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Hassler, Jon

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933 - 20080320

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

An interview with Jon Hassler, 1990

 unspecified
Identifier: 2021-011.0016
Scope and Contents

Interview of fiction writer and St. John's University professor Jon Hassler, by Michael Powers. Includes a bibliography by Larry Dingman.

Dates: 1990

Bela Petheo Portrait, 1986; 2011

 File
Identifier: 2011-005.0001
Scope and Contents Bela Petheo Portrait Jon Hassler, 1986 oil on canvas. Reprinted from Book III 1976-84 (register of own work). Photocopy with explanatory note. Paper was cut vertically through note and is taped together. Jon Hassler, 1986 oil on canvas. Photocopy, with photocopy of letter from Bela Petheo to Peggy Roske, June 8, 2011. Explanatory note cut off, part missing....
Dates: 1986; 2011

Days like smoke: a Minnesota boyhood, 2021

 Item
Identifier: 2021-011.0017
Scope and Contents

Days like smoke: a Minnesota boyhood

Autobiography by St. John's University professor Jon Hassler. Published posthumously. Edited and with a foreword by Will Weaver.

Donated to the Archives by the publisher.

Dates: 2021

Dear James, 1993

 Item
Identifier: 2021-012.0002
Scope and Contents

In Dear James, a humorous novel by St. John's University professor Jon Hassler, Agatha McGee travels to Rome after her school closes, and unexpectedly runs into an old flame.

Dates: 1993

Four miles to Pinecone, 1977

 Item
Identifier: 2021-012.0003
Scope and Contents

Four miles to Pinecone is a novel for young adults by Jon Hassler. An incident at his uncle's isolated cabin causes a sixteen-year-old to reexamine his decision to keep silent about a robbery he witnessed. University Archives copy is inscribed by the author.

Dates: 1977

Hassler, Jon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC03
Scope and Contents

Collection includes drafts, galley proofs, press releases, and miscellanea related to Jon Hassler’s novels, plays, screenplays, and other works, some with handwritten revisions. Although mostly text documents, the collection does include a Staggerford High School t-shirt and a Hassler painting ("Galway Lighthouse #1").

Dates: 1981 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1997

Keepsakes & other stories, 1999

 unspecified
Identifier: 2021-011.0003
Scope and Contents

Keepsakes & other stories is a collection of short stories by St. John's University English professor Jon Hassler.

Dates: 1999

Keepsakes & other stories, 1999

 Item
Identifier: 2021-011.0004
Scope and Contents

Keepsakes & other stories is a collection of short stories by St. John's University English professor Jon Hassler.

Dates: 1999

My Staggerford journal, 1999

 unspecified
Identifier: 2021-011.0014
Scope and Contents

In My Staggerford journal, St. John's professor Jon Hassler shows the process of writing his novel Staggerford through his diary entries.

Dates: 1999

My Staggerford journal, 1999

 unspecified
Identifier: 2021-012.0018
Scope and Contents

In My Staggerford journal, St. John's professor Jon Hassler shows the process of writing his novel Staggerford through his diary entries. Archives copy inscribed by the author.

Dates: 1999

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 19
Collection 1
 
Subject
1. Minnesota--Social life and customs--Fiction. 4
1. College teachers--Fiction. 2. Fathers and sons--Fiction. 2
1. Hassler, Jon--Diaries. 2. Novelists, American--20th century--Diaries. 3. Staggerford (Minn. : Imaginary place) 4. Hassler, Jon. Staggerford. 5. City and town life in literature. 6. Fiction--Authorship. 2
1. Multiple sclerosis patients--Fiction. 2. Friendship--Fiction. 3. Male friendship--Fiction. 4. Man-woman relationships--Fiction. 5. Minnesota--Fiction. 6. Medical novels. 2
1. St. John's University (Collegeville, Minn.)--Pictorial works. 2. St. John's Abbey (Collegeville, Minn.)--Pictorial works. 2