The Paris Review archives, 1953-1997.

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The Paris Review archives, 1953-1997.

Correspondence, typescripts, and galley proofs of several hundred writers; editorial, production, and business correspondence; and other records of the international literary journal from its founding in 1953 through 1997. Includes editorial correspondence of Donald Hall, Robert Silvers, Maxine Groffsky, and George Plimpton; and of magazine staff, editors, and publishers, including Sadruddin Aga Khan, Tom Clark, Blair Fuller, Jonathan Galassi, X.J. Kennedy, James Linville, Peter Matthiessen, Mona Simpson, and Hallie Gay Walden. Many writers are represented, including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Italo Calvino, Andrei Codrescu, Billy Collins, Ernest Hemingway, Fayette Hickox, Erica Jong, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Maxine Kumin, Archibald MacLeish, Norman Mailer, James Merrill, Marianne Moore, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth, Mary Lee Settle, Anne Sexton, Terry Southern, William Styron, John Updike, and Eudora Welty. Also included is substantive correspondence with literary agencies, including Candida Donadio & Associates, Inc. and IFA. The collection includes 75 audio tapes of interviews for the series Writers at Work [currently inaccessible pending preservation evaluation].

145 linear feet.

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