L.E. Sissman

 

Retrospective: The Atlantic (March 17, 1999)

 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Biography

The New York Times Obituary (March 11, 1976)

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview

HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: L.E. Sissman

Rare Materials

Peter Davison papers on L. E. Sissman, 1967-1999

Finding Aid: L.E. Sissman Papers 
The bulk of the collection is manuscripts by Sissman, mostly poems, but also prose including essays, drafts, notes, fragments of stories and novels, and a few speeches.

Finding Aid: L.E. Sissman, Additional Papers 
The bulk of this collection is typescripts and proofs of Sissman's poems and book reviews, and of his Atlantic monthly column, "The Innocent Bystander." Also includes correspondence, including letters from The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker as well as letters received by L.E. Sissman's wife after his death. There are compositions by others, including a typescript of John Updike's forward to Sissman's Innocent Bystander: Scenes from the '70s, among other items.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

 

American Public Media: "The Writer's Almanac"