Ms. Margaret Atwood papers Coll. 2014 00664 1 Gift of Margaret Atwood, 2014 Dates of creation: 1965-2014 (predominantly: 1993-2014) Extent: 19 boxes, 17 books (3 metres) Scope and content: This accession for Margaret Atwood’s papers contains publishers’ correspondence; media; promotional materials; materials related to theatre and film including adaptations of her work and librettos she has written; professional correspondence; personal correspondence; awards and honorary degrees; fan mail; press clippings; and other material related to her life and work. Contains series: Series 1: Publishers’ Correspondence, Media & Promotional Materials for Novels Series 2: Theatre & Film Series 3: Projects Series 4: Professional Activities Series 5: Professional Correspondence Series 6: Personal Correspondence Series 7: Awards and Honorary Degrees Series 8: Work on Atwood Series 9: General Media Series 10: Website and Social Media Series 11: Fan Mail Series 12: Press Clippings and Event Brochures Series 13: Interviews and Essays on Margaret Atwood Series 14: Journals, Magazines and Other Custodial history: These papers were donated to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in 2014. Notes:
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Gift of Margaret Atwood, 2014 Dates of creation: 1965-2014 (predominantly: 1993-2014) Extent: 19 boxes, 17 books (3 metres) Scope and content: This accession for Margaret Atwood’s papers contains publishers’ correspondence; media; promotional materials; materials related to theatre and film including adaptations of her work and librettos she has written; professional correspondence; personal correspondence; awards and honorary degrees; fan mail; press clippings; and other material related to her life and work. Contains series:
Series 1: Publishers’ Correspondence, Media & Promotional Materials for Novels Series 2: Theatre & Film Series 3: Projects Series 4: Professional Activities Series 5: Professional Correspondence Series 6: Personal Correspondence Series 7: Awards and Honorary Degrees Series 8: Work on Atwood Series 9: General Media Series 10: Website and Social Media Series 11: Fan Mail Series 12: Press Clippings and Event Brochures Series 13: Interviews and Essays on Margaret Atwood Series 14: Journals, Magazines and Other
Custodial history: These papers were donated to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in 2014. Notes:
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Arrangement Folder descriptions, where necessary, are taken directly from titles given by Atwood to her own folders. Shorthand notations are used throughout the finding aid and are to be translated as follows: ALS – Autograph letter signed (signed by the author of the letter, handwritten) ANS – Autograph note signed (shorter note, card, postcard, etc.) TLS – Typed letter signed (typed letter signed by hand) TNS – Typed note signed (shorter typed note or card signed by the author) TL – Typed letter not signed AL – Autograph letter not signed AN – Autograph note not signed Restrictions on access Open
SERIES 1: PUBLISHERS’ CORRESPONDENCE, MEDIA & PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS FOR NOVELS Contains correspondence, revisions for manuscripts, promotional articles, media clippings, adaptations, permissions, reviews, and other materials pertaining to Margaret Atwood's novels.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
MaddAddam : a novel 2013
1:1 Manuscript typos/corrections 2013
1:2-8 Promotional materials Includes correspondence and articles.
2013
1:9-11 Correspondence re: media 2013-2014
1:12-19 Media clippings 2013-2014
2:1-2 Launch party [Includes correspondence, notes, guest lists].
2013
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In Other Worlds : SF and the Human Imagination 2011
2:3 General Correspondence 2010-2012
2:4-8 Publishers’ correspondence 2011-2012
2:9-10 Manuscript typos/corrections 2011-2012
2:11 Permissions 2011-2012
2:12 Promotions Includes correspondence and articles.
2011
2:13-16 Media Includes correspondence and news clippings.
3:6-11 Film correspondence Includes information regarding the adaptation, contracts, some script drafts, and interview schedules.
2008-2012
3:12-13 Media [news clippings] + excerpts selected by Phil Bergerson.
2008-2009
Moral Disorder
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2006
3:14 Media Includes news clippings and articles.
2006-2009
Curious Pursuits : Occasional Writing 2005
3:15-17 Various correspondence, drafts, dust jackets, and other information related to the production of the novel.
