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Straus, Jr. After numerous changes in management and corresponding changes in name, the company became known as Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. (FSG) in 1964 when Robert Giroux became editor-in-chief. The company firmly established itself as a quality publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. FSG remained staunchly independent of conglomerate publishing for many years. Even after selling controlling interest to the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1994, FSG maintained much of the freedom of an independent publishing house."}],"prefercite":[{"value":"<p>Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}],"bioghist":[{"value":"<p><span class=\"title\">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</span></p> <p>John Farrar and Roger W. Straus, Jr. founded Farrar, Straus & Company in New York City in 1945. Farrar, of Farrar & Rinehart, left that firm in 1944 after returning from overseas duty in the Office of War Information. Straus, in addition to a background in journalism and magazine editing, had the necessary financial resources to launch a publishing house; Straus' mother was a Guggenheim, and his father's family were the Strauses who owned Macy's. The original board included Farrar as chairman, Straus as president and chief executive officer, and Stanley Young, the well-known author and literary critic for the <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>.</p> <p>The company's first title, issued under a joint imprint with Duell, Sloan & Pearce, was <span class=\"title\">Yank, the G.I Story of the War</span>, a compilation of material from <span class=\"title\">Yank</span>, the Army's famous weekly publication. The first list included James Branch Cabell's <span class=\"title\">There Were Two Pirates</span>, a posthumous collection of short stories by Stephen Vincent Bent, an historical novel by Willa Gibbs, and Theodor Reik's <span class=\"title\">Ritual: Psychoanalytic Studies</span>, none of which were substantially lucrative.</p> <p>Despite publishing such works of quality as Carlo Levi's <span class=\"title\">Christ Stopped at Eboli</span> (1947), <span class=\"title\">Shirley Jackson's The Lottery</span> (1949) and Alberto Moravia's <span class=\"title\">The Woman of Rome</span> (1949), the company remained in financial ill health until 1950. In that year, however, the firm successfully executed a number of coups saving it from ruin and placing it on the road to prominence. Early that year, (Benjamin) Gayelord Hauser, the popular fitness expert, having recently left the house of Coward-McCann, Inc., published <span class=\"title\">Look Younger, Live Longer</span>, partly ghost-written by Frances Warfield Hackett, with Farrar, Straus & Company. The book was a shot in the arm for the fledgling house, selling 300,000 copies in 1950 and 500,000 during the next ten years. The company executed another coup that year when Edmund Wilson left Doubleday due to a dispute over a legal bill and joined the Farrar, Straus & Company list. Straus also contracted for a collection of essays by Wilson which Random House had turned down the previous year. The essays were published in 1950 as <span class=\"title\">Classics and Commercials</span>, a literary chronicle of the 1940s. Wilson would remain on the company's list for the rest of his life.</p> <p>Also in 1950, Andr Gide was added to the list, and Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein's <span class=\"title\">What the Jews Believe</span> and Quentin Reynold's <span class=\"title\">Courtroom</span> proved to be bestsellers. With Young's rise to the rank of editor in December, the company underwent the first of many changes in name, becoming Farrar, Straus & Young. The following year witnessed yet another substantial step forward as the company acquired Creative Age Press from Eileen Garrett, thereby adding Robert Graves, Gerald Sykes and James Reynolds to its list.</p> <p>In 1953, the acquisition of the Chicago company of Pellegrini & Cudahy brought with it not only the children's book company of Ariel Books but also a new partner, Sheila Cudahy, who replaced Young after he resigned his managerial and editorial functions, while still remaining a member of the board. After briefly changing its name back to Farrar, Straus & Company, the firm became Farrar, Straus & Cudahy in 1955. Cudahy added many authors of Catholic interest to the firm's list. Accordingly, 1955 saw the beginning of Vision Books, a series of biographies of Catholic saints, martyrs and heroic figures designed for young (nine- to thirteen-year-old) readers. In the same vein, 1958 saw the acquisition of the Catholic publishing company of McMullen Books, Inc. The firm further established its reputation as a house of quality during the 1950s by publishing Marguerite Yourcenar's <span class=\"title\">Hadrian's Memoirs</span> as well as <span class=\"title\">The Mask of Innocence</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Lamb</span> written by the Nobel Laureate Franois Mauriac.</p> <p>In 1955, Robert Giroux joined the firm as both editor-in-chief and vice-president. Giroux's first editing experience, while a student at Columbia University, was for <span class=\"title\">The Columbia Review</span> in which he published such future Farrar, Straus & Giroux authors as John Berryman and Thomas Merton. Giroux had been editor-in-chief of Harcourt Brace & Company since 1948 when he left for Farrar, Straus bringing with him seventeen new authors including T. S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, John Berryman and Bernard Malamud. Never before had such a large number of important authors followed an editor from one house to another. In 1964, two years after Cudahy's departure, Robert Lowell's <span class=\"title\">For the Union Dead</span> became the first title to be published under the Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG) imprint. Under the combined leadership of these three men, the company firmly established itself as a quality house in the 1960s and 1970s.</p> <p>Over the years, FSG has acquired many publishing houses of quality. In 1957, the firm purchased L. C. Page & Company, a long-established publisher of children's books and reprints of classic novels (see \" Organizational History: L. C. Page\" below). The acquisition of Noonday Press, Inc. in 1960 added the Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer to the house's list. The acquisitions of Octagon Books, Inc. in 1968 and Hill & Wang, Inc. in 1971 (see \"Organizational History: Hill & Wang\" below) further strengthened the company.</p> <p>After John Farrar's retirement in 1972, and death two years later, Roger Straus took on a greater leadership role in the company, becoming a staunch opponent of conglomerate takeovers in publishing. In the late 1970s, Straus resigned from the Association of American Publishers because of what he considered to be its tendency to defend conglomerates over authors and independent publishers.</p> <p>In the 1970s and 1980s other editors shaped FSG's. In 1971, Pat Strachan was hired as an assistant editor. Strachan received her undergraduate degree at Duke University, after which she attended the Radcliffe Publishing Program, before moving to New York City. While at FSG she edited such noteworthy authors as Joseph Brodsky, John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, Derek Walcott, Larry Heinemann, Czeslaw Milosz, Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson, among others. She eventually rose to the position of vice president and associate publisher at the company before leaving in 1987 to be the fiction editor at <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>. She later worked at Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin, and Little, Brown.