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American Literary Studies
Gilbert Sorrentino Papers
The Papers
The Gilbert Sorrentino Papers feature the materials of literary production
of Sorrentino's creative career into 1999, including manuscripts, personal
notebooks, and
correspondence. Also present is a comprehensive collection of his papers
and teaching materials from classes taught at Stanford.
Location of the Collection: Department of Special Collections,
Green Library
Call Number: M0835
Size: 48.5 Linear feet
Finding Guide: Click here for preliminary
inventory of the collection.
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special Collections
are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections' Reading Room
in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday
through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and microfilm can be made of some
materials in the collections. For more information about the collections and
access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022,
by electronic mail at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department
of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California
94305-6004.
Career of Gilbert Sorrentino (1929 - 2006 )
Gilbert Sorrentino was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 27, 1929. His
education at Brooklyn College was interrupted in 1951 by his service in
the U. S. Army Medical Corps. In 1955 he returned to Brooklyn college, where
he founded the magazine Neon with college friends, notably Hubert
Selby Jr., Fielding Dawson, and Leroi Jones. He also served as editor for
Kulchur magazine and worked at Grove Press from 1965 - 70. He published
his first book of poems, The Darkness Surrounds Us in 1960, which
was followed by Black and White (1964) In 1965, he released his first
novel, The Sky Changes (1966), and began his teaching career with
a course at Columbia University. Although highly regarded by critics, Sorrentino's
work has always been experimental and avant-garde and gained popular attention
late, with the publication of Mulligan Stew (1979). In 1982 he joined
the faculty of Stanford University, teaching creative writing until his
retirement in 1999. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Guggenheim
Fellow in Fiction (1973, 1987), John Dos Passos Prize for Literature (1981),
Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
(1982), American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature (1985),
and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1992). He died in Brooklyn on May
18, 2006.
Bibliography of Gilbert Sorrentino
William McPheron, Gilbert
Sorrentino: A Descriptive Bibliography. Elmwood Park : Dalkey Archive
Press, 1991.
Poetry
The Darkness Surrounds Us. Highlands, NC, Jargon, 1960.
Black and White. New York, Totem, 1964.
The Perfect Fiction. New York, Norton, 1968.
Corosive Sublimate. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
A Dozen Oranges. Santa Barbara, CA Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
White Sail. Santa Barbara, California, Black Sparrow Press,1977.
Suipiciae Elegidial Elegiacs of Sulpicia. Mount Horeb, Perishable
Press, 1977.
The Orangery. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1978.
Selected Poems 1958-1980. Santa Barbara, California, Black Sparrow
Press, 1981.
A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles. New York, Grenfell Press,
1986.
Novels
The Sky Changes. New York, Hill and Wang, 1966.
Steelwork. New York, Pantheon, 1970.
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things. New York, Pantheon, 1971.
Splendide-Hotel. New York, New Directions, 1973.
Mulligan Stew. New York, Grove Press, 1979.
Aberration of Starlight. New York, Random House, 1980.
Crystal Vision. Berkeley, California, North Point Press, 1981.
Blue Pastoral. Berkeley, California, North Point Press, 1983.
Odd Number. Berkeley, California, North Point Press, 1985.
Rose Theatre. Elmwood Park, Illinois, Dalkey Archive, 1987.
Misterioso. Elmwood Park, Illinois, Dalkey Archive, 1989.
Under the Shadow. Elmwood Park, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1991.
Red the Fiend. New York : Fromm International Pub. Co., 1995
Pack of Lies. Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1997.
Gold Fools. Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1999.
Plays
Flawless Play Restored: The Masque of Fungo. Los Angeles, Black
Sparrow Press, 1974.
Essays
Something Said (essays). Berkeley, California, North Point Press,
1984.
Related Manuscript Collections at Stanford
Letters to David Markson, 1998 Sept. 3-2000 Feb. 5.
39 typed letters signed and 1 autograph note signed.
Letters to Louis H. Mackey, 1985-1999.
3 folders (82 letters)
Review of Contemporary Fiction/Dalkey Archive Press.
Records of the journal and press from 1980-1988.
Other Related Manuscript Collections
Letters
to David Markson, 1988 -1998
Special Collections, University of Delaware, Newark.
Coleman
Dowell Papers
Special Collections, New York University
Interviews online
Review
of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1981, Volume 1
Interview by John O'Brien
The Write Stuff
Interview by Alexander Laurence
Last modified:
October 31, 2011
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