archive also includes personal copies of books from Beacon Press as well as works by James Baldwin, Wassily Kandinsky, Oscar Williams, others, a signed copy of The Falconer by John Cheever, and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles, and other ephemeral materials. Provenance: From the estate of Sol Stein. As an editor Sol Stein is responsible for bringing into the world some of the most consequential works of the twentieth century, among them James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son and George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. He founded the New York publishing firm Stein & Day in 1962 with his then-wife, Patricia Day. Over the course of its twenty-five year existence Stein & Day published works by F. Lee Bailey, David Frost, Che Guevara, Elia Kazan, Marilyn Monroe, and Dylan Thomas. In addition to his editorial work he wrote and published his own novels and plays, created a software program for aspiring writers called WritePro, and worked extensively with Voice of America as a script writer.