</p> <p>Roger Straus, Jr. and his wife Dorothea had one son, Roger Straus III. Educated at the Choate School and Columbia College, Roger III had always planned to go into publishing. In 1966, Roger III joined FSG as a junior editor before moving to the marketing department of Harper and Row in 1975, desirous to cut his own way in the profession. In 1985, Roger III returned to FSG to be an editor. Roger III sought to expand FSG's interests into more mass market books, signing and editing books like Scott Turow's <span class=\"title\">Presumed Innocent</span>. Father and son had conflicting goals and in 1993, Roger III left FSG for the final time to pursue a career of professional photography.</p> <p>Linda Healey, formerly an editor at Simon & Schuster and Berkeley books, as well as a managing editor of the <span class=\"title\">Partisan Review</span> came to FSG as a vice president, associate publisher and executive editor in 1988. Healey was hired to edit journalistic nonfiction; while at FSG she edited Stefan Kanfer, Richard Isay, Kati Marton and John McPhee, among others. Her term at FSG was prematurely shortened in 1992 due to cutbacks caused by the early 1990's recession. Healey went on to work at Pantheon Books until her retirement.</p> <p>In 1994, FSG sold controlling interest to the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a company which also owns Henry Holt and St. Martin's Press. Nonetheless, Farrar, Straus & Giroux has retained much of the freedom of an independent publishing house.</p> <p>By 1990, FSG had published the following Pulitzer Prize-winning books: <span class=\"title\">77 Dream Songs</span> (1965) by John Berryman, <span class=\"title\">The Fixer</span> (1967) by Bernard Malamud, <span class=\"title\">Collected Stories</span> (1970) by Jean Stafford, <span class=\"title\">The Dolphin</span> (1974) by Robert Lowell, <span class=\"title\">Lamy of Santa Fe</span> (1975) by Paul Horgan, <span class=\"title\">The Morning of the Poem</span> (1981) by James Schuyler and <span class=\"title\">The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love</span> (1990) by Oscar Hijuelos. Between 1945 and 1985, the firm published the work of thirteen authors who were, or who were to become, Nobel laureates. They include Joseph Brodsky, Elias Canetti, T.S. Eliot, William Golding, Nadine Gordimer, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Franois Mauriac, Czeslaw Milosz, Salvatore Quasimodo, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Derek Walcott among others.</p> <p>In addition to its many Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning authors, FSG has assured its financial independence by occasionally publishing books directed toward a popular audience. In addition to works by Gayelord Hauser, such books include David Stern's <span class=\"title\">Francis</span> (1946), a story about a talking mule; Kenneth Heuer's <span class=\"title\">Men of Other Planets</span> (1950); and Dorothy Finkelhor's <span class=\"title\">How to Make Your Emotions Work for You</span> (1952). The children's division has published numerous award-winning books including three Caldecott Medal Books, nine Caldecott Honor Books, three Newbery Medal Books, nine Newbery Honor Books, three National Book Award winners, eleven National Book Award Finalists, three Michael L. Printz Honor Books, and two Robert F. Sibert Honor Books.</p> <p><span class=\"title\">Hill & Wang</span></p> <p>Hill and Wang (H & W) was founded in 1952 by Lawrence Hill and Arthur Wang. Arthur Wang was born in 1918 in Westchester, New York and received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College. In 1942, he joined Garden City Publishing Co., a division of Doubleday, as an editor. From there he moved to Alfred A. Knopf, T.Y. Crowell, and A.A. Wyn, where he became an editor-in-chief and met Lawrence Hill, then a sales manager. Hill and Wang started their own firm with the purchase of Wyn's entire backlist of eighty-eight titles.</p> <p>Hill & Wang (H & W) earned its initial reputation by inaugurating the <span class=\"title\">Dramabooks</span> series (1952). <span class=\"title\">Dramabooks</span> originally presented the work of such drama critics as G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. Its Mermaids series also presented seventeenth-century English plays. Eventually, the works of such twentieth-century playwrights as Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Jean Anouilh, Max Frisch and Arthur Kopit were added to the <span class=\"title\">Dramabooks</span> series. <span class=\"title\">Dramabooks</span> also includes ten volumes of Lanford Wilson's plays including <span class=\"title\">Hot L Baltimore</span> (1970).</p> <p>In 1959, H & W bought the rights to twenty-six titles in the American Century series from Thomas Yoseloff. This was the beginning of extensive publishing of U.S. literature by the firm. H & W also published scholarly nonfiction in the areas of semiotics, science, and politics. The company published translations of eighteen books by Roland Barthes, <span class=\"title\">Elements of Semiology</span> (1977) and <span class=\"title\">A Lover's Discourse</span> (1977) among them. In 1979, H & W published an illustrated edition of Darwin's <span class=\"title\">The Origin of Species</span> abridged and annotated by the paleontologist Richard Leakey. In 1960, H & W published Elie Wiesel's <span class=\"title\">Night</span>, a book that over a dozen other publishers had refused. A number of political titles prepared by the American Friends Service Committee have appeared under the H & W imprint. These include <span class=\"title\">Peace in Vietnam</span> (1968), <span class=\"title\">Struggle for Justice</span> (1971) and <span class=\"title\">A Compassionate Peace</span> (1982).</p> <p>In 1971, Farrar, Straus & Giroux acquired H & W, making the company a division of FSG in the process. That same year, Hill left to form his own publishing company, Lawrence Hill & Company. Wang became editor-in-chief of the H & W division and a stockholder, vice-president and member of the board of directors of FSG until he retired in 1998.</p> <p><span class=\"title\">L.C. Page & Company</span></p> <p>In 1891, having recently graduated from Harvard, Lewis Coues Page began working for the Boston publishing firm of Estes & Lauriat. Page was soon made treasurer of the Joseph Knight Company, a division of Estes & Lauriat. When Knight resigned in 1896, Page assumed leadership of Knight's former company and renamed it L. C. Page & Company. Although L. C. Page initially published such contemporary novelists as Gabriele d'Annunzio, it soon found a niche in juvenile series including Lucy Maud Montgomery's popular <span class=\"title\">Anne of Green Gables</span> series beginning in 1908. But the greatest success of all was the 1913 publication of Eleanor Hodgman Porter's <span class=\"title\">Pollyana</span>. The story of the tirelessly cheerful young Pollyanna sold more than a million copies in its first year. The multi-volume series which followed, written mostly by other authors, led to the addition of the word \"Pollyanna\" to North American English. In addition to its series for young readers, the company published reprints of established classics by authors such as Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas.</p> <p>The literary conservatism of L.C. Page & Company, however, proved to be the undoing of its independence. Mr. Page abhorred what he called \"sophisticated literature,\" by which he evidently meant contemporary fiction especially if by a foreign author. In 1937, he declared that the great bulk of the U.S. public simply wanted reprints of classics and had no taste for more modern writing. Predictably, the company's sales declined. In 1957, the year following Page's death, his firm was acquired by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc. which had become successful publishing the very literature which Page had disdained. FSG continued the L. C. Page imprint until 1980.