Manuscripts
The Fat Bird: A Play for Voices
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The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).
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Plays, scripts, film treatments, and screenplays
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The plays, scripts, film treatments, and screenplays include multiple drafts in various formats (1963-2011); these drafts include notebooks, autograph, typewritten, photocopy, and computer generated. The drafts contain corrections and additions by Paul Theroux and other authors.
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Girls at play
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An original typescript draft of Paul Theroux's third novel, "Girls at play," with holographic corrections in Theroux's hand. The novel, set in East Africa, concerns the ambitions of three white women teachers at a girls' school. The novel was represented by literary agent H. N. Swanson and published in 1969 by The Bodley Head in the United Kingdom and by Houghton Mifflin Company in the United States. This draft appears to be that used by Houghton Mifflin.
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