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Title: Lori Twersky papers
Dates: 1954-1991
Collection number: MS 79
Creator:
Twersky, Lori
Collection Size:
26 boxes
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection contains business files, cassette tape interviews, early writings, drafts of "Bitch Book of Women in Rock",
correspondence, notebooks, art work, clippings and appearences.
Physical location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
The following boxes have access restrictions: Boxes 11-16, 18-19, 23
Boxes 11-12 16, 18, 23 require permission to
read or reproduce be obtained from William Abbott, Susan McCarthy or Cheryl Cline.
Boxes 13-15, 19 require permission to
reproduce from William Abbott, Susan McCarthy or Cheryl Cline.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Lori Twersky papers. MS 79. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of William B. Abbott, IV.
Lori A. T. S. N. Twersky was born on October 20, 1954 in Palo Alto, California, to Victor and Shirley Twersky of Los Altos
Hills. She went to school in Palo Alto, and then entered UCSC in the fall of 1972. However, when the Yom Kippur War broke
out she went to Israel and worked as a babysitter on a kibbutz. Upon her return, she began attending UCSC again, but left
before taking her degree. Before leaving, however, she met William Abbott, who she later married. Using her college training
as an artist, Twersky helped found the Center Street Gallery in Santa Cruz. But she was also very interested in writing and
soon became a free-lance writer, and the editor as well as publisher of
Bitch: The Women's Rock Mag With Bite, which documented the roll of women in rock from 1985-1989. Her writing also included stories and reviews for the
Good Times newspaper in Santa Cruz, the
San Francisco Chronicle, Trouser Press and entries in the Feminist Dictionary. She also published
The Chocolate Lover's Guide to Silicon Valley.
Lori Twersky died on November 3, 1991 at the age of 37.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains business files, cassette tape interviews, early writings, drafts of "Bitch Book of Women in Rock",
correspondence, notebooks, art work, clippings and appearences.
This collection has been inventoried in donor order.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Twersky, Lori--Archives
Women Periodicals Editors--California
Women Rock Musicians--Interviews
Women Authors, American--Pacific Coast (North America)