LOCATION:

Syracuse University; Syracuse, New York
Department of Special Collections
Sixth Floor E.S. Bird Library
Mon.-Fri. 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Collections (315) 443-2697
University Archives (315) 443-3335

SUMMARY:

Correspondence, journal, typescript and holograph manuscripts for essays, novels, plays, and poems; periodicals, photographs, reviews.

Incoming correspondence, 1970-1989, with photocopies of the outgoing typescript carbons which are filed with the journals. Family correspondence as well as that of literary agents, authors, critics, editors, novelists, and poets.

Business and personal correspondence, some in connection with the Ontario Review Press, and including that of Alice Adams, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Joe David Bellamy, Eileen Bender, Leigh Bienen, Marjorie Bitker, Eavan Boland, Robert Boyers, Frederick Buell, Edward Butscher, Hortense Calisher, Barry Callaghan, Hayden Carruth, Robert Coover, Frank Corsaro, Daniel Curzon, Nicholas Delbanco, Joan Didion, John Ditsky, William B. Ewert, Robert Fagles, Richard Ford, Lucinda Franks, Harold Fromm, George P. Garrett, Reginald Gibbons, John Gardner, Gail Godwin, William Goyen, Francine du Plessix Gray, Blanche Gregory, Daniel Halpern, Klaus Harpprecht, Jana Harris, William Heyen, Josephine Jacobsen, Greg Johnson, Edmund Keeley, Stephen Koch, Maxine Kumin, Stanley Kunitz, David Lehman, Ronald Levao, Philip Levine, John L'Heureux, Alistair MacLeod, Norman Mailer, Barry Malzberg, Jerome Mazzaro, Perry Meisel, Lee Milazzo, Mary Morris, Alicia Ostriker, Cynthia Ozick, Robert S. Phillips, John Reed, Philip Roth, Neil Rudenstine, David Shapiro, Susan Sontag, Donald Stanford, Richard Trenner, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Diane Wakoski, Gloria Whelan, Colin Wilson, and others.

Writings include novels, scripts, and stories in manuscript, as well as a journal, 1973-1989.

NOTES:

Restricted.

ACCESS:

The collections are available to all members of the Syracuse University community, as well as to visiting scholars. First-time users register at the Special Collections information desk, showing two forms of personal identification. The staff will assist in the use of finding aids and retrieve all materials. Materials must be used in the Special Collections Reading Room, and are not available for borrowing.