COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
The Jay McInerney papers consist of personal correspondence, professional and publishing correspondence, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the publicity for his novel Bright Lights Big City. The collection includes manuscripts of McInerney's other published and unpublished writing, and drafts and screenplay drafts of Bright Lights Big City. The collection also includes videocassettes and audiocassettes, fan mail, two scrapbooks (dissembled) that chronicle the personal life and professional and literary presence of Jay McInerney and Merry McInerney, ephemeral items, photographs, and newsclippings.
Personal papers include letters and notes from McInerney to his wife Merry; photographs of them and their wedding; material regarding travel, particularly in Africa; incidental diary fragments; and financial and business records. Correspondents include Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher, McInerney's editor and friend Gary Fisketjon of Random House, and authors Richard Ford, Rust Hills, Paul Bowles, Julian Barnes, Tama Janowitz, Lorrie Moore, Tina Brown, Bill Buford, Gordon Lish, Tobias Wolff, and Mona Simpson.
Dates
- 1971-1989.
Creator
- McInerney, Jay. (Person)
- McInerney, Jay. (Title of work: Bright lights big city..) (Person)
- McInerney, Jay. (Title of work: Ransom..) (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Restrictions on Use:
Authors retain literary rights.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Jay McInerney is the author of Bright Lights Big City, Ransom, and other novels.
Extent
1.7 cubic feet. (1.7 cubic feet.)
Abstract
The Jay McInerney papers consist of personal correspondence, professional and publishing correspondence, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the publicity for his novel Bright Lights Big City.
SERIES LIST
- Series I. Personal correspondence
- Box 1
- Series II. Professional and publishing correspondence
- Box 2
- Series III. Manuscripts
- Box 3
- Series IV. Writings
- Box 4
- Series V. Scrapbooks
- Boxes 5-6
- Series V. Ephemera
- Boxes 7
- Series VI. Videocassettes
- See Container List
Physical Description
Personal correspondence, professional and publishing correspondence, photographs, videocassettes and audiocassettes, fan mail, two scrapbooks, ephemeral items, and newsclippings.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Phil McCray and Lisa Sasaki
- Date completed:
- October 1996
- Authors, American.
- Barnes, Julian.
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-
- Brown, Tina
- Buford, Bill
- Carver, Raymond L.
- Fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.
- Fisketjon, Gary.
- Ford, Richard, 1944-
- Gallagher, Tess
- Hills, L. Rust
- Janowitz, Tama
- Lish, Gordon
- Moore, Lorrie
- Novelists, American.
- Photographs.
- Publicity.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Scrapbooks.
- Simpson, Mona
- Whiteford, Merry.
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945-
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Phil McCray and Lisa Sasaki
- Date
- 1998
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu