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Series 1: Writings, 1977-2020
This series contains notebooks, manuscript drafts, correspondence, and clippings associated with Moore's books, as well as clippings of her articles for magazines and newspapers.
This series is arranged by type of writing into the following subseries: 1A: Books, 1B: Journalism, and 1C: Other Writings. Titles are listed alphabetically.
Subseries 1A: Books, 1977-2020
The Big Girls, 2004-2007
The Big Girls, Notebooks, 2004-2006
The Big Girls, Draft, 2004-2006
The Big Girls, Draft, 2004-2006
In the Cut, 1994-2000
In the Cut, Final Draft, 1994-1995
In the Cut, Publicity and Reviews, 1995
En Carne Viva, 2000
I snittet, 2000
In the Cut, undated
Notebook, circa 1994-2000
The Life of Objects, 2006-2014
A Hero's Life, Draft, 2010 November
MS Life of Objects, 2011 June
A Hero's Life Research File, 2012
The Life of Objects: Interview, 2011
The Life of Objects, 2012
Correspondence, Buch, 2010 June
Correspondence, Mr. Masinton, 2009
Princeton Correspondence, 2010-2012
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 2011
Correspondence, 2014
Light Years, 2008
The Lost Wife, circa 2022-2023
Miss Aluminum, 2018-2020
Miss Aluminum, 2018
Memoir Notes, 2018
Memoir Notebooks, 2018
Miss Aluminum Publicity, 2020
Miss Aluminum, 2020
My Old Sweetheart, 1977-1997
One Last Look, 2001-2004
One Last Look, Notebooks, 2001-2002
One Last Look, Notebooks, 2001-2002
One Last Look, Proofs, 2003 June 11
One Last Look, 2003
Sleeping Beauties, 1989-1993
Subseries 1B: Journalism, 1990-2008
Series 2: Correspondence, 1969-2022
This series consists of Susanna Moore's correspondence with friends and colleagues. Most material after 2000 is printed-out emails. An additional group of correspondence regarding The Life of Objects can also be found in Series 1. Chronological correspondence includes later correspondence with many of the same people listed under the alphabetical correspondence.
Arranged in two subseries, Subseries 2A. Alphabetical Correspondence and 2B. Chronological Correspondence.
Applebaum, Anne, 2006-2009
Campion, Jane, 1999-2008
Devlin, Polly, 1980-2008
Driver, Dorothy, 2009-2010
Eugenides, Jeffrey, 2007-2009
Fletcher, Louise, 1983-2010
Forrestal, Susan, 1995-2010
Ghosh, Biadyanath, 1999-2009
Henry, Buck, 2000-2010
Hogg, Michael Lindsay, 1988-2005
Huston, Angelica, 2004-2009
Kidman, Nicole, undated
Kohler, Sheila, 2009
Kreamer, Anne, 2002-2006
Lessig, Lawrence, 2007-2008
Lewis, Fiona, 2000-2010
Masington, John, 2005-2007
Moore, Rosemary, 2009-2010
Nair, Mira, 2007-2008
Newman, John, 1998-2010
Nichols, Mike, 2008-2010
Penn, Sean, 2010
Sacks, Howard, 2005-2008
Smith, Kiki, 2006-2010
Stefanidis, John, 1980-2010
Trebay, Guy, 2008-2010
Tree, Penelope, 1999-2010
Walker, Kathryn, 1997-2009
Wheeler, Susan, 2009-2010
Whitney, Wheelock, 1991-2010
Wilkinson, Alec, 1994-2010
Correspondence, 1969-1989
Correspondence, 1990-1999
Correspondence, 2000-2001
Correspondence, 2002-2004
Correspondence, 2005
Correspondence, 2006
Correspondence, 2007
Correspondence, 2008
Correspondence, 2009
Correspondence, 2010
Correspondence, 2012-2013
Correspondence, 2014-2015
Correspondence, 2013-2015
Correspondence, 2015
Correspondence, 2015-2016
Correspondence, 2016 January-March
Correspondence, 2016 March-April
Correspondence, 2016 April-May
Correspondence, 2016 May-July
Correspondence, 2016 April-November
Correspondence, 2017
Correspondence, 2017-2018
Correspondence, 2018
Correspondence, 2018-2019
Correspondence, 2019-2020
Correspondence, 2021-2022
Correspondence, 2022
Correspondence, 2021-2023
Series 3: Teaching, 2002-2010
This series contains correspondence, evaluations, and student writings from Moore's stints as a professor of creative writing at Princeton University and her time spent teaching creative writing at the Brooklyn Federal Detention Center. Also includes writing by young children.
Arranged by location of teaching and type of material.
Correspondence, 2005-2007
Art Start, undated
Children's Writing, 2002
GED Writing, 2007
Prison Writing, 2006-2007
Consists of clippings and photocopies of book reviews and profiles of Susanna Moore, awards, and copies of related publications by others.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
Book Reviews, Profiles, Awards, 2013
'Io Lani: The Hawaiian Hawk, 2013
Halekulani: A Gracious History, 2004
Reviews, 2015-2021
Series 5: Photographs, 1940-2008
This series consists of photogrraphs of Susanna Moore and her family as well as photographs of Frank Conroy, Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Laughlin, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Phillips, Roman Polanski, Wallace Shawn, and Richard Sylbert. Also includes images of Moore as a model.
Arranged by subject of photograph.
Susanna Moore, 1946-2008
Family Photographs, 1940-1946
Photographs of Others, 1972-2000
This series consists of audiocassette, CD, and DVD recordings of Moore's interviews, and a VHS tape of a film in which Moore appeared.
Arranged by type of material.
Interview, 1995
Interview, 2007 April 6
Interview, 2007 May 25
Interview, 2013 January
The Ambushers, 1967
The Water Diary, undated
- Scope and Contents
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.
- Acquisition:
Gift of Susanna Moore, 2010-2023 (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, 2024-036).
- Accruals
Regular accruals from the author are expected.
- Appraisal
No materials were separated from the collection during 2015-2023 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. 2023 addition incorporated into the collection by Amy C. Vo in 2023.
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.
- 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 copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
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- 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-001919; B-001232; B-001551; B-000087; B-000088; B-001332; B-001622
