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Edward Field Alfred Chester Archives Special Collections Department Edward Field Alfred Chester Archives 1950 - 1994 Manuscript Collection Number: 340 Accessioned: Purchase, May 1994 Extent: 4 linear feet Content: Correspondence, books, clippings, reviews, printed material, paintings, photographs, realia Access: The collection is open for research. Processed: March 1997 by Julie Witsken for reference assistance email Special Collections or contact: Special Collections, University of Delaware Library Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 (302) 831-2229 Table of Contents Biographical Note Scope and Contents Note Series Outline Contents List Biographical Note American author Alfred Chester was born in Brooklyn on September 7, 1928, to immigrant parents. At age seven he lost nearly all the hair on his body to a childhood disease. The event colored his life perceptibly, as mocking peers caused him to withdraw from society and he become more introspective. His mental anguish can also be seen in many of his works, in which characters often feel themselves to be outsiders in one way or another. Chester entered Washington Square College of New York University in 1945, where he made frequent contributions to NYU publications. After receiving his B.A. in English, he matriculated at Columbia University. He left before receiving a graduate degree and sailed for France in 1950 after a short trip to Mexico. Throughout most of the 1950s, Chester remained in Paris. The city was then a haven for great literary minds, and Chester established friendships with such people as Carson McCullers and James Baldwin. During that time, many of his short stories and essays were published in prominent French magazines; in 1955 Here Be Dragons, a collection of four short stories, was published by a small press in Paris. The next year the work was published in London, followed by Chester's first novel, Jamie Is My Heart's Desire. By the time Jamie Is My Heart's Desire was published in New York in 1957, Chester's literary reputation was recognized in the United States. Chester won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957, and his short stories were chosen for inclusion in Prize Stories 1956: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories of 1957. The sale of the story "A War on Salamis" to the New Yorker provided Chester with the funds to return to New York in 1959. Back in the United States, Chester found himself at the center of the literary scene. His short stories continued to be published, mostly by small literary magazines such as the Transatlantic Review. In contrast to his fiction, his critical works appeared in the most prestigious New York publications, such as the Partisan Review and Commentary. Chester was in constant demand during this time; editors continually hounded him for stories and particularly reviews, which were always much talked-about for their direct attacks on such esteemed writers as J.D. Salinger. Chester resented the demand for his criticism over his fiction, which he felt was the more important avenue for his creative energies. Wishing to escape the New York literary scene and concentrate on his fiction, Chester moved to Morocco in 1963. He could not completely separate himself from New York literary circles, however, as his poverty forced him to continue doing reviews. His fiction met with even less praise than previously. Disappointment in poor reviews of his fiction increased Chester's determination to continue writing the way he saw fit. He refused to compromise his ideals and temper his more outrageous work, and he denounced his more conventional works. While in Morocco, Chester's mental health suffered. Chester was at the time involved with a bisexual Moroccan, Driss B. L. El Kasri. When Chester's friend Susan Sontag, then famed for her Notes on Camp, announced her plans to visit Chester, he feared the beautiful writer would steal Driss away from him. (Chester had temporarily lost his companion Arthur Davis in a similar manner in 1959.) For the first time, he began to experience serious conflict over his homosexuality; dealing with it drove him mad. When antisocial and threatening behavior brought on by his madness was called to the attention of the Moroccan authorities, Chester was expelled from the country in 1965. He returned to New York, where his literary production declined along with his mental health. He wrote only one work during that time, The Foot, and refused to write reviews or even to see friends. Chester did not stay in New York for long, but soon returned to the Morocco he perceived as paradise. He was again expelled. He spent the remaining years of his life wandering from country to country in search of a substitute paradise. He eventually settled in Jerusalem, where he was found dead in 1971. Israeli authorities reported that his death was the apparent result of the alcohol and drugs he took to combat his dementia. --Edward Field-- American poet and editor Edward Field was born in Brooklyn on June 7, 1924. For a short time he attended New York University, where he first met the then fledgling writer Alfred