Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market

(Part of the Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series)

by Amy Hildreth Chen

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The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.

The market for contemporary authors'...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1625344856

ISBN13:9781625344854

Release Date:June 2020

Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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