2004
Oryx and Crake 2003
3:18-20 Media 2003-2013
3:21 Promotional material 2010-2012
SERIES 2: THEATRE & FILM Contains scripts for play and film adaptations, drafts of librettos, correspondence, research, media releases, news clippings, and other material.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
The Edible Woman [adaptations] 1999-2013
4:1 Play files for Dave Carley’s adaptation. Includes: script, stage ephemera, correspondence, and reviews.
1999-2002
4:2 Correspondence re: the play adaptation by Dave Carley
2001-2002
4:3 Draft of screenplay adapted by Sonia Sahuqillo
1999-2000
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4:4 Cerlox-bound copy of screenplay adapted by Sonia Sahuquillo
1999-2000
4:5-7 Screenplay by Francine Zuckerman [with revisions] for Markham Street Films and Z Films Inc.
2013-05
4:8 Script draft: ‘The Edible Woman’. [2013]
4:9 Media [news clippings] 2010-2013
Inanna Opera [Also known as Inanna’s Journey or Inanna’s Descent]. Music by: Randolph Peters, Libretto by: Margaret Atwood. 2000-2007
4:10-11 Correspondence and research materials 2004
4:12 Early script: ‘Inanna’s Descent’ [Incudes annotations.]
2000-08-12
Box 5 Mock-up: ‘Inanna – Act 1’ 2007
Box 5 Cerlox-bound: ‘Inanna – Act 1’. Music by: Randolph Peters. Libretto by: Margaret Atwood.
[2007]
Box 5 2 CDs from Inanna workshop (2005) Includes correspondence from Randolph Peters. 1 CD titled: ‘Inanna – Act 1 mock-up’. 1 CD titled: ‘Inanna Preview’. 2 other ‘Inanna’ CDs from Randolph Peters.
2005-2007
All the Rage [play adaptation based on Margaret Atwood’s
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‘Hairball’] by: Shannon Beaty Logeman 2012-2013
4:13-15 Draft [annotated by M.A.] 2012-03
4:16-18 Draft [annotated by M.A.] 2012-06-04
4:19-21 Draft 2013-01-16
4:22 Casting choices
The River Door: Opera 1999-2000
6:1 News clippings, re: libretto on the life of poet, Pauline Johnson.
1999
6:2-6 Correspondence – includes letters between M.A. and Randolph Peters and Richard Bradshaw; as well as a letter from Randolph Peters to Richard Bradshaw, re: Pauline’s music.
1999-2000
6:7-10 Various drafts [1999-2000]
Pauline Johnson Opera 2006-2013
6:11-19 Background information/research on Pauline Johnson and script drafts [including revisions and annotations].
[2006-2009]
6:20-26 Correspondence between M.A. and Charles Barber [also includes script drafts with revisions].
2006-2011
7:1 Correspondence and media releases. 2008-2009
7:2 Older news release from the Canadian Opera Company
1999-11-26
7:3 Toronto Star article by Martin Knelman 2008-03-12
7:4 Production schedule for November 2012-June 2014 – Pauline Prospectus, World Premiere on Vancouver 2014.
2012-2014
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7:5 Draft [cerlox-bound]: ‘Pauline : a chamber in two acts’ by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes. October 2013 workshop draft, includes notes.
2013-10
Box 5 VHS tape: ‘The Canadians: Pauline Johnson’.
Other
7:6 Draft: ‘Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda’ [Early version]
2013-12
7:7 Documentary film proposal, re: Margaret Atwood in the 1970s. Proposal by: Marmie Charndoff, Alex Park and Peter Walsh.
1974
Box 5 Renée Nault illustrations. [2000s]
SERIES 3: PROJECTS Contains short stories, introductions for books, articles, mentorship programs, blog-posts, and other projects. Arranged chronologically.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
7:8 Story for Crimespotting (2009) anthology: ‘Pretend Blood’, pp. 25-48.
Contains copy of story from anthology. 2009
7:9 Article for The Guardian: ‘Time Capsule Found on a Dead Planet’ (September 2009).
Contains print-out of the article, correspondence, and notes.
2009-09
7:10 The New York Review of Books article: ‘Atwood in the Twittersphere’
Contains blog post from April 2010, draft and Toronto Star article entitled, ‘Margaret Atwood learns to love Twitter’ [published on Saturday, April 10, 2010].
