MsC 66

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  Manuscript Register

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PAPERS OF MARILYNNE ROBINSON

Collection Dates: [1998]
1.25 linear ft.

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This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

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Posted to Internet:January 2003

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Addenda: 2008

Acquisition Note: These manuscripts were deposited in the University of Iowa Libraries in 1998 by the author.

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Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

Marilynne Robinson has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop since 1991. In 1989, she was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction and in 1998, she received a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has published three novels: Housekeeping in 1980, Gilead in 2004, and Home in 2008. Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.

Scope and Content

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The papers of Marilynne Robinson consist of manuscripts and foreign language editions of some of her works.

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Box List

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Box 1

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The Death of Adam. Advance reading copy.

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Housekeeping. Incomplete holograph draft with corrections and revisions.

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Box 2

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2008 Addendum

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Books in translation

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Gilead (2004)

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Chinese

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Czech (In box 3)

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Danish

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Dutch

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Finnish

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French

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German

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Hebrew

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Italian

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Korean

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Polish

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Portuguese (Brazil)

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Romanian. 1 paperback

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Box 3

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Serbian

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Spanish (Barcelona)

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Vietnamese

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Housekeeping (1980)

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Chinese

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Czech

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Estonian

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Korean

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Portuguese

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Home (2008)

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Chinese

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Danish

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Box 4

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Hebrew

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Slovakian

Printout from the Guardian 30 March 2011

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