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Subjects include West's time at East Bank High School; his college recruitment and basketball career at WVU; his employment with the Lakers; the \u003ctitle\u003eWest by West\u003c/title\u003e book; West's career as a basketball coach for the Lakers and manager for the Memphis Grizzlies; his family life; events honoring West; various individuals, including Chick Hearn, Rodney \"Hot Rod\" Hundley, Ann Dinardi, Jerry's brother David West, and the West and Creasey families; and other subjects. See the Scope and Content Note for more details. For more information on Jerry West, see the Historical Note.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of basketball icon Jerry West and research papers of author Jonathan Coleman for his collaboration on the autobiography of West. 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Jerry West, born in Chelyan, West Virginia in 1938, played basketball for West Virginia University (WVU) and rose to fame as a player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) before turning to basketball coaching and management. The collection includes materials that West loaned to Coleman for use in co-authoring the book \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eWest by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life\u003c/emph\u003e, as well as Coleman's book drafts, various materials he collected for background research, interviews he conducted for the book, and his research notes. Formats include correspondence, ephemera, typescript and printed book draft manuscripts, clippings, printed material, photographs, video and audio recordings on various media, artifacts, scrapbooks, and digital files, among other materials. 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