Chester. After his stint at the university, Field went to Europe and began his writing career. Many of his poems were published in literary magazines, and his first book, Stand Up, Friend, With Me (1963), won the Lamont Award in 1962. That success was soon followed by others, such as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome, and the Shelley Memorial Award. Besides becoming an accomplished poet, Field has also edited anthologies of poetry and produced the narration for the documentary film To Be Alive, which won an Academy Award in 1965. Another of his literary endeavors has been to champion his friend Alfred Chester's works for reprint and to revive Chester's literary reputation. He is now the editor of The Alfred Chester Newsletter and collaborates on fiction with Neil Derrick. Sources: Field, Edward. Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1963-1992. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Meanor, Patrick, ed. American Short Story Writers Since World War II. 130. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. Scope and Content Note The Edward Field Alfred Chester Archives consists of four linear feet of correspondence, printed material, photos, paintings, and realia related to American author Alfred Chester which was collected by his friend, the American poet Edward Field. The collection spans the dates 1950 to 1994 and is divided into four series: correspondence, biographical material, works by Chester, and literary revival by Edward Field. Series I contains correspondence from Chester to several friends and to his cousin. Letters to Theodora Blum McKee, Edward Field, and Robert Friend are originals; all others are photocopies of originals which were collected by Edward Field. Also included are Edward Field's typed transcriptions of most of the letters. In most cases files of the originals/photocopies are followed by files of transcriptions with corresponding contents. However, in some cases individual original letters are present without the corresponding transcriptions, and vice versa. The series also contains letters to Chester from Edward Field, Chester's lover Arthur Davis, and Maurice Girodias. The series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with individual folders of originals/photocopies immediately followed by corresponding folders of transcriptions. The letters cover the years 1950 to 1970, with correspondence tapering off after 1967 as Chester's insanity caused him to withdraw from the world and neglect his friends. Chester wrote very detailed letters, highly personal in nature, which provide a wealth of information about his circumstances as well as his innermost thoughts. In the letters he discusses everything from publishing matters, works in progress, Moroccan culture, Beat culture and other Beats, to love affairs. Series II contains biographical information and materials. The biographical information consists of a typed chronology compiled by Edward Field; a taped interview of Harriet Sohmers Zwerlig about Chester; a list of quotations from others praising Chester's works; Life Without Mirrors, a screenplay about Chester by Edward Field and Neil Derrick; and newspaper clippings of obituaries. Also included are articles and memoirs of Chester written by Edward Field and other friends of Chester, such as fellow writer Cynthia Ozick. Field wrote and solicited the memoirs during his campaign to get Chester's works reprinted. Other "biographical" material in Series II consists of photographs and copies of photos of Chester, four paintings by Chester's lover Driss, and clay from Chester's grave. Series III contains Chester's published works and material directly relating to those works. The series is subdivided into three sections. Within each sub- series, the works are arranged chronologically. The first sub-series consists of works published as articles or included in anthologies, as well as some photocopies of works. The second sub-series contains published books. In the third sub-series are copyrights for, correspondence relating to, and reviews of publications which Field championed for reprint after Chester's death, most notably Looking for Genet (1992), Head of a Sad Angel (1990), and The Exquisite Corpse (1986). In some instances, copies and tearsheets of stories and articles printed in those works are included. Also included are Field's typed transcriptions of Alfred's letters from Morocco, which Field hoped to publish collectively as Voyage to Destruction and which were published in part in various literary magazines, journals, and newspaper sections. Others' works pertaining to Chester, however tangentially, and material relating to those works are also contained in this sub-series. Series IV contains evidence of Field's devotion to Chester and of his efforts to reestablish Chester's literary reputation. The bulk of the series is correspondence between Field and Chester's friends, such as Paul Bowles, and publishers. Many of these letters address publication concerns and discuss Field's editorial procedures, such as including or expurgating certain material while editing Chester's letters.
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