Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Papers of Ann Beattie, Accession #10414-w, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was deposited on 1992 April 16.

Scope and Content Information

Papers contain typescripts of Picturing Will, and short stories "Distant music," "Nineteen years," "The sweetest song," "Windy day at the resevoir," and "The working girl," together with a letter from Robert Shapard and one from Rust Hills on editorial matters.

With these are manuscripts or proofs of books by other authors: As much as I know by Susan Thames, Extraordinary people by Paul Gervais, Getting Jesus in the mood by Anne Brashler, The phoenix tree and other storie s by Satoko Kizaki, Plain grief by Maxine Chernoff, Such a lovely couple by Linda Yellin, Under the light by Sam Michel, After moondog by Jane Shapiro, The brothers K by David James Duncan, And the desert shall blossom by Phyllis Barber.

Also The elephant by Richard Rayner, The evening star by Larry McMurtry, Final heat by Philip Lee Williams, The late night muse by Better Pesetsky, The patron saint of liars by Ann Patchett, Secret anniversaries by Scott Spencer, The sun maiden by Erika Taylor, Touching the rock: an experience of blindness by John M. Hull, and The tree of knowledge by Eva Figes.