Tage La Cour collection of popular fiction

In 1979 the Special Collections acquired the "Tage La Cour Collection of Detective Fiction and Entertainments." This, the personal library of Crime Fiction Author Tage La Cour, library is comprised of detective novels, western novels, science fiction, and other works which would be classified as entertainments. The authors represented range from P. G. Wodehouse, Robert Coover, and Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, Dashiel Hammett, and Ian Fleming; from Zane Grey, O. Henry, and Mark Twain to Arthur Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Fredrick Pohl. The collection includes many items which are now difficult to obtain. The research potential of this collection would not be underestimated considering the influx of structuralist critical attention to popular fiction. Entertainment fiction as a genre is a part of popular culture, and this collection offers a substantial resource to the perceptive student.