Paul Auster Papers
1963-1995 [bulk 1972-mid-1995]
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Auster, Paul, 1947-
Berg Coll MSS Auster Archive
33 linear feet (79 manuscript boxes)
Paul Auster Papers, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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The archive contains material related to the publication of the three novellas comprising The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room); In the Country of Last Things, The Music of Chance, and Moon Palace; material related to the poetry books Unearth, White Spaces, Facing the Music, and Disappearances, and to a volume of poems and essays, Ground Work. The archive is rich in Auster's early translation work, and in early writings composed while an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University, as well as the years after his graduation, spent in France.
Paul Auster (b. 1947) is a Brooklyn-based novelist, screenplay writer, poet, essayist and translator.
The archive contains material related to the publication of the three novellas comprising The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room); In the Country of Last Things, The Music of Chance, and Moon Palace; material related to the poetry books Unearth, White Spaces, Facing the Music, and Disappearances, and to a volume of poems and essays, Ground Work. The archive is rich in Auster's early translation work, and in early writings composed while an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University, as well as the years after his graduation, spent in France.|||Present, too, is correspondence from writers, including Charles Baxter, Samuel Beckett, Don DeLillo, Larry Eigner, David Gascoyne, and John Hollander.
Ashbery, John, 1927-
Banks, Russell, 1940-
Baxter, Charles, 1947-
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
Bly, Robert
Bronk, William
Coolidge, Clark, 1939-
Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Gascoyne, David, 1916-2001
Hollander, John
Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Padgett, Ron, 1942-
Petit, Philippe
Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004
Royet-Journoud, Claude
Simic, Charles, 1938-
Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995
Spiegelman, Art
Waldrop, Keith
Waldrop, Rosmarie
Wilbur, Richard, 1921-
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