Recordings of lectures and readings by many other well-known authors also appear in this series. The Audiovisual Material Series, which contains many recordings of Garrett's lectures, classes, and addresses to groups of writers, students, and literary scholars, documents Garrett's teaching style and his ideas on the teaching of writing. The Audiovisual Material Series contains some recordings of Garrett reading from his own work. His negotiations with publishers are best documented in the Alphabetical Correspondence Subseries: Group B. This series also affords researchers a detailed view of literary criticism and support exchanged between Garrett and the many authors represented in the collection. The comments of noted literary figures regarding Garrett's work frequently appear in letters in the Alphabetical Correspondence Subseries: Group A. The Chronological Correspondence Subseries contains letters in which Garrett wrote about his works in progress and letters from friends and publishers regarding his work. The Writings by Garrett Subseries contains manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and drafts of his work, some of it bearing notes for revision. Garrett's own literary career is documented throughout the collection. The Proofs Subseries contains a proof of Reynolds Price's Collected Stories, with brief comments by Garrett. The Writings by Others Subseries contains Bell's interview with Garrett, in which Garrett discusses his writing process, and critical essays by Fred Chappell (including one on Garrett's The Stranger in the Mirror and one on the work of Sylvia Wilkinson). The Alphabetical Correspondence Subseries: Group A contains letters from numerous contemporary American authors, among them Madison Smartt Bell, who wrote regarding the progress of his fiction, his experience with publishers and literary agents, and his interview with Garrett for Paris Review and Fred Chappell, whose letters provide commentary on his own works The Inkling and Dagon as well as praise for Garrett's Death of the Fox, The Magic Striptease, and Welcome to the Medicine Show. The collection is divided into the Writings Series (with subseries of Writings by Garrett, Writings Edited by Garrett, Writings by Others, and Proofs) the Correspondence Series (with 5 subseries of alphabetically and chronologically arranged correspondence) the Audiovisual Material Series and the Miscellaneous Papers Series. Correspondence with numerous authors, publishers, and educators offers much information about the history of 20th-century Southern literature, publishing, and literary education. The collection primarily documents Garrett's literary career as an author of novels, short stories, poetry, and dramatic works (including filmscripts) and the tremendous influence he had as an English professor and an editor on an entire generation of writers, particularly in the South. Additional materials were received by the Library directly from George Garrett. Wright published a number of Garrett's works at his Palaemon Press and also assembled the Stuart Wright Bibliographic Collection of George Garrett (see related materials held by the Rubenstein Library). The papers were initially collected and assembled by author, bibliographer, and publisher Stuart T. Garrett span the years 1929 to 2000 with the bulk of the material being dated between 19. The papers document Garrett's literary career as an author of novels, short stories, poetry, and dramatic works (including filmscripts) and the tremendous influence he had as an English professor and an editor on an entire generation of writers, particularly in the South. Garrett (1929-2008) was a poet, editor, author, and professor of English.
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