Kate Jennings aggregated collection of papers

fonds

1900-2010

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Moving Images, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Musical Sound Recordings, Clippings

9661494

5.45 metres of textual material (33 boxes and 6 outsize boxes)

Kate Jennings, author, was born near Temora, NSW in 1948. She was active in feminist politics in the 1960s and 1970s and went on to become a poet, critic, essayist and novelist. In 1979 she moved to New York where she worked as a freelance writer and later as a speech writer for major investment banks Merrill Lynch and Co. and J. P. Morgan. In 1988 Kate Jennings married Bob Cato, a graphic designer, famous for his work in album cover design. In 1994 Cato was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, a condition which led Jennings to care for him until his death in 1999. Kate's brother Dare, is the co-founder of Mambo clothing.

Jennings' publications have included a book of autobiographical essays, Save Me Joe Louis (1988), short story and prose collections: Women Falling Down in the Street (1990) and Bad Manners (1993), novels: Snake (1996) and Moral Hazard (2002), and the memoir Stanley and Sophie (2008).

References:
Compiled from the collection
Australian Poetry Library, http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/ (accessed 21-10-2013)

COLLECTION 1:
Kate Jennings papers, ca. 1900-2006

COLLECTION 2:
Kate Jennings further papers, ca. 1980-2010

COLLECTION 3:
Kate Jennings further papers, 1965-1997