Margaret Atwood papers Coll

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1 Gift of Margaret Atwood, 2014 Dates of creation: (predominantly: ) Extent: 19 boxes, 17 books (3 metres) Scope and content: This accession for Margaret Atwood s papers contains publishers correspondence; media; promotional materials; materials related to theatre and film including adaptations of her work and librettos she has written; professional correspondence; personal correspondence; awards and honorary degrees; fan mail; press clippings; and other material related to her life and work. Contains series: Series 1: Publishers Correspondence, Media & Promotional Materials for Novels Series 2: Theatre & Film Series 3: Projects Series 4: Professional Activities Series 5: Professional Correspondence Series 6: Personal Correspondence Series 7: Awards and Honorary Degrees Series 8: Work on Atwood Series 9: General Media Series 10: Website and Social Media Series 11: Fan Mail Series 12: Press Clippings and Event Brochures Series 13: Interviews and Essays on Margaret Atwood Series 14: Journals, Magazines and Other Custodial history: These papers were donated to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Notes: 1

2 Arrangement Folder descriptions, where necessary, are taken directly from titles given by Atwood to her own folders. Shorthand notations are used throughout the finding aid and are to be translated as follows: ALS Autograph letter signed (signed by the author of the letter, handwritten) ANS Autograph note signed (shorter note, card, postcard, etc.) TLS Typed letter signed (typed letter signed by hand) TNS Typed note signed (shorter typed note or card signed by the author) TL Typed letter not signed AL Autograph letter not signed AN Autograph note not signed Restrictions on access Open SERIES 1: PUBLISHERS CORRESPONDENCE, MEDIA & PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS FOR NOVELS Contains correspondence, revisions for manuscripts, promotional articles, media clippings, adaptations, permissions, reviews, and other materials pertaining to Margaret Atwood's novels. MaddAddam : a novel :1 Manuscript typos/corrections :2-8 Promotional materials 2013 Includes correspondence and articles. 1:9-11 Correspondence re: media :12-19 Media clippings :1-2 Launch party [Includes correspondence, notes, guest lists]

3 In Other Worlds : SF and the Human Imagination :3 General Correspondence :4-8 Publishers correspondence :9-10 Manuscript typos/corrections :11 Permissions :12 Promotions 2011 Includes correspondence and articles. 2:13-16 Media 2011 Includes correspondence and news clippings. 2:17 Reviews - Canada :18 Reviews United States :19 Reviews United Kingdom/world 2011 The Year of the Flood :20 Advertisements for website Payback : Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth :1 Correspondence re: novel :2-5 Manuscript typos/corrections [Includes correspondence] 3:6-11 Film correspondence Includes information regarding the adaptation, contracts, some script drafts, and interview schedules. 3:12-13 Media [news clippings] + excerpts selected by Phil Bergerson Moral Disorder 3

4 2006 3:14 Media Includes news clippings and articles. Curious Pursuits : Occasional Writing :15-17 Various correspondence, drafts, dust jackets, and other information related to the production of the novel Oryx and Crake :18-20 Media :21 Promotional material SERIES 2: THEATRE & FILM Contains scripts for play and film adaptations, drafts of librettos, correspondence, research, media releases, news clippings, and other material. The Edible Woman [adaptations] :1 Play files for Dave Carley s adaptation. Includes: script, stage ephemera, correspondence, and reviews. 4:2 Correspondence re: the play adaptation by Dave Carley 4:3 Draft of screenplay adapted by Sonia Sahuqillo

5 4:4 Cerlox-bound copy of screenplay adapted by Sonia Sahuquillo 4:5-7 Screenplay by Francine Zuckerman [with revisions] for Markham Street Films and Z Films Inc. 4:8 Script draft: The Edible Woman. [2013] 4:9 Media [news clippings] Inanna Opera [Also known as Inanna s Journey or Inanna s Descent]. Music by: Randolph Peters, Libretto by: Margaret Atwood :10-11 Correspondence and research materials :12 Early script: Inanna s Descent [Incudes annotations.] Box 5 Mock-up: Inanna Act Box 5 Cerlox-bound: Inanna Act 1. Music by: [2007] Randolph Peters. Libretto by: Margaret Atwood. Box 5 2 CDs from Inanna workshop (2005) Includes correspondence from Randolph Peters All the Rage [play adaptation based on Margaret Atwood s 1 CD titled: Inanna Act 1 mock-up. 1 CD titled: Inanna Preview. 2 other Inanna CDs from Randolph Peters. 5

