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DeFrees, Madeline

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Madeline De Frees Papers

1951-1988
13 boxes 6 linear feet
Call no.: FS 051

Temporarily stored offsite; contact SCUA to request materials from this collection.

After receiving her MA from the University of Oregon in 1951, Madeline De Frees embarked on a career teaching English and writing to students ranging in age from elementary school to college (University of Montana, Seattle University). Joining the faculty at UMass Amherst in 1979, she served as Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing from 1980 to 1983, retiring in 1985.

The DeFrees Papers are a collection of personal and professional correspondence, poems and other writings, interviews and photographs. Biographical materials, financial records, and interviews comprise the remainder of the collection.

Subjects

Poets--Massachusetts

Contributors

De Frees, MadelineUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst--FacultyUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of English