Eisenberg mss., 1964-2006
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
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Creator
Eisenberg, Deborah
TitleEisenberg mss., 1964-2006
Collection No.
LMC 2689
Extent
1,000 items
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Consists of manuscript drafts, notes,
galley proofs, correspondence and other materials pertaining to author and
playwright Deborah Eisenberg (born 1945).
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Writings; II.
Correspondence; III. Biographical Materials; IV. Business Records; V.
Miscellaneous.
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.
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Indexing Terms
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Names
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Eisenberg, Deborah --Correspondence.
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Atlas,
James.
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Avedon,
Richard.
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Beattie,
Ann.
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Hills, L.
Rust.
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Himsel,
Angela.
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Lambert,
Verity.
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Lucas,
Craig.
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Martin,
Judith, 1938.
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Mosher,
Gregory.
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Naumann,
Michael, 1941-.
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Neuwald,
Ellen.
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Rosenwald, Nina.
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Shinder,
Jason, 1955-2008.
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Acquired: 2009
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however,
patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in
advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Eisenberg mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Processing InformationProcessed by Danielle Emerling.
Completed in 2011.
Series:
Box 1
Writings
Arranged alphabetically by title.
"Across the Lake," drafts, clipping, 1991-1993
(2 folders)
Air: 24 Hours, research materials,
undated
(4 folders)
Air: 24 Hours, draft, 1992, March
15
Air: 24 Hours, drafts, 1993,
undated
(3 folders)
Air: 24 Hours, art work, photographs
and slides, 1991-1992
All Around Atlantis, drafts,
1996
(4 folders)
All Around Atlantis, page proofs,
1997, April 8
(2 folders)
Box 2
Aperture Magazine essay, drafts,
1987
"Ashes and Diamonds," drafts,
clippings, 1995-2000
Book Reviews, drafts, clippings, 1999 , undated
"Broken Glass," draft, 1985
"A Cautionary Tale," drafts, proofs, 1985, December-1986,
January
"A Cautionary Tale," clippings, 1987, March 23
"The Custodian," drafts, 1990 ,
undated
"The Custodian," proofs, clippings, 1989 , 1990
"Days," drafts, undated
"Days" screenplay, draft, undated
"Diana Michener," draft, clipping, 1996, March
"The
Essays of Montaigne," drafts,
undated
"The Flaw in the Design," notebook, draft, 2005
"The Flaw in the Design," drafts, 2005, undated
(2 folders)
"Flotsam," page proofs, undated
"Francine Prose," drafts, clipping, 1993-1997
"The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor," drafts, 1994 , undated
(2 folders)
"The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor," page proofs, 1994, May 4
"The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor," clipping, 1994, Dec. 5
"Holy Week," drafts, 1990-1991 , undated
(3 folders)
Box 3
"In a Trance of Self," research materials, 1997
"In a Trance of Self," drafts, undated
"In a Trance of Self," page proofs, clipping, 1997
"In the Station," notebook, undated
"In the Station," drafts, 1990 , undated
"James Ivory and Ismail Merchant tell d. eisenberg all about
their Wild Party with Raquel," drafts, clipping, 1975
(2 folders)
"Katherine Mansfield," drafts, 1992
"The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki,"
drafts, undated
"Letter From New York," drafts, 1987, undated
"Like It or Not," Notes, drafts, clippings, 1998-2001 , undated
(2 folders)
"The List," clipping, 2003,
February 14
"Madness and Civilization: A History of
Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault," Drafts,
undated
"Mary Antin," clipping, 2003,
December 28
"Mermaids," drafts, 1994 ,
undated
(2 folders)
"The Mill on the Floss by George
Eliot," drafts, undated
"Mrs. Duke's Millions," typescript, undated
"Narrow Pieties," draft, clipping, 1989
"The Night is Dark and I am Far From
Home
by Jonathan Kozol," drafts, undated
"On
Mrs. Dalloway," drafts, page
proofs, 2003
Pastorale, drafts, clippings,
1981, January 6,
undated
(5 folders)
"The Poetry of George Herbert," drafts, undated
"Presents," notebooks, draft, clipping, 1987 , undated (2 folders)
"The Private Language Problem – A
Philosophical Dialogue
by John Turk Saunders and Donald F.
