{"value"=>"<p>This series contains correspondence and collateral papers arranged alphabetically by topic or organizational title, reflecting Grumbach's wide-ranging literary, academic, and professional activities and associations. The contents document her participation at academic and writers' conferences and workshops, book publishing events, book award ceremonies, memorial services, and her residency at writers' colonies. Included are papers relating to her teaching career and academic positions at the College of Saint Rose (Albany, New York), American University (Washington, D.C.), the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop, and Sewanee, the University of the South. Included are files relating to her participation in the PEN/Faulkner annual literary awards, the Carey Thomas Publishing Award, the Ernest Hemingway Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. There are also papers relating to her membership on the advisory council of the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Many files contain handwritten notes recording her observations, impressions, criticisms and evaluations of conferences, workshops and awards ceremonies in which she participated or attended. The files contain a relatively high proportion of papers collateral to correspondence including notes, minutes, memoranda, reports, announcements, programs, agenda, flyers, and brochures.</p>"}