L.E. Sissman

(1928-1976)

Attended Harvard (A.B. 1949)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  Retrospective: The Atlantic (March 17, 1999)
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Biography
Harvard The New York Times Obituary (March 11, 1976)

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: L.E. Sissman
Rare Materials
Hollis Peter Davison papers on L. E. Sissman, 1967-1999
Oasis 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.
Oasis 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"