Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market

by Amy Hildreth Chen

Book Overview

The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.

The market for contemporary authors'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625344856
• ISBN13: 9781625344854
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"