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{"value"=>"Barbara Jones editorial files related to Paul Auster"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Paul Auster (1947-2023) was an American writer, poet, filmmaker, and translator whose work often touched on themes of coincidence, chance, memory, and solitude. Barbara Jones is an executive editor at Henry Holt & Company, who served as Auster's editor for many years. The Barbara Jones editorial files related to Paul Auster, dating from 2005 to 2023, detail Jones's editing of Auster's works. The collection is represented through drafts, notes, correspondence, proofs, and marketing reports."}
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{"value"=>"Jones, Barbara", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Barbara Jones is an executive editor at Henry Holt & Company, where she acquires and edits books of fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction. She was Paul Auster's editor for many years. Prior to Henry Holt, Jones served as editorial director for Hyperion Books and the imprint Voice, and as an editor at the magazines <span class=\"title\">Harper's</span>, <span class=\"title\">Grand Street</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Vogue</span>.</p> <p>Paul Auster (1947-2024) was a Brooklyn-based novelist, filmmaker, poet, essayist, and translator. He is best-known for <span class=\"title\">The New York Trilogy</span>, a series of three loosely linked novellas published separately in 1985 and 1986, and for his subsequent novels <span class=\"title\">In the Country of Last Things</span>, <span class=\"title\">Moon Palace</span>, <span class=\"title\">Mr. Vertigo</span>, and <span class=\"title\">4 3 2 1</span>. In these novels and others, Auster's protagonists, frequently writers and Brooklynites themselves, struggle to find meaning in lives set adrift by coincidence and tragedy. These themes resonate throughout Auster's fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Barbara Jones editorial files related to Paul Auster, dating from 2005 to 2023, detail Jones's editing of Auster works. The collection is represented through drafts, notes, correspondence, proofs, marketing reports, and contracts. Files are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by Auster general files, Auster ephemera, and non-Auster material.</p> <p>Auster works represented include the novel <span class=\"title\">4 3 2 1</span>; the memoirs <span class=\"title\">Report from the Interior</span> and <span class=\"title\">Winter Journal</span>; Auster's biography of Stephen Crane, <span class=\"title\">Burning Boy</span>; and graphic novel adaptations of <span class=\"title\">The New York Trilogy</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Barbara A. Jones, 2024.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Christopher Arena in 2025.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Paul Auster papers, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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2005
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2005
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2023
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2005
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2023
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1.67 linear feet (4 boxes)
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{"value"=>"Barbara Jones editorial files related to Paul Auster, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}