American Literary Studies
Charlotte Painter Papers
The Papers
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Call Number: M0619
Size: 3.75 linear ft.
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading
room of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of
this finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet
Explorer version 6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version
on the Stanford server; if not, click here for the html version on the
Online Archives of California server.
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 Charlotte Painter (1926 - )
Writer, poet and educator, Charlotte Painter was born in Baton Rouge
in 1926, and studied Theater at Lousiana State University, graduating
in 1947. Her first short story was published in the New Yorker
in 1955. Her first novel, The Fortunes of Laurie Breaux (1961)
won her a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in 1962. She went on to receive her
Masters in English from Stanford in 1966, teaching at the University until
1969. She has taught creative writing at the University of California
at Berkeley, Davis, and Santa Cruz as well as at San Francisco State University.
She retired from teaching in 1991.
Highlights and Research Potential of the Charlotte Painter Papers
Personal papers from 1955-1992, including manuscripts, correspondence
and research notes for her books The Fortunes of Laurie Breaux
(1961), Who Made the Lamb (1965), Confessions from the Malaga
Madhouse (1971), Revelations: Diaries of Women (1974), Seeing
Things (1976). Also included is correspondence and audio-tape interviews
for the book Gifts of Age: 32 Remarkable Women (1985).
Bibliography of Charlotte Painter
The finding guide, available in the Reading Room of the Department of
Special Collections, contains a complete bibliography of the works of
Charlotte Painter.
Last modified:
July 5, 2006
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