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Title: Carol Carr papers
Date (inclusive): 1946-2016, undated
Collection Number: MS 287
Creator:
Carr, Carol, 1938-2021
Creator:
Dick, Philip K. (Philip Kindred), 1928-1982
Creator:
Busby, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1921-2005
Creator:
Busby, Elinor (Bubbles)
Creator:
Davidson, Avram, 1923-1993
Creator:
Knight, Damon, 1922-2002
Creator:
Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011
Extent:
4.2 linear feet
(9 boxes, including one piece of framed art, and 3 flat file folders)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: This collection includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, poetry, royalties statements, clippings, fanzines, books, and
a piece of framed art. Materials largely pertain to Carol Carr with some materials related to her second husband: Terry Carr.
Languages: The collection is in English.
This collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Distinctive
Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of
the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained
by the researcher.
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Carol Carr papers (MS 287). Special Collections & University Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Purchased from Mark Funke, working on behalf of the Carr estate, in February 2024.
Carol Carr (1938-2021) grew up in New York, where she became interested in science fiction fandom in the 1960s. Her maiden
name was Carol Newmark and she was married three times: Jack Stuart, Terry Carr (from 1961 until his death in 1987), and Robert
Lichtman (from 2000 until her death in 2021). She and Terry Carr moved to Berkeley, CA in the early 1970s.
Carol was a prominent member of science fiction fandom in the second half of the twentieth century, with many close relationships
with authors, editors, and other fans and a frequent attendee of conventions. She was a regular contributor to fanzines, a
published author of several short stories, and a book of her collected writings was publsihed in 2014.
This collection includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, poetry, royalties statements, clippings, fanzines, books, and
a piece of framed art.
The collection is arranged into the following seven series:
- Series 1. Correspondence
- Series 2. Terry Carr
- Series 3. Publishing
- Series 4. Works by Carol Carr
- Series 5. Works by Others
- Series 6. Miscellaneous
- Series 7. Fanzines
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Carr, Terry, 1937-1987
Science fiction -- Authorship
Science fiction fans
Poetry
Correspondence