Paul Auster Papers, 1963-1995 (bulk 1972-mid-1995)

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Creator

Paul Auster, 1947-

Location

Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Extent

• 79 manuscript boxes (33 linear ft.)

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Scope/Contents Notes

The archive contains material related to the publication of the three novellas comprising The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room); In the Country of Last Things, The Music of Chance, and Moon Palace; material related to the poetry books Unearth, White Spaces,Facing the Music, and Disappearances, and to a volume of poems and essays, Ground Work. The archive is rich in Auster's early translation work, and in early writings composed while an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University, as well as the years after his graduation, spent in France.

Present, too, is correspondence from writers, including Charles Baxter, Samuel Beckett, Don DeLillo, Larry Eigner,David Gascoyne, and John Hollander.

Biographical/Historical Note

Paul Auster (b. 1947) is a Brooklyn-based novelist, screenplay writer, poet, essayist and translator.

Controlled Access Term

• Auster, Paul, 1947-

Additional Creator Names

• Baxter, Charles, 1947-
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
• DeLillo, Don.
• Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996.
• Gascoyne, David, 1916-2001.
• Hollander, John.
• Ashbery, John, 1927-
• Banks, Russell, 1940-
• Bronk, William.
• Bly, Robert.
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
• Coolidge, Clark, 1939-
• Merrill, James, 1926-1995.
• Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
• Padgett, Ron, 1942-
• Petit, Philippe.
• Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004.
• Royet-Journoud, Claude.
• Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.
• Spiegelman, Art.
• Simic, Charles, 1938-
• Waldrop, Keith.
• Waldrop, Rosmarie.
• Wilbur, Richard, 1921-