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Peter Carey collection of papers : 1973-2001 (bulk 1980-2001).

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll MSS Carey	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

Description

15 linear feet (31 manuscript boxes).

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Carey won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the novel Jack Maggs (1997).
“Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist, known primarily for being one of only three writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times […] In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.”—From Wikipedia.

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Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Carey

OCLC

881885725

Author

Carey, Peter, 1943-

Title

Peter Carey collection of papers : 1973-2001 (bulk 1980-2001).

Imprint

[Sydney and Yandina, Australia, and New York : 1973-2001]

Access

Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

Local Note

Donated by Joshua Steiner, a member of the New York Public Library Board of Trustees, in 2003.

Collection housed in BPSE.

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Added Author

Steiner, Joshua. Donor

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Carey