Manuscripts

Poster: Local and Vocal, L.A. Daily News advertisement for columnists

Description: The collection includes manuscripts for essays, novels, and monographs of collected columns as well as screenplays and television scripts. In the correspondence there is a large series of letters written by Al Martínez to his wife, while serving with the U.S. Marines in the Korean War. The voluminous ephemera include research materials and clippings of Martínez's columns through the years.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 2010
Call number: MZ 922
Creator: Martínez, Al(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Al Martínez, March 13, 2006.
Associated organization

First Place, Best Local Columnist, (Dailies) 75,001 and up circulation. 1987. California Newspaper Publishers Association

Manuscripts

The collection includes manuscripts for essays, novels, and monographs of collected columns as well as screenplays and television scripts. In the correspondence there is a large series of letters written by Al Martínez to his wife, while serving with the U.S. Marines in the Korean War. The voluminous ephemera include research materials and clippings of Martínez's columns through the years.

mssMZ 1-922

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