Records, 1992-2002.

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Records, 1992-2002.

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This collection (00-306) (4150 items, dated 1992-1996) documents the founding of the company. Many files mention editor and president Sarah Gorham and include start-up files, correspondence and author files, marketing materials, financial records, and other materials generated by the press. Also includes Gorham's memoir written during the first days of the press; files on prizes offered by the press (the Mary McCarthy Prize for short fiction and the Kathryn A. Morthon Prize for poetry); correspondence with authors Jane Mead, Lee Martin, Richard Frost, Sharon Bryan, Laura Jenson, Medbh McGuckian, and Liliana Ursu; and correspondence with Sallie Bingham about the formation of the press. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. The addition (01-022) (2911 items, 4.4 linear feet; dated 1996-1997) continues to document the company's activities. Materials include correspondence files; author files; sales and marketing files; 24 color and 4 black-and-white photographs; 11 electronic (computer) files; and material relating to Sarabande's non-profit operations from 1996 to 1997. Much of the correspondence tracks letters to and from Sallie Bingham and Sarah Gorham. Authors represented include Dick Allen, Brian Griffin, Sharon Solwitz, Belle Waring, and Baron Wormser. The addition 02-062 (2260 items, 6.3 linear feet; dated 1996-1998)comprises primarily author binders, files, and correspondence (1996-1998); and marketing and sales records, including examples of advertisements and reviews (1998). Also includes correspondence between Sallie Bingham and Sarah Gorham (1998); poetry and fiction galleys; documents related to the press' nonprofit activities, including 2 audio cassette tapes and paper records documenting board meetings (1998); 2 color and 10 black-and-white photographs and 1 black-and-white negative; and 18 electronic (computer) files originally received on one 3.5" diskette. Authors represented include Becky Hagenston, James Kimbrell, Stefanie Marlis, Shara McCallum, Jean Valentine, and Kate Walbert. Addition (03-021)(2300 items, 5.3 lin. ft.; dated 1995-2002) consists largely of author files (1997-2000) and printed material comprising journals and review publications (1998-1999). Also includes office correspondence (1995-2002); sales analyses, grant proposals, and marketing files (1996-2001); and documents related to conferences and events, special projects, board meetings, and nonprofit activities.

13938 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8242688

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Marlis, Stefanie, 1951-

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Bingham, Sallie

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American author. From the description of After such knowledge [manuscript], 1960. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806189 Feminist and author. From the description of Sallie Bingham papers, 1930-2011 and undated (bulk 1940s-2000s) (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 37869800 From the description of Sallie Bingham papers, 1900-2003 and undated (bulk [1940s]-1998). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 83772096 ...

Lee, Martin P

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Griffin, Brian, 1957-

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Sarabande Books

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Sarabande Books is a non-profit literary press that publishes poetry and fiction. It was established in 1994 by Sarah Gorham in Louisville, Ky. From the description of Sarabande Books records, 1992-2011. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344994 From the description of Records, 1992-2002. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 80303604 Sarabande Books is a non-profit literary press publishing poetry and fiction. It was established in 1994 by Sa...

Skinner, Jeffrey

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Walbert, Kate, 1961-....

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Solwitz, Sharon, 1945-

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Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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Bryan, Sharon

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Halme, Kathleen

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Waring, Belle, 1951-

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Ursu, Liliana, 1949-....

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Wormser, Baron

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McGuckian, Medbh, 1950-....

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Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, Belfast, in 1972 and earned her Masters in Arts from the same institution two years later. McGuckian won the National Poetry Competition prize in 1979 for "The Flitting," and she published her first two collections of poetry, Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980. Among her most recent collections are Had I a Thousand Lives, The Book of the Angel...

Gorham, Sarah, 1954-

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Calbert, Cathleen

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Allen, Dick, 1939-

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Frost, Richard, 1929-

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Valentine, Jeanette

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Jean Valentine was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 27, 1934, to John and Jean Purcell Valentine. Later, the family moved to Massachusetts, where Valentine attended Milton Academy Girls School. In 1952 Valentine entered Radcliffe College, and majored in English. In December 1955, a Harvard University student publication, The Harvard Advocate, published her "Poem," which received a favorable review in The Harvard Crimson. Valentine graduated cum laude in 1956. Valentine married James Chase in ...

McCallum, Shara, 1972-

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Hagenston, Becky, 1967-

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Mead, Jane, 1958-

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