6 Hairball ] by: Shannon Beaty Logeman :13-15 Draft [annotated by M.A.] :16-18 Draft [annotated by M.A.] :19-21 Draft :22 Casting choices The River Door: Opera :1 News clippings, re: libretto on the life of 1999 poet, Pauline Johnson. 6:2-6 Correspondence includes letters between M.A. and Randolph Peters and Richard Bradshaw; as well as a letter from Randolph Peters to Richard Bradshaw, re: Pauline s music. 6:7-10 Various drafts [ ] Pauline Johnson Opera :11-19 Background information/research on [ ] Pauline Johnson and script drafts [including revisions and annotations]. 6:20-26 Correspondence between M.A. and Charles Barber [also includes script drafts with revisions]. 7:1 Correspondence and media releases :2 Older news release from the Canadian Opera Company 7:3 Toronto Star article by Martin Knelman :4 Production schedule for November June 2014 Pauline Prospectus, World Premiere on Vancouver

7 7:5 Draft [cerlox-bound]: Pauline : a chamber in two acts by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes. October 2013 workshop draft, includes notes. Box 5 VHS tape: The Canadians: Pauline Johnson Other 7:6 Draft: Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda [Early version] 7:7 Documentary film proposal, re: Margaret 1974 Atwood in the 1970s. Proposal by: Marmie Charndoff, Alex Park and Peter Walsh. Box 5 Renée Nault illustrations. [2000s] SERIES 3: PROJECTS Contains short stories, introductions for books, articles, mentorship programs, blog-posts, and other projects. Arranged chronologically. 7:8 Story for Crimespotting (2009) anthology: Pretend Blood, pp Contains copy of story from anthology :9 Article for The Guardian: Time Capsule Found on a Dead Planet (September 2009). 7:10 The New York Review of Books article: Atwood in the Twittersphere Contains print-out of the article, correspondence, and notes. Contains blog post from April 2010, draft and Toronto Star article entitled, Margaret Atwood learns to love Twitter [published on Saturday, April 10, 2010]

8 7:11-15 Story: Stone Mattress for The New Yorker (December 19 & 26, 2011 issue), pp Contains various drafts edited by M.A., Deborah Treisman and Phoebe Larmore; proofs; a copy of The New Yorker and other media related to The Stone Mattress :16 Article for The Guardian: Underbrush Man (November 7, 2011). Contains print-out of the article :17-18 Contribution to Shadow Show : All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (c2012) 7:19-22 Story: I Dream of Zenia With The Big Red Teeth for The Walrus (July/August 2012), pp Contains correspondence and other information related to book. Contains correspondence with Nic Boshart (The Walrus), Shelley Ambrose (The Walrus), Liz Calder, Nick Mount, drafts with revisions, media clippings about article, and a copy of The Walrus :23-25 Introduction for Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (2013) 7:26 The New York Review of Books NYRblog article: Deeper Into the Twungle. 7:27 The New York Review of Books NYRblog: Dreams. Contains various drafts of the introduction 2013 with revisions, notes, and correspondence. Contains copy of the blog post Contains draft of blog post :28 Introduction for Jiro Asada s The Stationmaster (2013) 7:29 Article for Elle Canada: The First Time I Almost Died. Contains draft of the introduction with revisions. Contains some correspondence, and draft of article with revisions

9 7:30 Article for The Guardian: Writing the Blind Assassin (September 2013). Includes draft of the article with a note :31 Article in Harper s Bazaar: Through the Wardrobe (September 2013). 7:32 Article for the New York Times Book Review: The Purloined (October 3, 2013). Contains draft of the article, a cut-out of the article from Harper s Bazaar, and a note. Contains some correspondence, a holograph draft of the article, and a WPdraft of the article ( words) :33 Article on climate change in Canadian Living/Huffington Post (October 2013) 7:34 Media comments, re: Alice Munro s Nobel Prize win 7:35 Article for WIRED: Dispatches from 2024 (February 2014) Contains correspondence regarding article Contains correspondence and articles regarding M.A. s comments about Alice Munro s Nobel Prize win. Contains draft of the article :36 Tribute for Coleen Grissom (February 2014) 7:37 Article for Financial Times Weekend: Why readers and writers are so fixated with dystopian visions (March 14, 2014). 7:38 Short essay entitled Instructions for the Third Eye for An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short Stories, Contains correspondence and draft for Coleen Grissom tribute. Contains WP draft of article and print out from Financial Times website. Contains copy of M.A. s essay, Instructions for the Third Eye

