Ruth Prawer Jhabvala manuscripts, 1975-1976.

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala manuscripts, 1975-1976.

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Consists of autograph drafts for the following stories: "Desecration", "How I became a Holy Mother", "A Lost Cause", and the novel Heat and Dust. All of the above were written in three manuscript notebooks, with multiple notes and draft fragments tipped in.

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The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE was a German-born British and American author and screenwriter. Born in Cologne, Germany, she fled with her family under the Nazi Regime to Britain. After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England, she married him and moved to India in 1951. The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays, and eight collections of short stories....