`Correspondents`

Adams, Léonie (1899–1988), poet; Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1948–1949.
Aiken, Conrad (1889–1973), poet and novelist.
Alvarez, Al (1929–2019), English critic.
Ames, Elizabeth [née Breneman; “Betty”] (c. 1907–2002), writer.
Ames, Van Meter (1898–1985), professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.
Appleton, Sarah [“Sally”; later Sarah Appleton Weber] (1930–2013), poet, translator, and scholar.
Asher, Aaron (1929–2008), editor at Meridian and Viking.
Auden, W. H. (1907–1973), English poet.
Barnard, Mary (1909–2001), poet, translator, and first curator of the Poetry Collection at the University of Buffalo.
Basler, Roy (1906–1989), librarian at the Library of Congress.
Beer, Alice Baldwin (1896–1969), curator; sister of Thomas Beer, Stephen Crane’s biographer.
Bell, Marvin (b. 1937), poet.
Bellow, Saul (1915–2005), novelist.
Bentley, Gerald [“Jed,” “Ged”] (1901–1994), professor of English at Princeton.
Berlind, Bruce (1926–2014), poet.
Berndt, Susan Galliher (1924–2013), writer and teacher. Author of Berryman’s Baedeker: The Epigraphs to The Dream Songs (The Rook Society, 1976).
Berryman, John Angus McAlpin [“Uncle Jack”] (?1874–1947), JB’s stepfather.
Berryman, Martha [née Martha Shaver Little; also called “Jill” and “Mir”] (1894–1976), JB’s mother, who initially worked as a teacher and later in advertising.
Berryman, Paul (b. 1957), son of JB and Ann Levine.
Berryman, Robert Jefferson [“Bob,” “Jeff”] (1919–1994).
Bettman, Elisabeth (1918–1990), professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–1979), poet.
Bishop, John Peale (1892–1944), poet and critic.
Blackmur, R. P. (1904–1965), critic and poet.
Bloom, Edward (1914–1994), professor of English at Brown University.
Bly, Robert (b. 1926), poet.
Borah, Woodrow (1912–1999), professor at Berkeley.
Boydell, Brian (1917–2000), Irish composer.
Brooks, Cleanth, Jr. (1906–1994), critic.
Brown, Francis (1904–1995), editor of The New York Times Book Review.
Buchanan, Scott (1895–1968), philosopher and teacher.
Buckman, Gertrude (?1912–?2001), writer, reviewer, and editor. Married to Delmore Schwartz in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862–1947), president of Columbia.
Cameron, Elizabeth [“Puggy”], librarian at Cincinnati Public Library.
Campbell, Florence Johnston [later Florence Johnston Miller], married to Robert Bhain Campbell.
Campbell, Robert Bhain (1911–1940), poet.
Carruth, Hayden (1921–2008), poet and editor at Poetry magazine.
Carver, Catharine [“Katie”] (1921–1997), editor.
Clark, John W., professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
Clemens, Cyril (1902–1999), president of the International Mark Twain Society.
Collieson, Frank (1926–2016), manager at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge, England.
Cone, Edward Toner (1917–2004), composer, musicologist, and pianist.
Cook, Reginald (1903–1984), professor at Middlebury College and director of the Bread Loaf School of English, Vermont.
Cookson, William (1939–2003), poet and editor.
Cooper, Russell M. (1907–1975), dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.
Coulette, Henri (1927–1988), poet and professor at California State University, Los Angeles.
Cowley, Malcolm (1898–1989), writer and editor.
Crawford, Bryce L. (1914–2011), dean of the graduate school at the University of Minnesota.
Crook, Arthur (1912–2005), editor of the Times Literary Supplement (1959–1974).
Deutsch, Babette (1895–1982), poet and critic.
Dickey, James (1923–1997), poet, novelist and editor.
Donahue, Kathleen [“Kate”] (b. 1939), married JB in 1961. Teacher and family counselor.
Doughty, LeGarde S. (1898–1957), poet.
Duthie, George Ian (1915–1967), Shakespeare scholar at Aberdeen University.
Eberhart, Richard (1904–2005), poet.
Eberl, Galen, Secretary of the Poetry Center at East 92nd Street, New York.
Eeman, Beryl (1916–1992), student at Newnham College, Cambridge in the 1930s.
Eliason, Shirley [later Shirley Eliason Haupt] (1929–1988), artist and professor of art.
Eliot, T. S. (1888–1965), poet, critic, and editor.
Epstein, Edmund (1931–2012), scholar and editor.
Evans, Luther (1902–1981), Librarian of Congress.
Faulkner, William (1897–1962), novelist.
Fitts, Dudley (1903–1968), critic and translator.
Fitzgerald, Robert (1910–1985), translator and poet.