</p>"}],"scopecontent":[{"value":"<p>The Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Records consist of letters, book manuscripts, contracts, photographs, audio tapes and catalogs chronicling the history and ongoing concerns of Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG) and its subsidiaries, Hill & Wang (H & W) and L. C. Page & Company. The correspondents include authors, editors, other publishing companies, literary agents, attorneys, distributors, reviewers, and fans. The letters concern royalties, reprint rights, promotional efforts, contract negotiations, copy-editing, book design, foreign sales, publication dates and other concerns surrounding the publication, distribution, promotion and reprinting of FSG, H & W and L.C. Page titles. Interspersed among the correspondence are contracts and manuscripts of stories, poems and essays, some of which contain authors' notations.</p> <p>In addition to John Farrar, Roger Straus, Jr., and Robert Giroux, correspondents include other editors, Arthur Wang, Pat Strachan, Roger Straus III, and Linda Healey; and notable authors Donald Barthelme, John Berryman, T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Madeleine L'Engle, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Francis Steegmuller, Mark Van Doren, Derek Walcott, Edmund Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Marguerite Yourcenar, and many others.</p> <p>There are also files devoted wholly to the office files of the editors listed above that contain correspondence more personal in nature than what is found in the rest of the collection as well as demonstrating the close working relationship between author and editor. In a subseries marked \"Tracers,\" in Robert Giroux's files, there is business correspondence from Giroux and his administrative assistants providing a running chronicle of the day-to-day concerns of a modern publishing company. The topics include translation agreements, prospective employees and interns, manuscripts submitted for possible publication, evaluations of requests to quote from FSG authors and negotiations of contractual terms.</p> <p>The collection also contains microfilms made at FSG of book manuscripts, paper copies of which may no longer be extant. Additional items include photographs of authors and book illustrations, audio tapes of John Berryman reading from his poems, and FSG catalogs.</p>"},{"value":"<p class='list-head'>The Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records are arranged in nine series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c41013'>SERIES I. AUTHOR FILES, 1899-1998</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>719 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The author files consist of three divisional subseries: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Hill & Wang; and L. C. Page. These subseries are divided into materials from published authors, rejected authors, and subject files. Published author files are further broken down by accession date; the multiple subseries of published author files represent materials received after the preparation of the subseries before it.</p> <p>These records include correspondence, editorial material, legal and financial records, press and publicity lists, photographs and negatives. Correspondents include authors, both prospective and published, editors, other publishing companies, literary agents, attorneys, distributors, reviewers, illustrators, family members, and fans. In some cases, one can find correspondence from politicians or other note-worthies acknowledging receipt of a complimentary copy of a book or offering a promotional blurb. Editorial materials consist of typescripts, often annotated by editors and authors, holograph notes, unpublished typescript material and galley proofs, and readers' reports, usually prepared by assistant editors. Legal and financial records include contracts and negotiations, reprint rights, certificates of copyright, records of author compensation through advances and royalties, and foreign sales.</p> <p>The files are arranged alphabetically by author, preserving the original filing system with only a few minor exceptions. For each author, there is often a file of general correspondence. All correspondence concerning an author which is not about a specific book is filed in these folders. General correspondence is followed by folders pertaining to specific titles, labeled with author's name followed by title. Examples: Eliot, T.S. General Eliot, T.S. On Poetry and Poets Sontag, Susan Against Interpretation</p> <p>Under a given title, folders fall under the following headings and in the following order:</p> <p>General: Items pertaining to the title which do not fall under any of the following categories. Foreign: Items pertaining to possible sale of publication rights of title to foreign countries. Publicity: Items relating to publicity and promotion of the title including correspondence between the author and the Publicity Department. Subsidiary: Items which concern submission of the title to book clubs, reprint houses, magazines, newspapers, motion picture companies, etc., as well as all correspondence leading to the actual contract. In some cases, there are additional, self-explanatory categories such as 'Film rights' or 'Legal'. The arrangement sometimes differs from Farrar Straus's original system, however, in that if there is only a very small amount of correspondence for a given author, all of that correspondence might be placed in the 'General Correspondence' folder.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c51525'>SERIES II. GENERAL EDITORIAL FILES, 1973-1987</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>46 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of three subseries: Farrar, Straus and Giroux correspondence; Hill & Wang correspondence; and meeting minutes. These files were maintained by the secretarial staff in the editorial division. With the exception of the meeting minutes, all material is arranged alphabetically by year. Correspondents with significant material were removed to separate folders that follow the general alphabetical arrangement. Correspondence documents the general activities of the editorial department such as handling manuscript proposals submitted by agents and agencies; communicating with other publishers and book reviewers; and responding to standard inquiries and letters of introduction.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c52001'>SERIES III. EDITOR FILES</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>42 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is composed of files maintained by each editor's office. While they contain much of the same material found in previous, these files include correspondence of a more personal nature as well as editorial material that reflects the close working relationship between author and editor, and the process of development from an initial proposal to a published work. In many cases, discussions of personal and professional matters are comingled in the correspondence.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c52382'>Series IV. Children's Division</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1966-2000</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>58 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The acquisition of Ariel Books in 1953, spurred the launch of an official children's division on year later, in 1954. As of this writing, the children's division publishes books for both children and young adults. Initially called the Children's Book Department, it became Children's Books in the late 1970's before being renamed Books for Young Readers in 1980.