2010-03 – 2010-04
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7:11-15 Story: ‘Stone Mattress’ for The New Yorker (December 19 & 26, 2011 issue), pp. 122-133.
Contains various drafts edited by M.A., Deborah Treisman and Phoebe Larmore; proofs; a copy of The New Yorker and other media related to ‘The Stone Mattress’.
2011
7:16 Article for The Guardian: ‘Underbrush Man’ (November 7, 2011).
Contains print-out of the article 2011-11
7:17-18 Contribution to Shadow Show : All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (c2012)
Contains correspondence and other information related to book.
2011-2013
7:19-22 Story: ‘I Dream of Zenia With The Big Red Teeth’ for The Walrus (July/August 2012), pp. 58-63.
Contains correspondence with Nic Boshart (The Walrus), Shelley Ambrose (The Walrus), Liz Calder, Nick Mount, drafts with revisions, media clippings about article, and a copy of The Walrus.
2012
7:23-25 Introduction for Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (2013)
Contains various drafts of the introduction with revisions, notes, and correspondence.
2013
7:26 The New York Review of Books – NYRblog article: ‘Deeper Into the Twungle’.
Contains copy of the blog post. 2012-03
7:27 The New York Review of Books – NYRblog: ‘Dreams’.
Contains draft of blog post. 2012-04
7:28 Introduction for Jiro Asada’s The Stationmaster (2013)
Contains draft of the introduction with revisions.
2013-04
7:29 Article for Elle Canada: ‘The First Time I Almost Died’.
Contains some correspondence, and draft of article with revisions.
2013-07
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7:30 Article for The Guardian: ‘Writing the Blind Assassin’ (September 2013).
Includes draft of the article with a note. 2013-09
7:31 Article in Harper’s Bazaar: ‘Through the Wardrobe’ (September 2013).
Contains draft of the article, a cut-out of the article from Harper’s Bazaar, and a note.
2013-09
7:32 Article for the New York Times Book Review: ‘The Purloined Email’ (October 3, 2013).
Contains some correspondence, a holograph draft of the article, and a WP-draft of the article (200-250 words).
2013
7:33 Article on climate change in Canadian Living/Huffington Post (October 2013)
Contains correspondence regarding article. 2013
7:34 Media comments, re: Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize win
Contains correspondence and articles regarding M.A.’s comments about Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize win.
2013-03 – 2014-02
7:35 Article for WIRED: ‘Dispatches from 2024’ (February 2014)
Contains draft of the article. 2014-02
7:36 Tribute for Coleen Grissom (February 2014)
Contains correspondence and draft for Coleen Grissom tribute.
2014-02
7:37 Article for Financial Times Weekend: ‘Why readers and writers are so fixated with dystopian visions’ (March 14, 2014).
Contains WP draft of article and print out from Financial Times website.
2014-03
7:38 Short essay entitled ‘Instructions for the Third Eye’ for An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short Stories,
Contains copy of M.A.’s essay, ‘Instructions for the Third Eye.’
2014
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Prose, Poems, Brief Essays and Other Short Prose Forms. Edited by Alan Ziegler.
SERIES 4: PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
Mentorship
8:1-4 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative - a year of mentoring.
Contains correspondence and other information regarding the Rolex Mentorship program, and M.A.’s mentoring of her protégé, Naomi Alderman. Margaret Atwood mentored Naomi for a year (2012-2013); they even co-wrote a zombie novella for Canadian digital platform, Wattpad.
2011-2014
Reviews Books reviewed by Margaret Atwood.
8:5 The New York Times Book Review - Stephen King’s ‘Doctor Sleep.
Contains correspondence and draft of review from August 2013.
2013-08
8:6-8 The New York Book Review - Dave Eggers’s ‘Circle’.
Contains correspondence, drafts, galleys, notes and a copy of The New York Book Review (November 21, 2013 / vol. LX, no. 18).
2013
8:9 Sojourners Magazine – Leah Kostamo’s ‘Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community.’
Contains a copy of the review from February 2014.
2014-02
8:10 Review of Montenegrin translation of Atwood’s The
Contains copy of review entitled: ‘Words…Words…Words: The Novel, the
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Penelopiad produced by Toronto-based April Purgatorio Festival in 2012 in Tivat, Montenegro.
