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Connie May Fowler Collection, 1990-1998

 

Summary

Extent:
7 Hollinger Boxes
4.08 Linear Feet (7 containers)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Connie May Fowler Collection, The Bienes Museum of Modern Book, Broward County Library

Background

Scope and content:

The Connie May Fowler Collection documents the career of Florida novelist Connie May Fowler from 1990 to 1998. The collection is comprised of manuscripts, prepress proofs, galleys, newspapers articles, correspondence, interviews, speeches, a VHS cassette, and a teleplay script. The materials highlight some of Fowler's work such as "Sugar Cage", "Ave Erzulie", "Before Women had Wings", "Sparrow Hunter", "River of Hidden Dreams", "Onedia Looney", and "Listening For Light". The collection also contains a manuscript of "Charms For Easy Life" by the author Kaye Gibbons.

The collection is comprised of manuscripts, prepress proofs, galleys, newspapers articles, correspondence, interviews, speeches, and scripts documenting the career of Connie May Fowler, an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, poet, and teacher

Biographical / historical:

Connie May Fowler (C. M. Fowler) was born in North Carolina on January 3, 1960 and lived in Florida, Vermont and Mexico. She is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, poet, and teacher. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Tampa University, a Master of Arts degree in the University of Kansas, and became a core faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA).C. M. Fowler is the author of 8 books: How Clarissa Burden Learned How to Fly; Sugar Cage; River of Hidden Dreams; The problem with Murmur Lee; Remembering Blue; Before Women Had Wings; A Million Fragile Bones; and, When Katie Wakes. Her work has been translated in 18 languages and is published worldwide. Fowler explores in her novels Southern themes such as interracial connections and relationships between black and white women with a Floridian background. Fowler's inspiration in her novels is based on her family life and experience lived in Central Florida.

She is the recipient of the Chatauqua South Library Award, the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and the Francis Buck Award from the League of American Pen Women. Three of her novels have been Dublin International Literary Award nominees. She also directs the the Vermont College of Fine Arts Novel retreat held each May in Montpellier, Vermont. For ten years, she directed various writing conferences in Florida, including the St-Augustine Writers Conference. From 1997-2003 she directed the Connie May Fowler Women Wings Foundation, an organization that served at risk women and children. From 2003–2007, she was the Irving Bacheller Professor of Creative Writing at Rollins College and directed their author series "Winter With the Writers."

Acquisition information:
Connie May Fowler donated the collection to the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book on February 11, 1997. She donated an accrual on July 31, 1997.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into five series: Series I: Manuscripts, Series II: Newspaper articles, Interviews, Speeches, Series III: Writing by others, Series IV: Correspondence, and Series V: Audiovisual materials.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The Connie May Fowler collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

Connie May Fowler Collection, The Bienes Museum of Modern Book, Broward County Library

Location of this collection:
Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, Broward County Library
100 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale
FL
33301
USA