Scope and Contents The Mark Dintenfass Papers, 1957-2020 (bulk 1963-2006), document Dintenfass’s professions as both a fiction author and a professor of English at Lawrence University. The collection primarily contains manuscripts and documents about his published and unpublished writings, materials from his time as an English professor and theater director at Lawrence University (1968-2006), and correspondence with various colleagues, students, publishers, friends and family.