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Purchase 1999.
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[Item], Tevis mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Author.
Consists primarily of the writings of author Walter S. Tevis, 1928-1984. Tevis wrote several novels, and contributed numerous short stories and articles to magazines. A number of his novels have been adapted for film, including:
The Writings are arranged as follows: Published novels, unpublished novels, articles, childhood writings, literary criticism, a play, poetry, published book of short stories, other published short stories, unpublished short stories, and fragments of works. Photocopies of articles about Tevis and his writings complete the collection.
Arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
The Writings are arranged as follows: Novels - published and unpublished; articles; childhood writings; literary criticism; plays; poetry; short stories - published and unpublished; and fragments of works. Three magazines containing articles and photocopies of several articles all concerning Tevis and his writings complete the collection.
Published novels are arranged by various forms of the book from original manuscript to drafts to galleys, followed by related notes, outlines, synopses, ending with alternate forms of the book, such as plays, screenplays or teleplays. Drafts and related materials of unpublished novels are filed at the end of this section.
1)"Harrison [Starr, film producer] says..."; 2) "A novel is a story and a story has direction...."