</p> <p>This series is arranged alphabetically by author and contain correspondence, editorial material, legal and financial records, press and publicity lists, clippings of book reviews, artwork, photographs and negatives. Correspondents include authors, illustrators, editors, literary agents, attorneys, distributors, reviewers, translators, and fans. Legal and financial records include contracts and negotiations, certificates of copyright, and records of author compensation through advances and royalties. Topics covered are comprehension, literacy, and suitability of material for specific reading age stages. Notable authors represented are Isaac Asimov, Lygia Bojunga Nunes, M. B. Goffstein, Jan Greenburg, R. R. Knudson, and Jan Zalben. While these records contain materials related to most authors on FSG's roster of writers for children and young adults, older records and those of more notable authors were shifted by FSG administrative staff into Series I.A.1. Published authors.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c52576'>Series V. Subsidiary Rights</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1980-2003</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>11 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is arranged alphabetically by author and the records are fragmentary; only letters M-Z were received in the accession. This series includes correspondence, financials, memoranda, invoices, deal sheets, publicity clippings, and royalty statements, that document both domestic and international publishing rights, such as serialization, syndication and reprints. Correspondents primarily include department staff, lawyers, literary agents and representatives, and editors.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c52704'>SERIES VI. BOOK MANUSCRIPTS (MICROFILM)</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>182 reels</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of microfilmed copies of book manuscripts written mostly, but not exclusively, by FSG authors c1973-c1986, including Carlos Fuentes, Knut Hamsun, Paul Horgan, Czeslaw Milosz, Flannery O'Connor, Derek Walcott, Edmund Wilson and Tom Wolfe. The microfilms were made for FSG, and presumably the original manuscripts were returned to the author or destroyed. Manuscripts in this series include both typescripts and published versions of books including editions published by companies other than FSG. Some manuscripts consist of stories and articles taken from such magazines as xxEsquirexx and xxThe New Yorkerxx collected together for creating anthologies. Most typescript manuscripts contain either editorial remarks or author's handwritten corrections ranging from small adjustments in wording to extensive revisions. In a few cases, there are books that were not originally published by FSG but were perhaps being considered for possible republication. Notable features of this series include letters, lectures, stories, interviews and book reviews of Flannery O'Connor. These include many letters of a personal nature to Maryat Lee, an interview conducted by Betsy Locheridge and numerous typescripts of O'Connor's lectures on Catholicism, fiction and the South delivered at various educational institutions. There are lengthy passages from Edmund Wilson's xxJournalsxx often in Wilson's own hand. Reels 173 and 175 are of special interest since magazine and newspaper articles, sketches, calendar entries, advertisements, maps and telegrams are often interspersed among Wilson's journal entries.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c53003'>Series VII. Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of photographs removed from series I and III. They are typically portraits of authors and illustrations used in books</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c53174'>Series VIII. Audio tapes</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of five tape recordings of public readings and personal conversation by John Berryman and one recording of poetry read by Brian Patten, all dating from the late 1960s. Most of the Berryman readings are selections from xxThe Dream Songsxx. Berryman provides brief commentaries on some of the poems, their symbolism and the life circumstances that gave rise to them and even emotionally charged evaluations of their worth such as \"wonderful,\" \"beautiful,\" and \"junk.\" He also provides some anecdotes which he associates with several poems, for example, the experience of reading a certain poem for BBC television. There is also a discussion of Berryman's travels in and impressions of Calcutta. While the Berryman recordings are generally of high quality, some appear to be incomplete and abruptly interrupted. During one brief portion of one of the tapes, one hears different recordings simultaneously. Even though the contents of this brief part are comprehensible, listening may be difficult. Nonetheless, most of the recordings are in fine condition. The recording of Brian Patten is brief and is of him reading three poems from his book xxTo the Hurrying Manxx.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/979#c53182'>Series IX. Catalogs and Bound Volumes</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>12 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains books and periodicals removed from Series I. and contains catalogs and pamphlets of FSG and its divisions.</p></div></li></ul>\n","type":"arrangement"}],"arrangement":[{"value":"<p>The Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>SERIES I. AUTHOR FILES, 1899-1998</li> <li>SERIES II. GENERAL EDITORIAL FILES, 1973-1987</li> <li>SERIES III. EDITOR FILES</li> <li>Series IV. Children's Division, 1966-2000</li> <li>Series V. Subsidiary Rights, 1980-2003</li> <li>SERIES VI. BOOK MANUSCRIPTS (MICROFILM)</li> <li>Series VII. Photographs</li> <li>Series VIII. Audio tapes</li> <li>Series IX. 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<dd property="dcterms:extent">377.21 linear feet linear feet (893 boxes, 182 microfilm reels)</dd> <dt>Preferred Citation</dt> <dd property="dcterms:provenance"><p>Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p></dd> <dt>Repository</dt> <dd property="arch:heldBy">Manuscripts and Archives Division</dd> <dt>Access to materials</dt> <dd>Advance notice required. <a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/contacts/compose?collection_id=1964&layout=true&mode=request&org_unit_id=1" class="contact-popup">Request access to this collection.</a></dd> <dt></dt><dd class="digitized-material-note">Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.</dd></dl> </div><p class="abstract" property="schema:description dcterms:abstract">The publishing company Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. was founded in 1945 as Farrar, Straus & Company by John Farrar and Roger W. Straus, Jr. After numerous changes in management and corresponding changes in name, the company became known as Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. (FSG) in 1964 when Robert Giroux became editor-in-chief. The company firmly established itself as a quality publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. FSG remained staunchly independent of conglomerate publishing for many years. Even after selling controlling interest to the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1994, FSG maintained much of the freedom of an independent publishing house.