Play, the Production’ by: Dragana Varagic and Kathleen Irwin.
Notes Notes for previously published novels.
8:11 Notes Holograph notes for The Penelopiad (1 page).
8:12 Notes Holograph notes for The Robber Bride (1 page).
Presentations and Speeches
8:13 Speech for The Duthie Lecture in Michigan
Speech: ‘Five Visits to the World Hoard’ presented for The Duthie Lecture in Michigan.
2005
8:14 Norton Rose presentation [Read by Margaret Atwood at Admiral].
Contains draft of the presentation that M.A. was filmed reading.
2014-05-05
Canada Reads 2014
8:15-19 Canada Reads Contains correspondence and information (re: interviews and the contest) related to Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood being nominated for Canada Reads 2014.
2014
SERIES 5: PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
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8:20-24 Publishers’ Correspondence: Random House + McClelland & Stewart
Contains various correspondence, some drafts and ephemera relating to M.A.’s work with Random House and McClelland Stewart.
1986-2013
9:1 Publishers’ Correspondence: Virago Press
Contains various correspondence as well as dust jackets for Murder in the Dark, Good Bones, Alias Grace, The Wilderness Tips, Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride.
SERIES 7: AWARDS AND HONORARY DEGREES Contains awards and honorary degrees Margaret Atwood has received.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
Prince of Asturias Award
11:13-15 Articles and correspondence, re: award. 2008
11:16 Speech for Asturias Award 2008
11:17 Media, re: Prince of Asturias Award 2008
11:18 Other correspondence and information, re: award.
2009-2011
Awards [various] Arranged chronologically.
11:19 Awards Contains correspondence and news clippings.
2000
11:20 Awards Contains correspondence. 2002
11:21 Awards Contains Chicago Tribune, re: Chicago Tribune Literary Prize.
2005
11:22 Awards Contains correspondence and news clipping.
2006
11:23-24 Awards Contains correspondence, certificate and news clippings.
2007
11:25 Awards Contains correspondence and news clippings.
2008
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11:26 Awards Contains information about award. 2010
11:27 Awards Contains correspondence, ephemera and news clippings.
2011-2012
11:28 Awards Contains correspondence and news clippings.
2013
11:29-30 Awards Contains general information about various awards ranging from 1986-2010.
1986-2010
Honorary Degrees
11:31 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal.
1991
11:32 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Open University Honorary Degree.
1994-1995
11:33 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from McMaster University and an Honorary DLitt from the University of Warwick.
1996
11:34 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Degree of Doctor of Letters from Oxford University; Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association; Honorary Degree from Lakehead University.
1998
11:35 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Degree from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
2005
12:1 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award.
2010
12:2 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Ryerson and notice of being on Queen’s University’s list of ‘Canada’s Most Powerful Women.’
2011
12:3 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Doctorate of Literature from the National University of Ireland. Includes photographs.
2011
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12:4 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris & Lifetime Achievement Award.
2012
12:5 Honorary Degrees Contains information re: Doctorate from the University of Athens.
2012
12:6 Honorary Degrees Other [contains correspondence and news clippings.]
2000-2005
SERIES 8: WORK ON ATWOOD Contains various projects, essays, and articles about Margaret Atwood.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
12:7-14 Work on Atwood Contains various correspondence, interviews, essays, articles regarding work done on Margaret Atwood.
1988-2013
SERIES 9: GENERAL MEDIA Contains news clippings, articles, and correspondence regarding media related to the life and work of Margaret Atwood.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
12:15-20, 13:1-13:5
General media Contains newspaper clippings and print-outs, re: M.A.
2006-2013
13:6-18 General media – not book specific
Contains newspaper clippings, correspondence re: media on M.A. that is not specific to her writing.
1996-2014
SERIES 10: WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Contains information regarding Margaret Atwood’s website and Twitter account.
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BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
14:1-12 Margaret Atwood website Contains information regarding the home page for the website.
1995-2002
14:13 Media update Contains information re: media update for M.A. website.
2002-2004
14:14 McClelland & Stewart website Contains information, re: M.A. on McClelland & Stewart website.
