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Keynote Address: Sam Weller, Ray Bradbury Biographer
No full textA keynote address will be given on November 4th at 6 p.m. in Engbretson Hall, delivered by authorized Ray Bradbury biographer, Sam Weller.
Weller, who resides in Chicago, wrote The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, which became was a Los Angeles Times best seller, winner of the 2005 Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Biography, and a Bram Stoker Award finalist. He has given over 250 talks worldwide, and currently teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.
The companion book, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, was published by Melville House/Stop Smiling Books in 2010. With Mort Castle, Weller co-edited the anthology Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (William Morrow Paperbacks, July 2012), winner of the Bram Stoker Award for “Superior Achievement in Anthology.”
Weller is the former Midwest Correspondent for Publishers Weekly magazine. He has written for the Paris Review, the National Public Radio Program All Things Considered, and Slate magazine. His short fiction has appeared in numerous books and journals. Weller is a frequent lecturer on the life and legacy of Ray Bradbury. He has given over 250 talks worldwide. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago
No. 87, Samuel Weller, interview by Everett L. Cooley
No full textTranscript (46, 49, 24 pages) of two interviews by Everett L. Cooley with Sam Weller, owner of Zion bookstore in Salt Lake City, on October 28 and November 4, 1983. This interview is no. 87 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. U-374, U-375, and U-376Weller (b. 1921) recalls his early life in Germany and later in Salt Lake City; the establishment of Zions Book Store in 1929 by his father, Gustave Weller; his marriage and business partnership with his wife, Lila; and his career as a bookseller and proprietor of Zions Book Store, 1940s-1980s. Interviewer: Everett L. Coole
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Mr. Pickwick Playbill (Sam Weller)
No full textSam Weller illustration with accompanying lyrics on page 3 of a playbill for De Wolf Hopper & Co.'s musical production of "Mr. Pickwick"
Olive\u27s Profession, Sam Weller\u27s Bookstore
No full textBlack and white photograph of Sam Weller\u27s bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah
Stan Layton at Sam Weller\u27s Bookstore book signing
No full textStan Layton at Sam Weller\u27s Bookstore signing book on violence in Utah
Letter from Hayao (Sam) Chuman to the American Friends Service Committee
No full textA letter from Hayao (Sam) Chuman to the American Friends Service Committee, donating a portion of his redress check from the U.S. government to the Committee.The Chuman (Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko) Papers documents the World War II experiences of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, who were Kibei Nisei born in the United States but grew up and completed school in Japan, and then returned to the U.S. prior to the war. It chronicles the Chuman's incarceration from the Santa Anita Assembly Center, through Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and the Santa Fe and Crystal City internment camps as well as their struggle for restoring their U.S. citizenships in the 1960s. The digital collection consists of mostly textual material, including correspondence, affidavits, incarceration camp records, lease agreements, financial documents, receipts, pamphlets, and booklets
Letter from Hayao (Sam) Chuman to Earl Warren and "Attorney General Clark"
No full textA letter from Hayao (Sam) Chuman to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren and "Attorney General Clark". The letter is a request to regain his citizenship after renouncing his U.S. citizenship and requesting repatriation to Japan during his time incarcerated in World War II.The Chuman (Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko) Papers documents the World War II experiences of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, who were Kibei Nisei born in the United States but grew up and completed school in Japan, and then returned to the U.S. prior to the war. It chronicles the Chuman's incarceration from the Santa Anita Assembly Center, through Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and the Santa Fe and Crystal City internment camps as well as their struggle for restoring their U.S. citizenships in the 1960s. The digital collection consists of mostly textual material, including correspondence, affidavits, incarceration camp records, lease agreements, financial documents, receipts, pamphlets, and booklets
Samuel Weller, fishmonger
No full textThe article explains how Charles Dickens may have encountered Samuel Weller, a defendant in the Birnie v Eliot and Weller case, which was heard at the Arches Court at Doctors Commons in early 1831 when Dickens was working there as a law reporter. The fact that Samuel Weller was a fishmonger with a Cockney accent gives credence to the scholar Cuthbert Bede’s hypothesis that the speech of Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers is based on the aphoristic style of the 1820’s comedian Sam Vale (known as “Valerisms”) because the Cockney accent adds a distinctive voice to the Valerisms with which Dickens was already familiar, as well as providing a name and surname that resembled “Sam Vale”. Sam Weller’s name and speech style may thus have emerged as a representation of the Cockney fishmonger, Samuel Weller, which blended a distinctive accent (/v/-/w/ slippage) with the aphoristic comparisons (Valerisms) that were already part of the vernacular in Surrey and London during the 1820’s
Sam Weller and Preston Dee Linford on stage, the musical "Guys and Dolls"
No full textBlack and white photograph of Sam Weller and Preston Dee Linford with unidentified actors on stage, for the musical "Guys and Dolls," Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah
Sam "Kangaroo"
No full textabstract: Sam left Sudan when he was six years old. He also witnessed many people die when they tried to cross the Gilo river.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 23Region: Upper Nile (Bor)This picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
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