</p><p class="sponsor-note"></p></div> </div> <div class="scrollto-section" id="bioghist"> <div class="description-section description-section-bioghist"> <h2>Biographical/historical information</h2> <div class="element bioghist" id="bioghist"><p><span class="title">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</span></p> <p>John Farrar and Roger W. Straus, Jr. founded Farrar, Straus & Company in New York City in 1945. Farrar, of Farrar & Rinehart, left that firm in 1944 after returning from overseas duty in the Office of War Information. Straus, in addition to a background in journalism and magazine editing, had the necessary financial resources to launch a publishing house; Straus' mother was a Guggenheim, and his father's family were the Strauses who owned Macy's. The original board included Farrar as chairman, Straus as president and chief executive officer, and Stanley Young, the well-known author and literary critic for the <span class="title">New York Times</span>.</p> <p>The company's first title, issued under a joint imprint with Duell, Sloan & Pearce, was <span class="title">Yank, the G.I Story of the War</span>, a compilation of material from <span class="title">Yank</span>, the Army's famous weekly publication. The first list included James Branch Cabell's <span class="title">There Were Two Pirates</span>, a posthumous collection of short stories by Stephen Vincent Bent, an historical novel by Willa Gibbs, and Theodor Reik's <span class="title">Ritual: Psychoanalytic Studies</span>, none of which were substantially lucrative.</p> <p>Despite publishing such works of quality as Carlo Levi's <span class="title">Christ Stopped at Eboli</span> (1947), <span class="title">Shirley Jackson's The Lottery</span> (1949) and Alberto Moravia's <span class="title">The Woman of Rome</span> (1949), the company remained in financial ill health until 1950. In that year, however, the firm successfully executed a number of coups saving it from ruin and placing it on the road to prominence. Early that year, (Benjamin) Gayelord Hauser, the popular fitness expert, having recently left the house of Coward-McCann, Inc., published <span class="title">Look Younger, Live Longer</span>, partly ghost-written by Frances Warfield Hackett, with Farrar, Straus & Company. The book was a shot in the arm for the fledgling house, selling 300,000 copies in 1950 and 500,000 during the next ten years. The company executed another coup that year when Edmund Wilson left Doubleday due to a dispute over a legal bill and joined the Farrar, Straus & Company list. Straus also contracted for a collection of essays by Wilson which Random House had turned down the previous year. The essays were published in 1950 as <span class="title">Classics and Commercials</span>, a literary chronicle of the 1940s. Wilson would remain on the company's list for the rest of his life.</p> <p>Also in 1950, Andr Gide was added to the list, and Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein's <span class="title">What the Jews Believe</span> and Quentin Reynold's <span class="title">Courtroom</span> proved to be bestsellers. With Young's rise to the rank of editor in December, the company underwent the first of many changes in name, becoming Farrar, Straus & Young. The following year witnessed yet another substantial step forward as the company acquired Creative Age Press from Eileen Garrett, thereby adding Robert Graves, Gerald Sykes and James Reynolds to its list.</p> <p>In 1953, the acquisition of the Chicago company of Pellegrini & Cudahy brought with it not only the children's book company of Ariel Books but also a new partner, Sheila Cudahy, who replaced Young after he resigned his managerial and editorial functions, while still remaining a member of the board. After briefly changing its name back to Farrar, Straus & Company, the firm became Farrar, Straus & Cudahy in 1955. Cudahy added many authors of Catholic interest to the firm's list. Accordingly, 1955 saw the beginning of Vision Books, a series of biographies of Catholic saints, martyrs and heroic figures designed for young (nine- to thirteen-year-old) readers. In the same vein, 1958 saw the acquisition of the Catholic publishing company of McMullen Books, Inc. The firm further established its reputation as a house of quality during the 1950s by publishing Marguerite Yourcenar's <span class="title">Hadrian's Memoirs</span> as well as <span class="title">The Mask of Innocence</span> and <span class="title">The Lamb</span> written by the Nobel Laureate Franois Mauriac.</p> <p>In 1955, Robert Giroux joined the firm as both editor-in-chief and vice-president. Giroux's first editing experience, while a student at Columbia University, was for <span class="title">The Columbia Review</span> in which he published such future Farrar, Straus & Giroux authors as John Berryman and Thomas Merton. Giroux had been editor-in-chief of Harcourt Brace & Company since 1948 when he left for Farrar, Straus bringing with him seventeen new authors including T. S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, John Berryman and Bernard Malamud. Never before had such a large number of important authors followed an editor from one house to another. In 1964, two years after Cudahy's departure, Robert Lowell's <span class="title">For the Union Dead</span> became the first title to be published under the Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG) imprint. Under the combined leadership of these three men, the company firmly established itself as a quality house in the 1960s and 1970s.</p> <p>Over the years, FSG has acquired many publishing houses of quality. In 1957, the firm purchased L. C. Page & Company, a long-established publisher of children's books and reprints of classic novels (see " Organizational History: L. C. Page" below). The acquisition of Noonday Press, Inc. in 1960 added the Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer to the house's list. The acquisitions of Octagon Books, Inc. in 1968 and Hill & Wang, Inc. in 1971 (see "Organizational History: Hill & Wang" below) further strengthened the company.</p> <p>After John Farrar's retirement in 1972, and death two years later, Roger Straus took on a greater leadership role in the company, becoming a staunch opponent of conglomerate takeovers in publishing. In the late 1970s, Straus resigned from the Association of American Publishers because of what he considered to be its tendency to defend conglomerates over authors and independent publishers.</p> <p>In the 1970s and 1980s other editors shaped FSG's. In 1971, Pat Strachan was hired as an assistant editor. Strachan received her undergraduate degree at Duke University, after which she attended the Radcliffe Publishing Program, before moving to New York City. While at FSG she edited such noteworthy authors as Joseph Brodsky, John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, Derek Walcott, Larry Heinemann, Czeslaw Milosz, Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson, among others. She eventually rose to the position of vice president and associate publisher at the company before leaving in 1987 to be the fiction editor at <span class="title">The New Yorker</span>. She later worked at Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin, and Little, Brown.</p> <p>Roger Straus, Jr. and his wife Dorothea had one son, Roger Straus III. Educated at the Choate School and Columbia College, Roger III had always planned to go into publishing. In 1966, Roger III joined FSG as a junior editor before moving to the marketing department of Harper and Row in 1975, desirous to cut his own way in the profession. In 1985, Roger III returned to FSG to be an editor. Roger III sought to expand FSG's interests into more mass market books, signing and editing books like Scott Turow's <span class="title">Presumed Innocent</span>. Father and son had conflicting goals and in 1993, Roger III left FSG for the final time to pursue a career of professional photography.</p> <p>Linda Healey, formerly an editor at Simon & Schuster and Berkeley books, as well as a managing editor of the <span class="title">Partisan Review</span> came to FSG as a vice president, associate publisher and executive editor in 1988. Healey was hired to edit journalistic nonfiction; while at FSG she edited Stefan Kanfer, Richard Isay, Kati Marton and John McPhee, among others. Her term at FSG was prematurely shortened in 1992 due to cutbacks caused by the early 1990's recession. Healey went on to work at Pantheon Books until her retirement.