Robert Olen Butler Writings, 1980-2004, bulk 1940-1978
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Butler, Robert Olen
- Extent:
- 3.00 boxes 3 boxes
- 4.20 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Robert Olen Butler Collection, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2007-006
Background
- Scope and content:
These materials consist of first editions, first reissued editions, limited editions, a first trade edition, and uncorrected proof copies of Robert Olen Butler's novels and short stories, published from 1980-2004, and are signed or inscribed by Butler. The collection includes his Pulitzer Prize-winning short story anthology, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. There is also a letter from Simon and Schuster about his novel The Deuce, and a brochure from Cloud Books, which provides further information about these writings. The collection is particularly valuable to students of creative writing and to literary researchers.
- Biographical / historical:
American writer Robert Olen Butler was born January 20, 1945 in the small steel-mill town of Granite City, Illinois. His father, Robert Olen Sr., is a retired actor and former chairman of the theater department at Saint Louis University. His mother, Lucille Hall Butler, is a retired executive secretary, and her stories about Granite City during the Depression were the inspiration for his fifth novel, Wabash (1987).
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased December 2006 from Cloud Hill Books, 223 West 11th Street, New York, NY.
- Processing information:
Processed in May 2007 by Burt Altman.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Americans--France--Fiction
Art--Collectors and collecting--Fiction
Fiction--Authorship
First person narrative.
Man-woman relationships--United States--Fiction
Men--United States--Sexual behavior--Fiction
Millennium (Eschatology)--Fiction
Self in literature.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Fiction. - Names:
- Butler, Robert Olen, 1945-
Access and use
- Restrictions:
Collection is open to all researchers.
- Terms of access:
Copyright has not been transferred to the Florida State University Libraries.
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Robert Olen Butler Collection, Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2007-006
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
