Finding Aid for the Alison Lurie Papers LSC.0269
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Title: Alison Lurie papers
Creator:
Lurie, Alison
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0269
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date: 1964
Abstract: Alison Lurie (1926- ) was a professor of English at Cornell University and won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her
Foreign Affairs (1984). The collection consists of an original first draft typescript of Alison Lurie's book,
The Nowhere City and a carbon typescript of a second draft.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Gift of Mrs. Jonathan Peale Bishop, 1965.
- Gift of Cornel Wilde, 1966.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alison Lurie Papers (Collection 269). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Lurie was born on September 3, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois; BA, Radcliffe College, 1947; married Jonathan Peale Bishop, September
10, 1948; lecturer (1969-73), associate professor (1973-76), and professor of English in 1976, Cornell University; named Frederic
J. Whiton Professor of American literature in 1989; won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her
Foreign Affairs (1984); other books include
The Nowhere City (1965),
Imaginary Friends (1967),
The War Between the Tates (1974), and
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (editor, 1993).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of an original first draft typescript of Alison Lurie's book,
The Nowhere City (London, 1965; New York, 1966), a novel set in Los Angeles. Contains a carbon typescript of a second and final draft. Also
includes a movie scenario by an unknown author made from the novel.
Description derived from in-house card file.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts for publication
Women novelists, American -- Archives.
Lurie, Alison -- Archives
box 1
The Nowhere City. Ithaca, New York.
ca. 1964.
General Physical Description note: ca. 450 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Contents note
First draft of a novel with a Los Angeles setting, first published by Heineman, London, 1965; published by Coward-McCann,
New York, 1966.
box 1
The Nowhere City. Ithaca, New York. Another copy.
ca. 1964.
General Physical Description note: Typescript (carbon). Second and final draft.
Scope and Contents note
First draft of a novel with a Los Angeles setting, first published by Heineman, London, 1965; published by Coward-McCann,
New York, 1966.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of the author (Mrs. Jonathan Peale Bishop, Jr.), August 1965.
box 1
The Nowhere City, [no publisher, Los Angeles. Another copy.
ca. 1966.
Physical Description: 1 pages
General Physical Description note: Mimeographed.
Scope and Contents note
A movie scenario, author unknown, made from Alison Lurie's novel of the same name.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Cornel Wilde, July 1966.
