#  James Laughlin 

 



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Sort   ##  (1914-1997) 

 

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 Attended Harvard (A.B. 1939) Sort   



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  [*American National Biography* Online](http://www.anb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles/16/16-03420.html) 





    





  [The New York Times Obituary](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/books/james-laughlin-publisher-with-bold-taste-dies-at-83.html) (November 14, 1997) 





    





  [The Poetry Foundation Biography](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80798) 





  



 

    Sort   ##  HARVARD COLLECTIONS 

 





    **General Overview** 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: James Laughlin](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WAN=(%22Laughlin,%20James,%201914-1997%22)&adjacent=1) 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: James Laughlin](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WSN=(%22Laughlin,%20James,%201914-1997%22)&adjacent=1) 





    **Rare Materials** 





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  [Finding Aid: James Laughlin Compositions](http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic451705.files/nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00131)   
Poems and other materials sent to Hugh Witemeyer by James Laughlin. Also includes printed material on James Laughlin. 





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  [Finding Aid: James Laughlin Papers](http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic451705.files/nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00074) 





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  [Finding Aid: New Directions Publishing Corp.](http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic451705.files/nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00069)   
Manuscripts, galley proofs and page proofs of books published by New Directions, 1937-1997 





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  [Finding Aid: New Directions Publishing Corp. Records](http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic451705.files/nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00077)   
Records of New Directions Publishing Corporation largely from the Norfolk, Connecticut office of the founder, James Laughlin. 





   ##  ADDITIONAL LINKS 

 





    





  [New Directions Publishing Corp. History](http://www.ndbooks.com/about/)   
A brief history of the publishing firm James Laughlin founded in 1939. 





    





  [The Poetry Foundation Slideshow: "Book Arts"](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/69957)   
images from *The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin*, with commentary by David Biespel.