</p> <p>In 1994, FSG sold controlling interest to the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a company which also owns Henry Holt and St. Martin's Press. Nonetheless, Farrar, Straus & Giroux has retained much of the freedom of an independent publishing house.</p> <p>By 1990, FSG had published the following Pulitzer Prize-winning books: <span class="title">77 Dream Songs</span> (1965) by John Berryman, <span class="title">The Fixer</span> (1967) by Bernard Malamud, <span class="title">Collected Stories</span> (1970) by Jean Stafford, <span class="title">The Dolphin</span> (1974) by Robert Lowell, <span class="title">Lamy of Santa Fe</span> (1975) by Paul Horgan, <span class="title">The Morning of the Poem</span> (1981) by James Schuyler and <span class="title">The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love</span> (1990) by Oscar Hijuelos. Between 1945 and 1985, the firm published the work of thirteen authors who were, or who were to become, Nobel laureates. They include Joseph Brodsky, Elias Canetti, T.S. Eliot, William Golding, Nadine Gordimer, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Franois Mauriac, Czeslaw Milosz, Salvatore Quasimodo, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Derek Walcott among others.</p> <p>In addition to its many Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning authors, FSG has assured its financial independence by occasionally publishing books directed toward a popular audience. In addition to works by Gayelord Hauser, such books include David Stern's <span class="title">Francis</span> (1946), a story about a talking mule; Kenneth Heuer's <span class="title">Men of Other Planets</span> (1950); and Dorothy Finkelhor's <span class="title">How to Make Your Emotions Work for You</span> (1952). The children's division has published numerous award-winning books including three Caldecott Medal Books, nine Caldecott Honor Books, three Newbery Medal Books, nine Newbery Honor Books, three National Book Award winners, eleven National Book Award Finalists, three Michael L. Printz Honor Books, and two Robert F. Sibert Honor Books.</p> <p><span class="title">Hill & Wang</span></p> <p>Hill and Wang (H & W) was founded in 1952 by Lawrence Hill and Arthur Wang. Arthur Wang was born in 1918 in Westchester, New York and received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College. In 1942, he joined Garden City Publishing Co., a division of Doubleday, as an editor. From there he moved to Alfred A. Knopf, T.Y. Crowell, and A.A. Wyn, where he became an editor-in-chief and met Lawrence Hill, then a sales manager. Hill and Wang started their own firm with the purchase of Wyn's entire backlist of eighty-eight titles.</p> <p>Hill & Wang (H & W) earned its initial reputation by inaugurating the <span class="title">Dramabooks</span> series (1952). <span class="title">Dramabooks</span> originally presented the work of such drama critics as G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. Its Mermaids series also presented seventeenth-century English plays. Eventually, the works of such twentieth-century playwrights as Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Jean Anouilh, Max Frisch and Arthur Kopit were added to the <span class="title">Dramabooks</span> series. <span class="title">Dramabooks</span> also includes ten volumes of Lanford Wilson's plays including <span class="title">Hot L Baltimore</span> (1970).</p> <p>In 1959, H & W bought the rights to twenty-six titles in the American Century series from Thomas Yoseloff. This was the beginning of extensive publishing of U.S. literature by the firm. H & W also published scholarly nonfiction in the areas of semiotics, science, and politics. The company published translations of eighteen books by Roland Barthes, <span class="title">Elements of Semiology</span> (1977) and <span class="title">A Lover's Discourse</span> (1977) among them. In 1979, H & W published an illustrated edition of Darwin's <span class="title">The Origin of Species</span> abridged and annotated by the paleontologist Richard Leakey. In 1960, H & W published Elie Wiesel's <span class="title">Night</span>, a book that over a dozen other publishers had refused. A number of political titles prepared by the American Friends Service Committee have appeared under the H & W imprint. These include <span class="title">Peace in Vietnam</span> (1968), <span class="title">Struggle for Justice</span> (1971) and <span class="title">A Compassionate Peace</span> (1982).</p> <p>In 1971, Farrar, Straus & Giroux acquired H & W, making the company a division of FSG in the process. That same year, Hill left to form his own publishing company, Lawrence Hill & Company. Wang became editor-in-chief of the H & W division and a stockholder, vice-president and member of the board of directors of FSG until he retired in 1998.</p> <p><span class="title">L.C. Page & Company</span></p> <p>In 1891, having recently graduated from Harvard, Lewis Coues Page began working for the Boston publishing firm of Estes & Lauriat. Page was soon made treasurer of the Joseph Knight Company, a division of Estes & Lauriat. When Knight resigned in 1896, Page assumed leadership of Knight's former company and renamed it L. C. Page & Company. Although L. C. Page initially published such contemporary novelists as Gabriele d'Annunzio, it soon found a niche in juvenile series including Lucy Maud Montgomery's popular <span class="title">Anne of Green Gables</span> series beginning in 1908. But the greatest success of all was the 1913 publication of Eleanor Hodgman Porter's <span class="title">Pollyana</span>. The story of the tirelessly cheerful young Pollyanna sold more than a million copies in its first year. The multi-volume series which followed, written mostly by other authors, led to the addition of the word "Pollyanna" to North American English. In addition to its series for young readers, the company published reprints of established classics by authors such as Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas.</p> <p>The literary conservatism of L.C. Page & Company, however, proved to be the undoing of its independence. Mr. Page abhorred what he called "sophisticated literature," by which he evidently meant contemporary fiction especially if by a foreign author. In 1937, he declared that the great bulk of the U.S. public simply wanted reprints of classics and had no taste for more modern writing. Predictably, the company's sales declined. In 1957, the year following Page's death, his firm was acquired by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc. which had become successful publishing the very literature which Page had disdained. FSG continued the L. C. Page imprint until 1980.</p></div></div> </div> <div class="scrollto-section" id="content_structure"> <div class="description-section description-section-content-structure"> <h2>Scope and arrangement</h2> <div class="element scopecontent" id="scopecontent"><p>The Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Records consist of letters, book manuscripts, contracts, photographs, audio tapes and catalogs chronicling the history and ongoing concerns of Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG) and its subsidiaries, Hill & Wang (H & W) and L. C. Page & Company. The correspondents include authors, editors, other publishing companies, literary agents, attorneys, distributors, reviewers, and fans. The letters concern royalties, reprint rights, promotional efforts, contract negotiations, copy-editing, book design, foreign sales, publication dates and other concerns surrounding the publication, distribution, promotion and reprinting of FSG, H & W and L.C. Page titles. Interspersed among the correspondence are contracts and manuscripts of stories, poems and essays, some of which contain authors' notations.