The Flight of the Falcon

This collections documents the career of journalist and author Robert Lindsey. Materials are largely related to research for his various publications and collaborations, including The Falcon and the Snowman (1979), The Flight of the Falcon (1983), A Gathering of Saints (1988), An American Life (1990), Irresistible Impulse (1992), and Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994). Research materials inlcude news clippings, interview transcripts and recordings, correspondence, notes, photographs, and audio/visual materials. The collection also includes some working manuscripts and published copies of his books, as well as newsclippings of Lindsey's articles for The New York Times from 1968-1989 and The San Jose Mercury-News from 1959-1968.