- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Moore, Susanna
- Title:
- Susanna Moore Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cz30ps740
- Dates:
- 1940-2022
- Size:
- 35 boxes, 12.8 linear feet, 9.8 GB, and 153 digital files
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1-25; B-001092; B-001918; B-001220; B-001232; B-001551; B-000087; B-000088; B-001332; B-001919; B-001622
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Susanna Moore is an American novelist. Her papers consist of drafts of novels and nonfiction books, correspondence with writers and artists, teaching materials from her time spent teaching incarcerated writers and Princeton undergraduates, photographs, and audiovisual material.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The papers consist of drafts of novels and nonfiction books, correspondence with writers and artists, teaching materials from her time spent teaching incarcerated writers and Princeton undergraduates, photographs, and audiovisual material.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Moore
Susanna Moore is an American novelist. Born in Pennsylvania on December 9, 1945, Susanna Moore soon moved to Hawaii with her family. At seventeen, she left Hawaii for the mainland, where she lived in New York and Los Angeles, working as a model and script reader. In 1983, she published her first novel, My Old Sweetheart , which won the PEN Hemingway Citation and the Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Whiteness of Bones (1989) and Sleeping Beauties (1993) followed, forming a loose trilogy of coming-of-age novels set in Hawaii. After spending two years with NYPD homicide detectives, Moore dramatically departed from her earlier work with In the Cut (1995), a thriller set in New York. Later works explore nineteenth-century British India (One Last Look , 2004) and the world of women's prisons (The Big Girls , 2007), based in part on her time spent teaching in detention centers. She also teaches creative writing at Princeton University. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her a Prize for Literary Achievement in 1999.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Susanna Moore, 2010-2022 (AM 2010-143, 2012-97, 2013-26, 2013-34, 2013-106, 2014-19, 2015-91, 2016-17, 2016-49, 2016-59, 2016-69, 2016-90, 2016-103, 2017-11, 2017-65, AM 2017-80, AM 2018-43, AM 2019-19, AM 2019-59, AM 2019-67, AM 2020-2, AM 2021-29, AM 2022-019, AM 2022-123, AM 2023-068).
- Accruals
Regular accruals from the author are expected.
- Appraisal
No materials were separated from the collection during 2015-2022 processing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Alyssa Meyers in 2011. Finding aid written by Alyssa Meyers in 2011. Finding aid updated periodically with new accessions by Kelly Bolding in 2015-2022.
Some of the born-digital materials in this collection have been processed according to Princeton University Library's Born-Digital Processing Workflows. For more information on the workflow, please read our full Born-Digital Processing Information Note. Other born-digital materials on floppy disks and optical media are unprocessed.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research with the exception of the following:
Correspondence with Joan Didion, Kiki Smith, and Arabella Stuart is restricted for their lifetimes. Correspondence with Michael Arlen, William Chillingworth, Annabel Davis-Goff, Glen Duncan, Joyce Carol Oates, and Shelley Wanger is restricted until 2031. Correspondence containing student records is restricted until 2087 in accordance with FERPA. (All restricted material is housed in Box B-001918.)
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
This collection contains digital files, which may require specific software or hardware for access. Refer to our Tips on Accessing Born-Digital Content for information on how to render these file formats.
- Credit this material:
Susanna Moore Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cz30ps740
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 1-25; B-001092; B-001918; B-001220; B-001232; B-001551; B-000087; B-000088; B-001332; B-001919; B-001622