Correspondence : 1927-1987 / Joseph Campbell ; edited by Evans Lansing Smith, PhD, and Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Letter writing: the imagination's personal genre / by Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD -- Joseph Campbell's correspondence: a portrait of an epoch / by Evans Lansing Smith, PhD -- Joseph Campbell: seventy years of making myths; an interview with D.J.R. Bruckner -- Wanderings: Paris to Pacific Grove -- The 1940s: decade mirabilis -- The 1950s: the banquet years -- The masks of god -- Political matters: Thomas Mann to the Vietnam War -- The 1970s and the mythic image -- The last decade -- Coda: testimonials and condolences.

"A collection of letters to and from the American academic and writer Joseph Campbell; includes correspondence with notable thinkers such as Thomas Mann, Carl Gustav Jung, Margaret Mead, Mircea Eliade, Alan Watts, and Gary Snyder"-- Provided by publisher.