COLL/165 Guide to the Frederick Feikema Manfred Collection Manfred, Frederick Feikema Collection

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Guide to the Frederick Feikema Manfred Collection Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Frederick Feikema Manfred Collection 1933-1992 COLL/165 Frederick Feikema Manfred, 1912-1994 6.00 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Hekman Library 1855 Knollcrest Circle SE Grand Rapids, MI, URL: http://archives.calvin.edu Email: crcarchives@calvin.edu Phone: 616-526-6913 Fax: 616-526-7689
Author. The collection includes correspondence, 1940-1959; lectures, i.e., “Headlands of Integrity,” and “The Four Hungers”; taped interviews; newspaper articles; book reviews; bibliography; a student term paper entitled “Hans Memling, the Painter”; writings about F. Feikema Manfred; novelettes; and manuscripts, i.e., Of Lizards and Angels and Flowers of Desire.  The primary manuscript collection is at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Biographical Information:

Noted regionalist author, Frederick Feikema Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa on January 6, 1912. Raised in the Christian Reformed faith, Manfred attend Calvin College. In 1937 Manfred worked at The Minnesota Journal as a sports reporter. In 1940 Manfred developed a case of tuberculosis and was sent to Glen Lake Sanatorium in Oak Terrace, Minnesota. It was there that Manfred met his bride-to-be, Maryanna Shorba. In 1942 Manfred became a staff member of Modern Medicine as well as an assistant campaign manager for Hubert Humphrey.

At the beginning of Manfred’s career as an author, he went under the pen name of Feike Feikema. However, after some poorly received books, he changed his name to Frederick Feikema Manfred in 1952. After his name change, his luck turned around with his five novel series of “The Buckskin Man Tales”. The first book in the series, Lord Grizzly, became a best seller and a finalists for the National Book Award in 1954. During the 1970s and 80s Manfred was a writer-in-residence at the University of South Dakota. Manfred passed away in 1994 due to a brain tumor.

Arrangement of Materials:

Folder level description

Detailed List of Contents id36722 Biographical Material 1933-1992 id36724 1 id36725 1 1 Correspondence 1935-1982 id36728 1 2 Letters from Peter De Vries and David Cornel De Jong id36730 1 3 Bibliographies by G. Kellog 1965 and J. M. Flora Scope and Contents

1974

id36732 1 4 Book jacket, This is the Year by F. Manfred id36734 1 5 Term paper, Hans Memlinc, the Painter, undated id36736 1 6 An interview in Minnesota with F. Manfred by James W. Lee in Studies in the Novel, Fall 1973 id36738 1 7 Novelettes, Arrow of Love, Lew and Luanne, and Country Love 1961 id36740 1 8 Writings 1934-1982 id36743 1 9 Writings about F. Feikema Manfred 1933-1949 id36745 1 10 Writings about F. Feikema Manfred 1954-1959 id36747 1 11 Writings about F. Feikema Manfred 1963-1965 id36750 1 12 Writings about F. Feikema Manfred 1972-1976 id36752 1 13 Writings about F. Feikema Manfred 1977-1979 id36754 1 14 Writings about F. Feikema Manfred 1981-1987 id36755 1 15 Writings about F. Feikema Manfred [undated]
id36757 Correspondence 1963-1972 id36759 2 id36761 2 1 Correspondence July-December, 1963 id36762 2 2 Correspondence January-June, 1964 id36765 2 3 Correspondence July-December, 1964 id36767 2 4 Correspondence January-June, 1965 id36769 2 5 Correspondence July-December, 1965 id36771 2 6 Correspondence January-June, 1972 id36773 2 7 Book Reviews 1945-1992 id36775 2 8 Miscellaneous material compiled by S. Lambers, re: F. Feikema Manfred id36777 Correspondence and Manuscript 1972-1973 id36779 3 id36780 3 1 Correspondence July-December, 1972 id36782 3 2 id36784 3 2 Correspondence January-June, 1973 id36786 3 2 Report on class in creative writing March 18, 1973 id36787 3 3 Manuscript Of Lizards and Angels, pages 1-181 id36789 3 4 Manuscript Of Lizards and Angels, pages 182-343 id36791 3 5 Manuscript Of Lizards and Angels, pages 344-504 id36794 3 6 The Laureates' Anthology, Vol. 2 id36795 Manuscript id36797 4 id36799 4 1 Flowers of Desire (with corrections), pages 1-99 id36802 4 2 Flowers of Desire (with corrections), pages 100-199 id36804 4 3 Flowers of Desire (with corrections), pages 200-322 id36806 4 4 Flowers of Desire (with corrections), pages 323-427 id36808 4 5 Flowers of Desire (with corrections), pages 428-531 id36810 Miscellaneous Material id36812 5 id36813 5 1 Correspondence 1940-1985 id36815 5 2 Letters between F. Manfred and Peter De Vries and David C. DeJong id36817 5 3 The Secret Place by: F. Manfred id36819 5 4 The South Dakota Review, Vol. 2 #1 id36821 5 5 Manfred’s speeches (3 cassette tapes): [Untitled Manfred Speech], 1959; “Who Are the Frisians?” 1976 [HHM165-1; 2a; 2b] id37482 5 6 Interview by James C. Schaap (CD) Dec. 1980 Scope and Contents

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id37483 Books by F. F. Manfred (signed by author) id37484 6 id37485 6 Boy Almighty id37486 6 Scarlet Plume id37487 6 The Brother id37488 6 The Chokecherry Tree id37489 6 The Golden Bowl id37490 6 The Giant