Rauner Special Collections Finding Aids

Guide to the Letters of Alexander Karanikas, 1943-2006

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	Creator:	Karanikas, Alexander
	Title Remainder:	Letters. 1943-2006
	Dates:	1943-2006
	Identification:	Mss-246
	Size of collection:	1 box ( .50 linear ft.)
	description:	Typescripts, signed holographs.
	Abstract:	Alexander Karanikas, Harvard class of 1939,Staff Sergeant in the Army Air Corp and author. Papers primarily document Karanikas' work under Vilhjalmur Stefansson on Artic and cold weather flying at the Cold Weather Testing Detachment near Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Biography

Alexander Karanikas, Harvard class of 1939, served as a Staff Sergeant in the Army Air Forces, where he was stationed at Ladd Field, Alaska from 1943-1945. A Greek-American author, Karanikas has written several books and poems including Tillers of a Myth: The Southern Agrarians as Social and Literary Critics, Hellenes and Hellions, and Stepping Stones. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Scope and Contents of Collection

The Papers of Alexander Karanikas contain his personal war-time correspondence with Bess Needleman, their renewed correspondence in the 1970s, and copies of his published articles and poems with letters from the publishers. The letters relate to Karanikas' work under Vilhjalmur Stefansson on Artic and cold weather flying at the Cold Weather Testing Detachment near Fairbanks, Alaska.

Access to Collection

Unrestricted.

Preferred Cititation

Letters of Alexander Karanikas; Mss-246; Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

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BOX : 1

1943-2006

Personal war-time correspondence between Alexander Karanikas and Bess Needleman, starting while Karanikas was stationed with the Army Air Forces at Ladd Field, Alaska, 1943-48. A briefly renewed correspondence between Karanikas and Needleman in 1971. Copies of articles and poems pulished by Karanikas, and letters from the publishers, 1943-2006.

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