</p> <p>In addition to John Farrar, Roger Straus, Jr., and Robert Giroux, correspondents include other editors, Arthur Wang, Pat Strachan, Roger Straus III, and Linda Healey; and notable authors Donald Barthelme, John Berryman, T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Madeleine L'Engle, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Francis Steegmuller, Mark Van Doren, Derek Walcott, Edmund Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Marguerite Yourcenar, and many others.</p> <p>There are also files devoted wholly to the office files of the editors listed above that contain correspondence more personal in nature than what is found in the rest of the collection as well as demonstrating the close working relationship between author and editor. In a subseries marked "Tracers," in Robert Giroux's files, there is business correspondence from Giroux and his administrative assistants providing a running chronicle of the day-to-day concerns of a modern publishing company. The topics include translation agreements, prospective employees and interns, manuscripts submitted for possible publication, evaluations of requests to quote from FSG authors and negotiations of contractual terms.</p> <p>The collection also contains microfilms made at FSG of book manuscripts, paper copies of which may no longer be extant. Additional items include photographs of authors and book illustrations, audio tapes of John Berryman reading from his poems, and FSG catalogs.</p> <p class="list-head">The Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records are arranged in nine series:</p> <ul class="arrangement series-descriptions"> <li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c41013">SERIES I. AUTHOR FILES, 1899-1998</a></div> <div class="series-extent">719 boxes</div> <div class="series-description"><p>The author files consist of three divisional subseries: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Hill & Wang; and L. C. Page. These subseries are divided into materials from published authors, rejected authors, and subject files. Published author files are further broken down by accession date; the multiple subseries of published author files represent materials received after the preparation of the subseries before it.</p> <p>These records include correspondence, editorial material, legal and financial records, press and publicity lists, photographs and negatives. Correspondents include authors, both prospective and published, editors, other publishing companies, literary agents, attorneys, distributors, reviewers, illustrators, family members, and fans. In some cases, one can find correspondence from politicians or other note-worthies acknowledging receipt of a complimentary copy of a book or offering a promotional blurb. Editorial materials consist of typescripts, often annotated by editors and authors, holograph notes, unpublished typescript material and galley proofs, and readers' reports, usually prepared by assistant editors. Legal and financial records include contracts and negotiations, reprint rights, certificates of copyright, records of author compensation through advances and royalties, and foreign sales.</p> <p>The files are arranged alphabetically by author, preserving the original filing system with only a few minor exceptions. For each author, there is often a file of general correspondence. All correspondence concerning an author which is not about a specific book is filed in these folders. General correspondence is followed by folders pertaining to specific titles, labeled with author's name followed by title. Examples: Eliot, T.S. General Eliot, T.S. On Poetry and Poets Sontag, Susan Against Interpretation</p> <p>Under a given title, folders fall under the following headings and in the following order:</p> <p>General: Items pertaining to the title which do not fall under any of the following categories. Foreign: Items pertaining to possible sale of publication rights of title to foreign countries. Publicity: Items relating to publicity and promotion of the title including correspondence between the author and the Publicity Department. Subsidiary: Items which concern submission of the title to book clubs, reprint houses, magazines, newspapers, motion picture companies, etc., as well as all correspondence leading to the actual contract. In some cases, there are additional, self-explanatory categories such as 'Film rights' or 'Legal'. The arrangement sometimes differs from Farrar Straus's original system, however, in that if there is only a very small amount of correspondence for a given author, all of that correspondence might be placed in the 'General Correspondence' folder.</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c51525">SERIES II. GENERAL EDITORIAL FILES, 1973-1987</a></div> <div class="series-extent">46 boxes</div> <div class="series-description"><p>This series consists of three subseries: Farrar, Straus and Giroux correspondence; Hill & Wang correspondence; and meeting minutes. These files were maintained by the secretarial staff in the editorial division. With the exception of the meeting minutes, all material is arranged alphabetically by year. Correspondents with significant material were removed to separate folders that follow the general alphabetical arrangement. Correspondence documents the general activities of the editorial department such as handling manuscript proposals submitted by agents and agencies; communicating with other publishers and book reviewers; and responding to standard inquiries and letters of introduction.</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c52001">SERIES III. EDITOR FILES</a></div> <div class="series-extent">42 boxes</div> <div class="series-description"><p>This series is composed of files maintained by each editor's office. While they contain much of the same material found in previous, these files include correspondence of a more personal nature as well as editorial material that reflects the close working relationship between author and editor, and the process of development from an initial proposal to a published work. In many cases, discussions of personal and professional matters are comingled in the correspondence.</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c52382">Series IV. Children's Division</a></div> <div class="series-date">1966-2000</div> <div class="series-extent">58 boxes</div> <div class="series-description"><p>The acquisition of Ariel Books in 1953, spurred the launch of an official children's division on year later, in 1954. As of this writing, the children's division publishes books for both children and young adults. Initially called the Children's Book Department, it became Children's Books in the late 1970's before being renamed Books for Young Readers in 1980.</p> <p>This series is arranged alphabetically by author and contain correspondence, editorial material, legal and financial records, press and publicity lists, clippings of book reviews, artwork, photographs and negatives. Correspondents include authors, illustrators, editors, literary agents, attorneys, distributors, reviewers, translators, and fans. Legal and financial records include contracts and negotiations, certificates of copyright, and records of author compensation through advances and royalties. Topics covered are comprehension, literacy, and suitability of material for specific reading age stages. Notable authors represented are Isaac Asimov, Lygia Bojunga Nunes, M. B. Goffstein, Jan Greenburg, R. R. Knudson, and Jan Zalben. While these records contain materials related to most authors on FSG's roster of writers for children and young adults, older records and those of more notable authors were shifted by FSG administrative staff into Series I.A.1. Published authors.