10 Prose, Poems, Brief Essays and Other Short Prose Forms. Edited by Alan Ziegler. SERIES 4: PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Mentorship 8:1-4 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative - a year of mentoring. Reviews Books reviewed by Margaret Atwood. 8:5 The New York Times Book Review - Stephen King s Doctor Sleep. 8:6-8 The New York Book Review - Dave Eggers s Circle. 8:9 Sojourners Magazine Leah Kostamo s Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community. 8:10 Review of Montenegrin translation of Atwood s The Contains correspondence and other information regarding the Rolex Mentorship program, and M.A. s mentoring of her protégé, Naomi Alderman. Margaret Atwood mentored Naomi for a year ( ); they even co-wrote a zombie novella for Canadian digital platform, Wattpad. Contains correspondence and draft of review from August Contains correspondence, drafts, galleys, notes and a copy of The New York Book Review (November 21, 2013 / vol. LX, no. 18). Contains a copy of the review from February Contains copy of review entitled: Words Words Words: The Novel, the

11 Penelopiad produced by Toronto-based April Purgatorio Festival in 2012 in Tivat, Montenegro. Play, the Production by: Dragana Varagic and Kathleen Irwin. Notes Notes for previously published novels. 8:11 Notes Holograph notes for The Penelopiad (1 page). 8:12 Notes Holograph notes for The Robber Bride (1 page). Presentations and Speeches 8:13 Speech for The Duthie Lecture in Michigan 8:14 Norton Rose presentation [Read by Margaret Atwood at Admiral]. Speech: Five Visits to the World Hoard presented for The Duthie Lecture in Michigan. Contains draft of the presentation that M.A. was filmed reading Canada Reads :15-19 Canada Reads Contains correspondence and information (re: interviews and the contest) related to Margaret Atwood s The Year of the Flood being nominated for Canada Reads SERIES 5: PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE 11

12 8:20-24 Publishers Correspondence: Random House + McClelland & Stewart 9:1 Publishers Correspondence: Virago Press 9:2-3 Publishers Correspondence: Bloomsbury Publishing 9:4-5 Publishers Correspondence: Vintage Books 9:6 Publishers Correspondence: House of Anansi Press 9:7 Publishers Correspondence: Audible.com 9:8 Publishers Correspondence: Éditions Robert Laffont 9:9 Publishers Correspondence International 9:10-11 Publishers Correspondence Various 9:12 Professional Correspondence: Wattpad Media 9:13 Professional Correspondence: Byliner 9:14 Miscellaneous Professional Correspondence Greg Gatenby Contains various correspondence, some drafts and ephemera relating to M.A. s work with Random House and McClelland Stewart. Contains various correspondence as well as dust jackets for Murder in the Dark, Good Bones, Alias Grace, The Wilderness Tips, Cat s Eye, The Robber Bride. Contains various correspondence, and a news clipping. Contains various correspondence, cover images and other files. Contains correspondence with various individuals from House of Anansi Press. Contains various correspondence Contains correspondence with various people from Éditions Robert Laffont. Contains correspondence with various international publishers. Contains correspondence with various/miscellaneous publishers. Contains various correspondence as well as some news clippings. Contains various correspondence with Byliner, re: M.A. s writing appearing in Byliner subscription and her Byliner Writer account. Contains 1 TLS from Greg Gatenby, re: Good Bones SERIES 6: PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 12

13 Contains personal correspondence with other writers and friends who are now deceased. Arranged alphabetically. 9:15 Allodi, Mary 1 ALS + photograph :16 Anderson, Doris 1 ALS :17 Appel, Bluma 1 ANS :18 Billings, Bessie 15 ALS :19 Bradshaw, Richard and Diana 1 ALS + 5 s [Also includes correspondence re: Richard Bradshaw]. 9:20 Brewster, Elizabeth 25 ALS :21 Brewster, Elizabeth 11 ALS, 6 TLS :22 Buckley, Jerome 13 ALS [Also includes obituaries] :23 Cohen, Matt 2 ALS :24 Corbeil, Carole 1 ALS :25 Dallas, Ernst 25 TLS :26 Davison, Peter 5 TLS, 3 ALS :27 Engel, Marion 1 TLS, 1 ALS :28 Findley, Timothy 1 ANS :1 Firstbrook, Katy 1 ALS :2-6 French, Marilyn 44 TLS/TL, 10 ALS, 10 ANS :7 Frye, Northrop 1 ANS :8 Gaynor, Larry 11 ANS [ ] 10:9 Gibson, Margaret 1 TLS :10 Gill, Elaine 15 TLS/TL between Gill and M.A :11 Godard, Barbara 1 ALS :12 Highsmith, Patricia 1 TLS :13 Hillerman, Tony 1 ANS :14 Hitchens, Christopher 1 ANS :15 King, James 8 TLS, 3 ALS, some faxes and notes re: Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland biographies. 10:16 Laurence, Margaret 1 ALS, 1 photocopied TLS from M.L. to John Cushman

