Eisenberg mss., ca. 1964-2006

Creator: Eisenberg, Deborah
Title: Eisenberg mss.
Collection No.: LMC 2689
Dates: 1964-2006
Quantity:

Quantity: 9 Boxes

Abstract: Consists of manuscript drafts, notes, galley proofs, correspondence and other materials pertaining to author and playwright Deborah Eisenberg (born 1945).
Location: ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility)
Language: Materials are in English
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Biographical Note

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 Note

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.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: I. Writings; II. Correspondence; III. Biographical Materials; IV. Business Records; V. Miscellaneous.

Restrictions

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Indexed Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item], Eisenberg mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Acquisition Information

Acquired: 2009

Processing Information

Processed by Danielle Emerling.

Completed in 2011 .

Collection Inventory

Box 1

Series:

Writings

General: Arranged alphabetically by title.

Box 1
"Across the Lake" drafts, clipping , 1991-1993

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 1
Air: 24 Hours , research materials , undated

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 1
Air: 24 Hours , draft , 1992, March 15
Box 1
Air: 24 Hours , drafts , 1993, undated

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 1
Air: 24 Hours , art work, photographs and slides , 1991-1992
Box 1
All Around Atlantis , drafts , 1996

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 1
All Around Atlantis , page proofs , 1997, April 8

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 2
Aperture Magazine essay, drafts , 1987
Box 2
"Ashes and Diamonds ," drafts, clippings , 1995-2000
Box 2
Book Reviews, drafts, clippings , 1999, undated
Box 2
"Broken Glass" draft , 1985
Box 2
"A Cautionary Tale" drafts, proofs , 1985, December-1986, January
Box 2
"A Cautionary Tale" clippings , 1987, March 23
Box 2
"The Custodian ," drafts, , 1990, undated
Box 2
" The Custodian ," proofs, clippings, , 1989, 1990
Box 2
" Days ," drafts , undated
Box 2
" Days " screenplay, draft , undated
Box 2
" Diana Michener ," draft, clipping , 1996, March
Box 2
"The Essays of Montaigne," drafts , undated
Box 2
" The Flaw in the Design ," notebook, draft , 2005
Box 2
" The Flaw in the Design ," drafts, 2005 , undated

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 2
" Flotsam ," page proofs , undated
Box 2
" Francine Prose ," drafts, clipping , 1993-1997
Box 2
" The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor ," drafts, , 1994, undated

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 2
" The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor ," page proofs , 1994, May 4
Box 2
" The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor ," clipping , 1994, Dec. 5
Box 2
" Holy Week ," drafts, , 1990-1991, undated

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 3
" In a Trance of Self ," research materials , 1997
Box 3
" In a Trance of Self ," drafts , undated
Box 3
" In a Trance of Self ," page proofs, clipping , 1997
Box 3
" In the Station ," notebook , undated
Box 3
" In the Station ," drafts, , 1990, undated
Box 3
" James Ivory and Ismail Merchant tell d. eisenberg all about their Wild Party with Raquel ," drafts, clipping , 1975

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 3
" Katherine Mansfield ," drafts , 1992
Box 3
"The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki," drafts , undated
Box 3
" Letter From New York ," drafts, 1987 , undated
Box 3
" Like It or Not ," Notes, drafts, clippings, , 1998-2001, undated

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 3
" The List ," clipping , 2003, February 14
Box 3
"Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault," Drafts , undated
Box 3
" Mary Antin ," clipping , 2003, December 28
Box 3
" Mermaids ," drafts, , 1994, undated

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 3
"The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot," drafts , undated
Box 3
" Mrs. Duke's Millions ," typescript , undated
Box 3
" Narrow Pieties ," draft, clipping , 1989
Box 3
"The Night is Dark and I am Far From Home by Jonathan Kozol," drafts , undated
Box 3
"On Mrs. Dalloway ," drafts, page proofs , 2003
Box 3
Pastorale , drafts, clippings , 1981, January 6, undated

Physical Description: (5 folders)

Box 3
" The Poetry of George Herbert ," drafts , undated
Box 3
" Presents ," notebooks, draft, clipping, , 1987, undated (2 folders)
Box 3
"The Private Language Problem – A Philosophical Dialogue by John Turk Saunders and Donald F. Henze," drafts , undated
Box 4
" Rafe's Coat ," drafts , undated
Box 4
" Resistance ," drafts, page proofs, clippings, , 1999, undated

