Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Eisenberg, Deborah
- Abstract:
- Consists of manuscript drafts, notes, galley proofs, correspondence and other materials pertaining to author and playwright Deborah Eisenberg (born 1945).
- Extent:
- 9 Boxes
- Language:
- Materials are in English
- Preferred citation:
[Item], Eisenberg mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
Deborah Eisenberg (born 1945) is the author of four highly-regarded collections of stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). Her first two story collections were republished in one volume as The Work (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg (1997). She has also written a play, Pastorale, which was produced at Second Stage in New York City in 1982. Eisenberg was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2000, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2011 (for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (2010), a compendium of her four previous collections). Her other honors include a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three O. Henry Awards. She has written for such magazines as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review. Eisenberg taught creative writing at the University of Virginia from 1994-2011, and announced in July 2011 that she will be joining the MFA Writing Program faculty at Columbia University.
- Scope and Content:
The collection consists of manuscript drafts, notes, galley proofs, correspondence and other materials pertaining to author and playwright Deborah Eisenberg. Writings include notes, drafts, page proofs, and clippings related to Eisenberg's short stories and story collections. Correspondents include James Atlas, Richard Avedon, Ann Beattie, L. Rust Hills, Angela Himsel, Verity Lambert, Craig Lucas, Judith Martin, Gregory Mosher, Michael Naumann, Ellen Neuwald, Nina Rosenwald, and Jason Shinder.
Biographical Materials include a Woodstock Country School 1964 graduation booklet, alumni correspondence and directory. Business Records pertain to publishing contracts, readings, writing offers, and the Three Smiling Fools literary newsletter. Miscellaneous contains notes, clippings and print-outs of artwork by Jennifer Bartlett.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired: 2009
- Processing information:
Processed by Danielle Emerling.
Completed in 2011.
- Arrangement:
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Writings; II. Correspondence; III. Biographical Materials; IV. Business Records; V. Miscellaneous.
- Physical location:
- ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility)
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Authors, American--Correspondence
- Names:
- Eisenberg, Deborah --Correspondence.
Atlas, James.
Avedon, Richard.
Beattie, Ann.
Hills, L. Rust.
Himsel, Angela.
Lambert, Verity.
Lucas, Craig.
Martin, Judith, 1938.
Mosher, Gregory.
Naumann, Michael, 1941-.
Neuwald, Ellen.
Rosenwald, Nina.
Shinder, Jason, 1955-2008.
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is open for research.
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- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Photography and digitization may be restricted for some collections. Copyright restrictions may apply. Before publishing, researchers are responsible for securing permission from all applicable rights holders, then filling out the Permission to Publish form.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Item], Eisenberg mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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1200 East Seventh StreetBloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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(812) 855-2452liblilly@indiana.edu