14 10:17 Leonard, Elmore 8 TLS, 2 ALS between M.A. and E.L :18 Lowther, Pat 2 TLS between M.A. and Christine 2000 Wiesenthal re: book on Pat Lowther. 10:19 MacEwen, Gwendolyn 9 TLS, 2 ALS (Correspondence between M.A. and Elizabeth Wilson). 10:20 McClelland, Jack 16 TLS, 1 ALS :21 Olson, Tillie 2 ALS :22 Osborne, John 3 ALS, 2 TLS :23 Page, P.K. 1 ANS, 2 ALS, 2 TLS :24 Page, P.K. 5 ALS, 6 TLS, 1 ANS :25 Page, P.K. 2 TLS, 2 ANS :26 Page, P.K. 6 TLS, 3 ALS, 1 TNS, 13 ANS + s :27 Percy, Bill 2 ALS, 2 TLS :28 Petrie, D. & D. 3 ANS :29 Pinter, Harold 1 TLS, 1 TL, 1 ALS :30 Purdy, Al 1 TLS, 1 ANS, 1 TL correspondence re: A.P. 10:31 Quarrington, Paul 4 ANS, 1 TLS :32 Reaney, Colleen (Thibideau 7 ALS, 1 ANS, 1 TL s) 10:33 Reaney, James 2 ANS, 4 photographs, as well as correspondence re: J.R. 10:34 Rich, Adrienne 3 ALS, 3 TLS, 3 ANS, s :35 Ross, Sinclair 2 ALS, 2 TLS, and some correspondence to John O Connor re: S.R. 10:36 Ross, Val 1 ALS, s and faxes :37 Rule, Jane 2 TLS, 1 re: J.R. passing away :38 Rule, Jane 3 ALS, 8 TLS :39 Rule, Jane 7 TLS, 3 photographs :40 Rule, Jane 1 ALS, 7 TLS :1 Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg 6 TLS, 1 ALS :2 Sheppard, Gordon 8 TLS, s :3 Sherry, Norman 2 TLS, 2 ALS :4 Simms, Mary 1 TLS re: Canadian Facts

15 11:5 Skelton, Robin 7 TLS/TL, 1 ALS :6 Slater, Edna 21 TLS, 3 ALS, 1 ANS :7 Stambaugh, Sara 8 TLS :8 Tallman, Warren 2 TL, 2 TLS, 1 ALS :9 Tennenbaum, Davida 3 ALS :10 Tradii, Joe 3 ALS, 1 TLS re: purchase of Atwood art :11 Updike, John 2 TLS and s re: J.U :12 Watson, Sheila 1 TLS, 1 ALS re: Sheila Watson s journals 2000 SERIES 7: AWARDS AND HONORARY DEGREES Contains awards and honorary degrees Margaret Atwood has received. Prince of Asturias Award 11:13-15 Articles and correspondence, re: award :16 Speech for Asturias Award :17 Media, re: Prince of Asturias Award :18 Other correspondence and information, re: award Awards [various] Arranged chronologically. 11:19 Awards Contains correspondence and news 2000 clippings. 11:20 Awards Contains correspondence :21 Awards Contains Chicago Tribune, re: Chicago 2005 Tribune Literary Prize. 11:22 Awards Contains correspondence and news 2006 clipping. 11:23-24 Awards Contains correspondence, certificate and 2007 news clippings. 11:25 Awards Contains correspondence and news clippings

16 11:26 Awards Contains information about award :27 Awards Contains correspondence, ephemera and news clippings. 11:28 Awards Contains correspondence and news 2013 clippings. 11:29-30 Awards Contains general information about various awards ranging from Honorary Degrees 11:31 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal. 11:32 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Open University Honorary Degree. 11:33 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from McMaster University and an Honorary DLitt from the University of Warwick. 11:34 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Degree of Doctor of Letters from Oxford University; Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association; Honorary Degree from Lakehead University. 11:35 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Degree from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. 12:1 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: World Economic Forum s Crystal Award. 12:2 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Ryerson and notice of being on Queen s University s list of Canada s Most Powerful Women. 12:3 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Doctorate of Literature from the National University of Ireland. Includes photographs