Fredericks, Claude (1923–2013), printer; publisher of JB’s His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt.
Friar, Kimon (1911–1993), translator and poet.
Frost, Robert (1874–1963), poet.
Gardner, Isabella (1915–1981), poet and actor; editor at Poetry magazine.
Gay, Karl (1912–1995), curator of the Poetry Collection at the State University of New York.
Ghiselin, Brewster (1903–2002), poet and professor; founder of the University of Utah Writer’s Conference.
Giroux, Robert (1914–2008), editor and publisher.
Goodman, Ezra, poet and film critic.
Guerry, Alexander (1890–1948), vice chancellor at the University of the South.
Haggin, B. H. (1900–1987), music critic.
Halliday, E. M. [“Milt”] (1913–2003), historian, editor, and close friend of JB at Columbia in the 1930s.
Hardwick, Elizabeth (1916–2007), writer; one of the founders of The New York Review of Books.
Hastings, Leslie, JB’s landlord in Boston in the early 1940s.
Hawes, John T. (1906–1983), director at Thomas Y. Crowell Publishing Company.
Hayes, Raphael (1915–2010), poet and screenwriter.
Haynes, Chris, subject of Berryman’s Sonnets.
Hoagland, Edward [“Ted”] Hoagland (b. 1932), essayist and nonfiction writer.
Hodgson, Aurelia Bolliger (1898–1988), teacher and missionary; she married the poet Ralph Hodgson in 1933.
Horrell, Joseph, poet and independent scholar.
Howard, Jane (1935–1996), journalist and author.
Jarrell, Mary [née Mary von Schrader] (1914–2007), writer and editor.
Jarrell, Randall (1914–1965), poet and critic.
Justice, Donald (1925–2004), poet.
Kahler, Erich (1885–1970), cultural historian associated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Kessler, Milton (1930–2000), poet and professor of English at Binghamton University.
Kilmartin, Terence (1922–1991), literary editor of The Observer.
Kizer, Carolyn (1925–2014), poet and founding editor of Poetry Northwest.
Laughlin, James (1914–1997), publisher and poet.
Levertov, Denise (1923–1997), poet and poetry editor of The Nation.
Levine, Elizabeth Ann [later Ann Berryman] (1939–2013), a graduate student at the University of Minnesota when she met JB, whom she married in 1956. She later became managing editor of the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book collections.
Levine, Philip (1928–2015), poet.
Linebarger, J. M. (b. 1934), professor of English and author of John Berryman (Twayne, 1974).
Little, Martha May Shaver (1863–1948), JB’s maternal grandmother.
Lowell, Robert [“Cal”] (1917–1977), poet.
Lynch, William, SJ (1908–1987), Jesuit priest and writer.
Mabry, Thomas (1903–1968), instructor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the mid-1950s.
Macdonald, Dwight (1906–1982), writer, editor, and social critic.
Macdonald, Nancy [née Nancy Gardiner Rodman] (1910–1996), activist and author.
MacNeice, Louis (1907–1963), Northern Irish poet and critic.
Marshall, Margaret (1900–1974), editor.
Marshall, John (1903–1980), administrator in the Humanities Division at the Rockefeller Foundation.
Mayewski, Paweł (1920–1991), editor of the Polish-language journal Tematy.
Meredith, William (1919–2007), poet.
Merrill, James (1926–1995), poet.
Moe, Henry Allen (1894–1975), administrator of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Moers, Ellen (1928–1979), writer and literary scholar.
Monteith, Charles (1921–1995), publisher and editor.
Moos, Malcolm [“Mac”] (1916–1982), president of the University of Minnesota.
Morgan, Frederick (1922–2004), founder and editor of The Hudson Review.
Morrison, Theodore [“Ted”] (1901–1988), professor of English at Harvard University and director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Morse, Samuel French (1916–1985), poet; editor of Twentieth Century Verse.
Moses, W. R. (1911–2001), poet and an editor of Accent.
Munford, Howard (1912–2008), professor of American literature at Middlebury College.
Myers, John Bernard (1920–1987), administrator for the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Oates, Whitney Jennings [“Mike”] (1904–1973), professor of Classics at Princeton.
O’Donnell, George Marion (1914–1962), poet and literary critic.
Ogden, C. K. (1889–1957), linguist and philosopher.
Olson, Charles (1910–1970), poet.
Ostroff, Anthony [“Tony”] (1923–1978), poet and anthologist; professor in the Speech Department at Berkeley.
Paige, D. D. (c. 1919–1983), editor of The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907–1941 (1950).
Phillips, Anita [née Maximilian] (b. 1933), writer.
Pound, Ezra (1885–1972), poet and critic.
