Correspondence, including email totals more than 4,500 pages. It includes 4,200 pages of short stories, essays, poems and screenplays 145 pages of preparatory notes and research and three original notebooks with holograph draft ideas more than 1,060 pages of holograph diary more than 10,200 pages of typescript, much of it with holograph revisions and corrections, 2,100 galley proofs, and 1,855 pages of other related materials. The collection spans much of Proulx’s life, from her university days through her journalism career and to the present. “An old man, 80s, hair cropped to silver stubble, eyes -‘curved eyes squinted into lunettes’- silvery too, the grey shine of beaded water drops catching the light, the long shallow nose, a mustache like 2 handfuls of pine needles, the great toothless mouth opening into the skull, the pale tongue, hard gums, teeth gone chews on the bone under the gums.” One notebook page, at the top of which is scribbled “Xmas Party Faces,” bears the following description, which is crossed out:
The brilliantly descriptive writing that has captivated her readership is shown in its beginnings, as scribbled notes about the people and places she encounters on her travels and in everyday life. The hard beauty and fierce intelligence of her works will draw readers, writers, and students of literature for many years to come.” “It is fa scinating to watch plots, characters and haunting landscapes begin as jottings and sketches in her notebooks, and take on greater depth with research notes, photographs and watercolors, culminating in numerous drafts, often heavily revised in her own hand. “This archive documents in fine detail Proulx's creative journeys that culminate in her finely wrought short stories and novels,” said Library President Paul LeClerc. The acquisition of the collection was announced by Library President Paul LeClerc at its annual Library Lions fundraising dinner at which Ms. These materials and artifacts show the creation of her characters and the observations culminating in remarkable descriptions of landscapes such as the Wyoming mountains and the Newfoundland scrubland. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, include thousands of pages of correspondence, corrected typescripts, travel journals, photographs and watercolors relating to The Shipping News and other works. Berg Collection of English and American Literature in the Stephen A.
The papers, which will be housed in the Henry W. Annie Proulx that help illuminate the creative process of one of America’s foremost contemporary authors. November 2, 2009, New York City-The New York Public Library has acquired a vast and rich collection of research notes, book drafts, and other materials of E.
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