17 12:4 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris & Lifetime Achievement Award. 12:5 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Doctorate from the University of Athens. 12:6 Honorary Degrees Other [contains correspondence and news clippings.] SERIES 8: WORK ON ATWOOD Contains various projects, essays, and articles about Margaret Atwood. 12:7-14 Work on Atwood Contains various correspondence, interviews, essays, articles regarding work done on Margaret Atwood SERIES 9: GENERAL MEDIA Contains news clippings, articles, and correspondence regarding media related to the life and work of Margaret Atwood. 12:15-20, 13:1- General media 13:5 13:6-18 General media not book specific SERIES 10: WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Contains newspaper clippings and printouts, re: M.A. Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence re: media on M.A. that is not specific to her writing Contains information regarding Margaret Atwood s website and Twitter account. 17

18 14:1-12 Margaret Atwood website Contains information regarding the home page for the website. 14:13 Media update Contains information re: media update for M.A. website. 14:14 McClelland & Stewart website Contains information, re: M.A. on McClelland & Stewart website. 14:15-19 Twitter & Social Media Contains correspondence and print-outs from M.A. s Twitter account SERIES 11: FAN MAIL Contains fan mail to Margaret Atwood. 14:20-22, 15:1-3 General fan mail. Contains correspondence from M.A. s fans/readers. 15:4-14 Fantastic fan mail. Contains correspondence from M.A. s fans/readers labelled fantastic SERIES 12: PRESS CLIPPINGS AND EVENT BROCHURES Contains press clippings and other ephemera related to events Margaret Atwood has attended. 16:1-3 Press clippings and Events Correspondence and other ephemera re: press clippings and events. Box 17 Press clippings and Events Various magazines, press clippings and other ephemera that related to M.A. appearances, lectures, projects, novels s

19 SERIES 13: INTERVIEWS AND ESSAYS ON MARGARET ATWOOD Contains interviews and essays regarding Atwood. 16:4 Interview Interview by: Giuliana Nigro. Includes correspondence and interview. 16:5 Thesis Undergraduate thesis on Atwood: Truth Resists Simplicity: Margaret Atwood s Resistance of (Gender) Stereotype in The Handmaid s Tale and Cat s Eye by Hans Bak. 16:6 Essay High school essay on Atwood: It s An All Right Life A Study on Canadian Literature by: Guy Quenneville SERIES 14: JOURNALS, MAGAZINES AND OTHER Contains interviews and essays regarding Atwood. Box 18 Journals, Magazines, Other Advanced reading copy: Stone Mattress Talese/Doubleday Reader s Digest April 2014 A Story Larger Than My Own - women writers look back on their lives and careers Brick, a literary journal winter 2014 A Brick Reader (50 Writers on Life, Art, Writing from 22 years of Brick, A Literary Journal) 19

20 2014 Get to Know contest calendar Montecristo, 5th anniversary issue Sojourners, February 2014 Bokvennen litter/ert magasin 2014 Reader s Digest, May 2013 Der Neue Roman Von - Die Geschichte Von Zeb -Berlin Verlag magazine Quest Reviews pamphlet, April 1995 Ad from University of Toronto press Margaret Atwood Studies, Vol. 7 - Fall 2013 Between the Pages, Nov. 4th, 2013 (Giller) Box 19 Journals, Magazines, Other Mentor Protégé, Issue 4, October 2013 Margaret Atwood & Naomi Alderman Complete and unabridged Good Bones & Simple Murders & The Tent (audio) MaddAddam (audio) In Other Worlds e-book (U.K. edition and U.S. edition) River Door floppy disks 20

21 Books: 1. Atwood, Margaret. Oryx en Crake & Het Jaar Van De Vloed. Amsterdam : Prometheus, Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. Canada Reads 2014 Edition. 3. Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam. Amsterdam : Prometheus, Atwood, Margaret. Up In The Tree. Beijing : New Star Press, Atwood, Margaret. Rövarbruden. Norstedts : Stockholm, Atwood, Margaret. Oryx und Crake. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, Atwood, Margaret. De Perséfone a Pussycat : voz e identidad en la poesía. Mexico : Bonilla Artigas Editores, Atwood, Margaret. Der blinde Mörder, Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, Atwood, Margaret. Das Jahr Der Flut. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, Atwood, Margaret. Moralische Unordnung. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, Atwood, Margaret. Die Geschichte von Zeb. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, Atwood, Margaret. ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ Atwood, Margaret. Όρυξ και Κρέικ, Dinesen, Isak. [With an introduction by Margaret Atwood]. Seven Gothic Tales. London : Folio Society, Halliday, John. Don t Bring Me No Rocking Chair - Poems on Ageing. [Contains poem by Margaret Atwood on page 176.] 16. Virago is 40 : A Celebration. 21

22 17. Burroway, Janet. A Story Larger Than My Own : Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,