Breit, Harvey
Person
Biography
Harvey Breit, 1909-1968, poet, playwright, and interviewer, was a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review from 1940-1965. He published a series of interviews with various authors in the Book Review which was collected as The Writer Observed (London, 1957). He also wrote book reviews for Poetry magazine and other journals.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Harvey Breit Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS1
Abstract
Harvey Breit, poet, playwright, and interviewer, was a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review from 1940-1965. This collection consists of more than 225 pages of correspondence sent to Breit during this period by more than fifty authors and public figures.
Dates:
1940 - 1965; Other: Majority of material found within 1945 - 1955