Subseries I.B. Nonfiction

id
1818587
level (num)
2
level (text)
subseries
identifier (local_mss)
3622218
max depth
1
boost queries
add/edit
created
2026-02-27 22:50:48 UTC
updated
2026-02-27 23:11:34 UTC

Description data TOP

unitid
{"value"=>"3622218", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1979-2022", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1979/2022"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Subseries I.B. Nonfiction"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The Nonfiction subseries dates from 1979 to 2022 and contains files on Auster's memoirs and other nonfiction work. The files are represented through notebooks, typescript and holograph drafts, proofs, correspondence, art mockups, and marketing material.</p> <p>Held here are files from Auster's memoirs <span class=\"title\">The Invention of Solitude</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Red Notebook</span>, <span class=\"title\">Hand to Mouth</span>, <span class=\"title\">Winter Journal</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Report from the Interior</span>; <span class=\"title\">The Story of My Typewriter</span>, with illustrations by Sam Messer; <span class=\"title\">Bloodbath Nation</span> and <span class=\"title\">Long Live King Kobe</span>, Auster's reflections on violence in the United States, featuring photographs by Spencer Ostrander; Auster's collaboration with Bill Corbett under the pen name \"Felix Harr;\" <span class=\"title\">Here and Now</span>, a book chronicling the correspondence between Auster and the South African novelist J.M. Coetzee; and his biography of Stephen Crane, <span class=\"title\">Burning Boy</span>.</p>"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"<p>Files are arranged alphabetically by title. Files within each title are arranged chronologically to represent the flow of Auster's writing process from notebook draft to publication.</p>"}
date_start
1979
keydate
1979
date_end
2022
date_inclusive_start
1979
date_inclusive_end
2022

Repository Assets

No UUIDs attached.

Resources TOP

File attachments

No files attached.

Child components TOP

  1. Bloodbath Nation [6/1]
  2. Burning Boy [22/1]
  3. "Felix Harr" [3/1]
  4. Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure [17/1]
  5. Here and Now [7/1]
  6. The Invention of Solitude [9/1]
  7. A Life in Words: In Conversation with I. B. Siegumfeldt [7/1]
  8. Long Live King Kobe [8/1]
  9. Paul Auster's New York [5/1]
  10. The Red Notebook [20/1]
  11. Reflections on a Cardboard Box [4/1]
  12. Report from the Interior [11/1]
  13. The Story of My Typewriter [18/1]
  14. Winter Journal [13/1]