Collection Contents
Box 1 : 1-2
Series 1.
Personal
1965-2007
Physical Description: 2 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains materials of a personal nature relating to
Turner, including a resume, a biographical account by his partner, Bill Hein,
newspaper clippings, and a photograph of Turner and Hein. The series also
includes certificates of copyright of various of Turner's works.
Box 1 :
1
Biographical materials
circa
1975-2007
Box 1 : 3-9 ; 2 : 1-5
Series 2.
Novels
1976-1999
Physical Description: 12 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of typescripts and page proofs of Turner's
novels, in particular the three works published in 1999 by Kalinke Books.
Box 1 : 4-5
I Might Have Died Never
Knowing
April 1977
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 1 : 6-7
Typescript
circa 1999
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 1 : 8
Corrected version
October 21,
1999
Box 1 : 9 ; 2 : 1
Draft
1976-1991
Physical Description: 2 folders.
Box 2 : 4-5
Within the Circle
circa 1999
Box 2 : 4
Circle of Friends
circa 1999
Box 2 : 5
Kalinke Books. Page proofs
1999
Physical Description: Incomplete.
Box 2 : 6-10 ; 3 1-11 ; 4 :
1-3
Series 3.
Plays
1966-2006
Physical Description: 19 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of materials relating to Turner's plays,
including draft and final scripts, newspaper reviews and other clippings,
programs, photographs, and other production materials, including materials for
the off-Broadway run of Mama's Ghost.
Box 2 : 7
Don't Tie Your Public Hairs In A
Knot
. Script
December 2006
Box 2 : 8-10
A Harvest of Shadows
2002-2003
Box 2 : 8
Script. Original
November 15,
2002
Box 3 : 1
Script
1993
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 3 : 2
Production materials
1994,
2006
Box 3 : 5
Production materials
2002
Box 3 : 7-8
Script
1995
Physical Description: 3 copies.
Box 3 : 9
Script. Stage Manager's Copy
1995
Box 3 : 10
Production materials
1996,
1998
Box 3 : 11
Script
1997
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 4 : 1
Production materials and correspondence
1997-2000
Box 4 : 2
Paying Respect. Script
1995
Box 4 : 3
Step Down Into Hell.
Program
circa 1966
Box 4 :
4-6
Series 4.
Other Writings
circa
1954-1980
Physical Description: 3 folders.
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains Turner's other writings, including his earliest
datable work, the poem Lonely Lover, three short stories apparently written
around the year 1974, and the outline for a musical spoof written about
1980.
Box 4 : 4
I Saw, I Came, I Went, She Died (The Ted
Bundy Jollies). A Bad New Musical
circa 1980
Box 4 : 5
Lonely Lover (published as
The Tortures of Being
Alone
)
circa 1954
Scope and Content Note
Poetry.
Box 4 : 6
Short Stories
circa 1974
Physical Description: 3 items.
Box 5 : 1-13
Series 5.
Electronic Media
1996-2007
Physical Description: 13 items.
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of computer diskettes and CD-ROMs containing
electronic versions prepared by Turner of his plays and novels. The DVD-ROM was
prepared by ONE Archives staff, and contains copies of all the files on the
computer diskettes.
Box 5 : 1-9
Plays and Novels. Computer diskettes
1996-2007
Physical Description: 9 diskettes : 3.5 inches : 1.44 MB.
Box 5 : 10
Plays and Novels. DVD-ROM (copies of box 5, items
1-9)
December 2008
Physical Description: 1 DVD-ROM.
Scope and Content Note
Copies of Box 5, Items 1-9.
Box 5 : 11
Kalinke Books.
JerryO. CD-ROM
October 1999
Physical Description: 1 CD-ROM.
Box 5 : 12
Kalinke Books.
Seven Valleys. CD-ROM
1999
Physical Description: 1 CD-ROM.
Box 5 : 13
Kalinke Books.
Within the Circle.
CD-ROM
1999
Physical Description: 1 CD-ROM.
Box 4 : 7-10
Series 6.
Publications
1954-1999
Physical Description: 4 volumes.
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series consists of published versions of four of Turner's
works: his poem,
The Tortures of Being Alone (originally
titled
Lonely Lover), the comic
Pathetically Yours, Sarah Muskoil, the
play,
It Happens!, and his novel,
Within the Circle.
Box 4 : 7
It Happens! A drama about love &
AIDS
1993
Scope and Content Note
Play.
Box 4 : 8
Pathetically Yours, Sara
Muskoil
1977
Scope and Content Note
Humor.
Box 4 : 9
The Tortures of Being
Alone
1954
Scope and Content Note
Poetry.
Box 4 : 10
Within the Circle
1999
Scope and Content Note
Novel.