American Literary Studies
Barry Gifford Papers
The Papers
The Barry Gifford Papers feature the materials of literary production
of Barry Gifford' s creative career into 1997, including manuscripts,
personal notebooks, and correspondence. Also present is a comprehensive
collection of Gifford's published works in various editions and
translations.
Location of the Collection: Department of Special Collections,
Green Library
Call Number: M0927
Size: 16 boxes
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading
room of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions
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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 Barry Gifford ( 1946 - )
Poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, editor, memoirist, biographer,
and critic, Barry Gifford was born in Chicago in 1946. He attended
both the University of Missouri and Cambridge University. Beginning
a diverse career in letters as a poet with Coyote Tantras
(1973), Barry Gifford expanded his interests successfully into a
wide range of other genres. Deeply interested in the Beats, Gifford
co-authored (with Lawrence Lee) Jack's Book: An Oral Biography
of Jack Kerouac (1978). This collaboration continued with Saroyan:
A Biography (1984). His first novel was Landscape with Traveler:
The Pillow Book of Frances Reeves (1980), followed quickly the
same year by Port Tropique (1980), which earned him a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for fiction in 1982. His novel
Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula (1984) was adapted
by director David Lynch into the film Wild at Heart. Gifford
followed this popular work with the sequel Sailor's Holiday (1991).
Gifford co-founded the influential noir publishing concern Black
Lizard Books, where he served as editor until 1989. He recently
returned to collaboration with David Lynch on the screenplay for
the film Lost Highway (1997).
Link to Gifford's own website: www.barrygifford.com
Selected Biographies
Contemporary Authors New Revision #40, pp. 168 - 170.
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September 13, 2006
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