2001
14:15-19 Twitter & Social Media Contains correspondence and print-outs from M.A.’s Twitter account.
2010-2013
SERIES 11: FAN MAIL Contains fan mail to Margaret Atwood.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
14:20-22, 15:1-3
General fan mail. Contains correspondence from M.A.’s fans/readers.
1998-2013
15:4-14 ‘Fantastic’ fan mail. Contains correspondence from M.A.’s fans/readers labelled ‘fantastic’.
1990-2013
SERIES 12: PRESS CLIPPINGS AND EVENT BROCHURES Contains press clippings and other ephemera related to events Margaret Atwood has attended.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
16:1-3 Press clippings and Events Correspondence and other ephemera re: press clippings and events.
1997-2013
Box 17 Press clippings and Events Various magazines, press clippings and other ephemera that related to M.A. appearances, lectures, projects, novels.
1990s-2014
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SERIES 13: INTERVIEWS AND ESSAYS ON MARGARET ATWOOD Contains interviews and essays regarding Atwood.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
16:4 Interview Interview by: Giuliana Nigro. Includes correspondence and interview.
1993
16:5 Thesis Undergraduate thesis on Atwood: ‘Truth Resists Simplicity: Margaret Atwood’s Resistance of (Gender) Stereotype in The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye by Hans Bak.
2012
16:6 Essay High school essay on Atwood: ‘It’s An All Right Life – A Study on Canadian Literature’ by: Guy Quenneville.
2013
SERIES 14: JOURNALS, MAGAZINES AND OTHER Contains interviews and essays regarding Atwood.
BOX : FILE # TITLE CONTENTS DATE(S)
Box 18 Journals, Magazines, Other Advanced reading copy: ‘Stone Mattress’ Talese/Doubleday. Reader’s Digest April 2014 A Story Larger Than My Own - women writers look back on their lives and careers Brick, a literary journal winter 2014 A Brick Reader (50 Writers on Life, Art, Writing from 22 years of Brick, A Literary Journal)
1995-2014
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2014 Get to Know contest calendar Montecristo, 5th anniversary issue Sojourners, February 2014 Bokvennen litter/ert magasin 2014 Reader’s Digest, May 2013 Der Neue Roman Von - Die Geschichte Von Zeb -Berlin Verlag magazine Quest Reviews pamphlet, April 1995 Ad from University of Toronto press Margaret Atwood Studies, Vol. 7 - Fall 2013 Between the Pages, Nov. 4th, 2013 (Giller)
Box 19 Journals, Magazines, Other Mentor Protégé, Issue 4, October 2013 Margaret Atwood & Naomi Alderman Complete and unabridged Good Bones & Simple Murders & The Tent (audio) MaddAddam (audio) In Other Worlds e-book (U.K. edition and U.S. edition) River Door floppy disks
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Books: 1. Atwood, Margaret. Oryx en Crake & Het Jaar Van De Vloed. Amsterdam : Prometheus, 2013. 2. Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. Canada Reads 2014 Edition. 3. Atwood, Margaret. MaddAddam. Amsterdam : Prometheus, 2013. 4. Atwood, Margaret. Up In The Tree. Beijing : New Star Press, 2013. 5. Atwood, Margaret. Rövarbruden. Norstedts : Stockholm, 2013. 6. Atwood, Margaret. Oryx und Crake. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, 2014. 7. Atwood, Margaret. De Perséfone a Pussycat : voz e identidad en la poesía. Mexico : Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2013. 8. Atwood, Margaret. Der blinde Mörder, Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, 2014. 9. Atwood, Margaret. Das Jahr Der Flut. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, 2014. 10. Atwood, Margaret. Moralische Unordnung. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, 2014. 11. Atwood, Margaret. Die Geschichte von Zeb. Berlin : Berlin Verlag Taschenbuch, 2013. 12. Atwood, Margaret. ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ. 2013. 13. Atwood, Margaret. Όρυξ και Κρέικ, 2009. 14. Dinesen, Isak. [With an introduction by Margaret Atwood]. Seven Gothic Tales. London : Folio Society, 2013. 15. Halliday, John. Don’t Bring Me No Rocking Chair - Poems on Ageing. [Contains poem by Margaret Atwood on page 176.] 16. Virago is 40 : A Celebration.