{"value"=>"<p>These files comprise authors' editorial correspondence with Ecco staff, typescripts, third-party correspondence with authors' agents or estates, clippings, material pertaining to the publication of the authors' work, publicity photographs, and correspondence with Halpern on matters not directly related to Ecco business.</p> <p>Most of the authors represented by the author files are writers or artists who have either been published by Ecco Press or have contributed either to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> or to an anthology edited by Halpern. Most authors have only one file, his or her general file. Others, have a general file, which includes correspondence related to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span>, and book files. Book files comprise correspondence with authors, agents, and various third parties regarding editorial matters, readings, royalties, permissions, production, and publicity; editorial notes and queries from editors, copy-editors, and proof readers; drafts of flap jacket and back-cover copy; publicity photos; copyright registration; contracts and agreements; cover art and dust-jacket samples and proofs; clippings; draft fragments; manufacturing cost estimates; instructions to printers; Cataloging in Publication Data; royalty statements; book orders; copies of ads; style sheets; and reprint estimates. The editorial content of the book is kept in its own series (VI. Dead Matter). For other information and material regarding specific titles see also Advertising files (Box 72) and Stephen Morrow's files (Box 74), and Sales and Sales & Distribution records (Box 101-108).</p> <p>Most of the author correspondence is with Halpern and is not limited to Ecco business. Halpern taught poetry workshops, organized and took part in readings and other literary events, and submitted poetry of his own to journals edited by colleagues. These activities are reflected in the author files, as are some of the authors' other roles in the literary community. (This material is supplemented by Halpern's personal and professional papers.).</p> <p>The manuscripts, mostly typescript, in the author files might be rough drafts of poems and stories or book length manuscripts. Halpern received manuscripts as submissions to <span class=\"title\">Antaeus</span> or the Ecco Press, as class assignments, as requests for feedback from friends and colleagues, as tokens of appreciation, or as entries in contests he was judging. Typescripts of books eventually published by Ecco can be found in the Dead Matter series.</p> <p>There are substantial author files for the following figures:</p> <p>Philip Appleman, Russell Banks, Marvin Bell, Stephen Berg, Paul Bowles, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Raymond Carver, Guy Davenport, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Annie Dillard, Alan Dugan, Stephen Dunn, John Engels, Carolyn Forché, Richard Ford, John Fowles, Gary Gildner, Louise Glück, Nadine Gordimer, Jorie Graham, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Barbara Howes, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Donald Justice, Edmund Keeley, Galway Kinnell, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Gordon Lish, Heather McHugh, Sandra McPherson, William Matthews, Robert Mazzocco, W. S. Merwin, Leonard Michaels, Czeslaw Milosz, Joyce Carol Oates, Gregory Orr, Linda Orr, John Peck, Robert Pinsky, Stanley Plumly, David Posner, James Purdy, James Reiss, Edouard Roditi, Leon Rooke, David St. John, Dennis Schmitz, Patricia Shepard, Charles Simic, Josef Škvorecký, Dave Smith, Mark Strand, Brian Swann, James Tate, Chase Twichell, Ellen Voigt, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Miller Williams, William S. Wilson, Tobias Wolff, Charles Wright.</p> <p>(P) = includes photograph of author.</p>"}