</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c52576">Series V. Subsidiary Rights</a></div> <div class="series-date">1980-2003</div> <div class="series-extent">11 boxes</div> <div class="series-description"><p>This series is arranged alphabetically by author and the records are fragmentary; only letters M-Z were received in the accession. This series includes correspondence, financials, memoranda, invoices, deal sheets, publicity clippings, and royalty statements, that document both domestic and international publishing rights, such as serialization, syndication and reprints. Correspondents primarily include department staff, lawyers, literary agents and representatives, and editors.</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c52704">SERIES VI. BOOK MANUSCRIPTS (MICROFILM)</a></div> <div class="series-extent">182 reels</div> <div class="series-description"><p>This series consists of microfilmed copies of book manuscripts written mostly, but not exclusively, by FSG authors c1973-c1986, including Carlos Fuentes, Knut Hamsun, Paul Horgan, Czeslaw Milosz, Flannery O'Connor, Derek Walcott, Edmund Wilson and Tom Wolfe. The microfilms were made for FSG, and presumably the original manuscripts were returned to the author or destroyed. Manuscripts in this series include both typescripts and published versions of books including editions published by companies other than FSG. Some manuscripts consist of stories and articles taken from such magazines as xxEsquirexx and xxThe New Yorkerxx collected together for creating anthologies. Most typescript manuscripts contain either editorial remarks or author's handwritten corrections ranging from small adjustments in wording to extensive revisions. In a few cases, there are books that were not originally published by FSG but were perhaps being considered for possible republication. Notable features of this series include letters, lectures, stories, interviews and book reviews of Flannery O'Connor. These include many letters of a personal nature to Maryat Lee, an interview conducted by Betsy Locheridge and numerous typescripts of O'Connor's lectures on Catholicism, fiction and the South delivered at various educational institutions. There are lengthy passages from Edmund Wilson's xxJournalsxx often in Wilson's own hand. Reels 173 and 175 are of special interest since magazine and newspaper articles, sketches, calendar entries, advertisements, maps and telegrams are often interspersed among Wilson's journal entries.</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c53003">Series VII. Photographs</a></div> <div class="series-extent">5 boxes</div> <div class="series-description"><p>This series consists of photographs removed from series I and III. They are typically portraits of authors and illustrations used in books</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c53174">Series VIII. Audio tapes</a></div> <div class="series-extent">1 box</div> <div class="series-description"><p>This series consists of five tape recordings of public readings and personal conversation by John Berryman and one recording of poetry read by Brian Patten, all dating from the late 1960s. Most of the Berryman readings are selections from xxThe Dream Songsxx. Berryman provides brief commentaries on some of the poems, their symbolism and the life circumstances that gave rise to them and even emotionally charged evaluations of their worth such as "wonderful," "beautiful," and "junk." He also provides some anecdotes which he associates with several poems, for example, the experience of reading a certain poem for BBC television. There is also a discussion of Berryman's travels in and impressions of Calcutta. While the Berryman recordings are generally of high quality, some appear to be incomplete and abruptly interrupted. During one brief portion of one of the tapes, one hears different recordings simultaneously. Even though the contents of this brief part are comprehensible, listening may be difficult. Nonetheless, most of the recordings are in fine condition. The recording of Brian Patten is brief and is of him reading three poems from his book xxTo the Hurrying Manxx.</p></div></li><li><div class="series-title"><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/mss/979#c53182">Series IX. Catalogs and Bound Volumes</a></div> <div class="series-extent">12 boxes</div> <div class="series-description"><p>This series contains books and periodicals removed from Series I. and contains catalogs and pamphlets of FSG and its divisions.</p></div></li></ul> </div></div> </div> <div class="scrollto-section" id="acquisition_processing"> <div class="description-section description-section-acquisition-processing"> <h2>Administrative information</h2> <div class="element acqinfo" id="acqinfo"><h3>Source of acquisition</h3><p>Purchased from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1992</p></div> <div class="element processinfo" id="processinfo"><h3>Processing information</h3><p>Processed by John Bolender, Liavon Iurevich, Susan Malsbury, Matthew Snyder.</p> <p>Processed by John Bolender, Liavon Iurevich, Susan Malsbury, Matthew Snyder .</p></div></div> </div> <div class="scrollto-section" id="controlaccess"> <div class="description-section description-section-controlaccess"><div class="element"> <h2>Key terms</h2> <h3>Names</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15294?term=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux">Farrar, Straus, and Giroux</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/4436?term=Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981">Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15298?term=Aradi, Zsolt, Dr.">Aradi, Zsolt, Dr.</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15299?term=Barthelme, Donald">Barthelme, Donald</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15300?term=Berryman, John, 1914-1972">Berryman, John, 1914-1972</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/3452?term=Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973">Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15301?term=Brodkey, Harold">Brodkey, Harold</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15302?term=Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996">Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15303?term=Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987">Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15304?term=Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994">Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15305?term=Dooley, Thomas A. 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(Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/4081?term=Purdy, James, 1914-2009">Purdy, James, 1914-2009</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/14837?term=Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957">Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/5166?term=Roth, Philip">Roth, Philip</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15334?term=Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991">Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15335?term=Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004">Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/12885?term=Soyinka, Wole">Soyinka, Wole</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15336?term=Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979">Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15337?term=Steig, William, 1907-2003">Steig, William, 1907-2003</a><li><a href="/web/20180816062117/http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/15338?term=Straus, Roger W. (Roger Williams), 1917-2004">Straus, Roger W. 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