Henze," drafts, undated
Box 4
"Rafe's Coat," drafts, undated
"Resistance," drafts, page proofs, clippings, 1999 , undated
(2 folders)
"Revenge of the Dinosaurs," notes, drafts, proofs, 2003
"The Robbery," drafts, clippings, 1989 , undated
"Rosie Gets a Soul," drafts, 1995
(3 folders)
"Rosie Gets a Soul," page proofs, 1996, April 4
"Someone to Talk To," drafts, page proofs, clipping, 1992-1993
(2 folders)
"Some Other, Better Otto," notes, drafts, proofs, 2001–2002
(3 folders)
"Summer Before the Election, Fragments From a Diary," draft,
2004, July
"Symbol Systems," typescript, 1969
"Tlaloc's Paradise," drafts, clipping, 1992 , undated
Box 5
"Transactions in a Foreign Currency," drafts, 1985 , undated
(3 folders)
Transactions in a Foreign Currency,
proofs, 1985-1986
(4 folders)
"Twilight of the Superheroes," notebook, drafts, 2002-2004 , undated
(5 folders)
Twilight of the Superheroes, proofs,
2005, May 3
Twilight of the Superheroes, proofs,
2005, August 9
(2 folders)
Box 6
"Under the 82nd Airborne," drafts, proofs, 1988 , undated
(2 folders)
Under the 82nd Airborne, proofs,
1991
(2 folders)
Untitled Craig Lucas interview with Deborah Eisenberg, drafts,
1989
Untitled, drafts, 1996
Untitled, drafts, 1999
Untitled, drafts, 2001, September 26-October
29
Untitled, drafts, 2003, September
18 , undated
Untitled, drafts, undated
Untitled, notes, undated
Untitled, notebook, 1995
Untitled, notebook, 2000-2002
"Window," notes, drafts, proofs, 2002-2004
(3 folders)
Series:
Box 7
Correspondence
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic.
Agents and Lawyers, 1982-2000
Agents and Publishers, 1990-1995 , undated
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985-1987 , undated
Aperture Foundation, 1987-1988
Bomb, 1995-1997 , undated
Eisenberg-Bach, Susan, 1989,
October 17
Eisenberg, Deborah, 1987-2001 , undated
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Inc., 1983-1999 , undated
Film and Theater, 1981-2003 , undated
Flothuis, Mea, 1986, September 1-1989, December
26
Friends and Students, 1988-1999
Granta Books, 1997-1999 , undated
Greene, Elaine, 1985-1995
Howard, Richard, 1999, August
18
Journals and Magazines, 1982-2006 , undated
Kessel, Greer, 1998, April 24-May 15
Lucas, Craig, 1985, November 28-1994, May
2
Murro, Alice and Others, 1985, November 24-1986, June 21 ,
undated
Neuwald, Ellen, 1984-1989
The New Yorker, 1984-2000 , undated
Pastorale, 1982-1993 , undated
Personal, 1985-2005
Publishers and Agents, 1982-2003
Publishers and Editors, 1984-2000 , undated
Reader Mail, 1984-2004 , undated
(3 folders)
Red Hen Press, 1989-1999
Rowohlt [Verlag], 1988-1998 , undated
The Three Penny Review, 1992-2004
Tin House Magazine, 1999-2004
The Yale Review, 1992-2002
Unidentified, undated
(2 folders)
Series:
Box 7
Biographical Materials
The Woodstock Country School
Symposium, 1964
Series:
Box 8
Business Records
Includes proposals, bills, bank statements, and correspondence.
Awards, Grants and Honors, 1984-2003
(2 folders)
Contracts, 1982-2006
(2 folders)
The Rea Award, 1992-1993
Readings, 2006
Three Smiling Fools, 1976-1977
(2 folders)
Writing Offers, 1986-2000
Series:
Box 8
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous clippings and notes
(2 folders)