Call Number:

Ms. Coll. 1001

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

0.2 linear feet (1 box)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Desmond Meiring papers, 1963-1970, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Date:

1963-1970 (inclusive)

Creator:

Meiring, Desmond

Form:

Drafts (documents), Correspondence, and Typescripts

Abstract:

Desmond Meiring (born 1924) is the pen name of Desmond Rice, a Kenyan-born author of more than a dozen works. The collection contains manuscripts for four of Meiring's works, as well as a letter to Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster containing revisions to The Wall of Glass.

Desmond Meiring, born in 1924, is the pen name of Desmond Charles Rice, a Kenyan-born British author of more than a dozen works. During his active career, he worked as a policeman, journalist, and oil company executive, as well as an author. Some of his best-known works include The Brinksman, A Talk with the Angels and The Man with No Shadow. Topics addressed in Meiring's novels include world tension concentrated in Laos from 1959 to 1960, Middle Eastern politics, the Arab-Israeli conflict, terrorists, and Islam, to name only a few.

The collection contains manuscripts for four of Meiring's works, as well as a letter to Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster containing revisions to The Wall of Glass. Manuscripts included are: The Brinkman, Dasturi, A Square Called Silence, and The Wall of Glass. All manuscripts are typed, and both The Brinkman and A Square Called Silence are annotated, presumably with Meiring's notes and corrections. The material is arranged alphabetically by title of novel.