Pound, Dorothy [née Shakespeare] (1886–1973), English artist.
Powers, J. F. (1917–1999), novelist.
Rago, Henry (1915–1969), poet and editor of Poetry magazine.
Rainer, Dachine [born Sylvia Newman] (1921–2000), writer and anarchist.
Rice, Philip Blair (1904–1956), editor of the Kenyon Review.
Rich, Adrienne (1929–2012), poet and essayist.
Rosenzweig, Harriet Nadell (b. ?1938), undergraduate and then graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
Ross, Ralph (1911–2000), philosopher; chair of the Humanities program at the University of Minnesota.
Rowse, A. L. (1903–1997), English scholar and historian.
Ryan, Richard (b. 1946), Irish diplomat and poet.
Schwartz, Delmore (1913–1966), poet and writer.
Shahn, Ben (1898–1969), artist and illustrator.
Shapiro, Karl (1913–2000), poet; editor at Poetry magazine.
Shawn, William (1907–1992), editor of The New Yorker.
Silkin, Jon (1930–1997), British poet; founder of Stand Magazine.
Silvers, Robert (1929–2017), one of the founders of The New York Review of Books.
Simpson, Eileen [born Eileen Patricia Mulligan; called “Rusty” and “Broom” by JB] (1918–2002), psychotherapist and writer.
Sisam, Kenneth (1887–1971), Anglo-Saxon scholar; secretary with Oxford University Press.
Sloane, William (1906–1974), editor and publisher.
Smith, Datus C. (1907–1999), director of Princeton University Press.
Smith, Harrison (1888–1971), editor of the Saturday Review of Literature.
Smith, John Allyn (1887–1926), JB’s father, a banker for much of his career.
Snodgrass, W. D. (1926–2009), poet.
Spender, Stephen (1909–1995), English poet and critic.
Stallman, R. W. (1911–1982), professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
Starrett, Charles Vincent (1886–1974), journalist and author.
Steeves, Harrison R. (1881–1981), professor of English at Columbia University.
Stegner, Wallace (1909–1993), novelist and nonfiction writer.
Stevens, David (1884–1980), administrator with the Rockefeller Foundation.
Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955), poet.
Stewart, Helen, editor at Henry Holt and at William Sloane Associates.
Stewart, Thomas A. (b. 1948), undergraduate writer for The Harvard Advocate in the late 1960s.
Stewart, Walter W. (1885–1958), investment banker, economist, and trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Stiehl, Harry (1927–2001), editor of Ramparts.
Stitt, Peter (1940–2018), poet, essayist, and professor.
Stoneburner, Tony (b. 1926), a PhD student at the University of Michigan in the early 1960s; later a professor of English.
Straus, Roger (1917–2004), cofounder of Farrar, Straus and Company.
Sullivan, Nancy (1929–2018), poet and professor based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Swan, Emma (1914–2015), poet; she was briefly considered for inclusion in Laughlin’s Five Young American Poets project.
Sweeney, John Lincoln [“Jack”] (1906–1986), curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University.
Tate, Allen (1899–1979), poet and literary critic.
Thomes, A. Boyd (1916–2004), JB’s doctor and friend.
Thomes, Maris McQuarrie (1916–1997), friend of JB; artist and community activist.
Thomes, Steven; Charles; Eugenie [“Peachy”]; and Katherine [“Katie”]: children of Boyd and Maris Thomes.
Thompson, Edmund B. (1897–1974), printer and publisher.
Thorp, Margaret Farrand (1891–1970), journalist and writer of nonfiction.
Thorp, Willard (1899–1990), a professor of English at Princeton.
Trueblood, Valerie (b. 1944), novelist and short story writer.
Untermeyer, Louis (1885–1977), poet and anthologist.
Van Doren, Mark (1894–1972), poet, literary critic, and professor of English at Columbia.
Vaudrin, Philip (c. 1905–1956), editor.
Wang, Arthur (1918–2005), cofounder of Hill and Wang publishing company.
Warren, Robert Penn (1905–1989), poet and literary critic.
Weiss, Renée Karol (b. 1923), teacher and editor.
Weiss, Theodore (1916–2003), professor of English at Bard College, editor, and poet.
White, Katharine (1892–1977), editor at The New Yorker.
Whittemore, Reed (1919–2012), poet, literary critic, and an editor at The New Republic.
Wilbur, Richard (1921–2017), poet.
Williams, Ames W. (1912–1991), bibliographer of Stephen Crane.
Williams, Oscar (1900–1964), poet, editor, and anthologist.
Wilson, Edmund (1895–1972), critic and writer.
Wilson, Elena [née Mumm] (1906–1979), editor of Edmund Wilson’s posthumous work.
Wright, James (1927–1980), poet and teacher.