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 4
" Revenge of the Dinosaurs ," notes, drafts, proofs , 2003
Box 4
" The Robbery ," drafts, clippings, , 1989, undated
Box 4
" Rosie Gets a Soul ," drafts , 1995

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 4
" Rosie Gets a Soul ," page proofs , 1996, April 4
Box 4
" Someone to Talk To ," drafts, page proofs, clipping , 1992-1993

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 4
" Some Other, Better Otto ," notes, drafts, proofs , 2001–2002

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 4
" Summer Before the Election, Fragments From a Diary ," draft , 2004, July
Box 4
" Symbol Systems ," typescript , 1969
Box 4
" Tlaloc's Paradise ," drafts, clipping, , 1992, undated
Box 5
" Transactions in a Foreign Currency ," drafts, , 1985, undated

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 5
Transactions in a Foreign Currency , proofs , 1985-1986

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Box 5
" Twilight of the Superheroes ," notebook, drafts, , 2002-2004, undated

Physical Description: (5 folders)

Box 5
Twilight of the Superheroes , proofs , 2005, May 3
Box 5
Twilight of the Superheroes , proofs , 2005, August 9

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 6
" Under the 82nd Airborne ," drafts, proofs, , 1988, undated

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 6
Under the 82nd Airborne , proofs , 1991

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 6
Untitled Craig Lucas interview with Deborah Eisenberg, drafts , 1989
Box 6
Untitled, drafts , 1996
Box 6
Untitled, drafts , 1999
Box 6
Untitled, drafts , 2001, September 26-October 29
Box 6
Untitled, drafts , 2003, September 18, undated
Box 6
Untitled, drafts , undated
Box 6
Untitled, notes , undated
Box 6
Untitled, notebook , 1995
Box 6
Untitled, notebook , 2000-2002
Box 6
" Window ," notes, drafts, proofs , 2002-2004

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 7

Series:

Correspondence

General: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic.

Box 7
Agents and Lawyers , 1982-2000
Box 7
Agents and Publishers , 1990-1995, undated
Box 7
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 1985-1987, undated
Box 7
Aperture Foundation , 1987-1988
Box 7
Bomb , , 1995-1997, undated
Box 7
Eisenberg-Bach, Susan , 1989, October 17
Box 7
Eisenberg, Deborah , 1987-2001, undated
Box 7
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Inc. , 1983-1999, undated
Box 7
Film and Theater , 1981-2003, undated
Box 7
Flothuis, Mea , 1986, September 1-1989, December 26
Box 7
Friends and Students , 1988-1999
Box 7
Granta Books , 1997-1999, undated
Box 7
Greene, Elaine , 1985-1995
Box 7
Howard, Richard , 1999, August 18
Box 7
Journals and Magazines , 1982-2006, undated
Box 7
Kessel, Greer , 1998, April 24-May 15
Box 7
Lucas, Craig , 1985, November 28-1994, May 2
Box 7
Murro, Alice and Others , 1985, November 24-1986, June 21, undated
Box 7
Neuwald, Ellen , 1984-1989
Box 7
The New Yorker , , 1984-2000, undated
Box 7
Pastorale , , 1982-1993, undated
Box 7
Personal , 1985-2005
Box 7
Publishers and Agents , 1982-2003
Box 7
Publishers and Editors , 1984-2000, undated
Box 7
Reader Mail , 1984-2004, undated

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Box 7
Red Hen Press , 1989-1999
Box 7
Rowohlt [Verlag] , 1988-1998, undated
Box 7
The Three Penny Review , 1992-2004
Box 7
Tin House Magazine , 1999-2004
Box 7
The Yale Review , 1992-2002
Box 7
Unidentified , undated

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 7

Series:

Biographical Materials
Box 7
The Woodstock Country School Symposium , 1964
Box 8

Series:

Business Records

General: Includes proposals, bills, bank statements, and correspondence.

Box 8
Awards, Grants and Honors , 1984-2003

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 8
Contracts , 1982-2006

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 8
The Rea Award , 1992-1993
Box 8
Readings , 2006
Box 8
Three Smiling Fools , 1976-1977

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Box 8
Writing Offers , 1986-2000
Box 8

Series:

Miscellaneous

Physical Description: (2 folders)

General: Miscellaneous clippings and notes