Creador(es)
- Autor/a: Neumeyer, Peter
- Interviewer: Resnik, Susan
Fecha
14 de abril de 2010
Editor
The San Diego State University Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Ubicación física
The San Diego State University Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Institución custodia
San Diego State University
Idioma
English
Identificador local
NEUMEYER-2010
Title
Interview with Peter Neumeyer Ph.D., 2010
Creators and Contributors
- Author: Neumeyer, Peter
- Interviewer: Resnik, Susan
Date Issued
April 14th, 2010
Description
An oral history conducted by Susan Resnik, Ph.D. with former San Diego State University Professor Peter Neumeyer on April 12th and 14th, 2010. Neumeyer came to San Diego State University in 1978. At SDSU, he developed what has become the largest children's literature program in North America. Neumeyer has published extensively on children's literature topics, especially E.B. White, including The Annotated Charlotte's Web. Outside of academia, Neumeyer collaborated with illustrator and friend Edward Gorey on three books, the Donald and the... series. He is also a poet, and has published numerous poems in literary journals. After retirement from SDSU in 1993, Neumeyer became a prolific reviewer of children's books for various publications. In 2005, he received the Children's Literature Association's Anne Deveraux Jordan Award for his contributions to the field. In his oral history, Neumeyer focuses on his early childhood in Germany, and later Oakland, California. Of particular interest are his remembrances of growing up Jewish in Nazi Germany. He also reflects on his education at Berkeley and his professorships at Harvard, Stony Brook, and West Virginia. The second half of his oral history documents his time at San Diego State, the genesis of the children's literature program, the Green Tiger Press, and Neumeyer's contributions to children's literature, including his collaboration with Edward Gorey. This oral history was made possible by a grant from the John and Jane Adams Endowment for the Humanities and is part of the University Archives Multimedia Files Collection. Names mentioned during the interview include: Daniel Neumeyer, Helen Neumeyer, Quint Buchholz, Christopher Newmeyer, Karl Neumeyer, Anna Neumeyer, Fritz Neumeyer, Marianne Schnitger Weber, Josephine Duvanek, Toby Lawson, Dave McElhatton, Ann Cochran, Joan Mallory, Daniel Milhaud, Larry Sears, Willard Farnham, John Donne, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ian Watt, Jonas Barish, Frederick C. Crews, Howard Hugo, Alain Renoir, Hal Martin, Larry Benson, Al Sennett, David Swanger, Zachary Neumeyer, Max Bluestone, Wayne O'Neill, Francelia Butler, Vladimir Propp, Irving Ribner, Amy Neumeyer, Max Neumeyer, Joseph Neumeyer, Elise Neumeyer, Robbie Neumeyer, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, and Darius Milhaud.
Publisher
The San Diego State University Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Extent
6:35:39
Form
sound recording
Copyright
© San Diego State University. All rights reserved.
Held by
The San Diego State University Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Manuscript number
MS-0296
Owning institution
San Diego State University
Language
English
Local Identifier
NEUMEYER-2010
Related object
NEUMEYER-2010T