Letters from various authors to Simon Petch

MLMSS 11603

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18 December 1979-26 March 1997

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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - typescript

Simon Petch was a senior lecturer in the English Department a the University of Sydney, 1973-2006 and has published work on Philip Larkin and Janet Frame.

Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) was an American writer, producer, director and actor. He was president of American Centre, 1984-1986 and member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize in letters, 1969 and 1979; and medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters, National Book Foundation, 2005.

Janet Paterson Frame (1924-2004) was a New Zealand school teacher and writer. She studied English and French at the University of Otago and attended Dunedin Teachers' Training College. Frame started writing poetry in the 1930s and fiction in the 1950s. She won the Turnovsky Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts (1984), the New Zealand Book Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize (1989) for 'The Carpathians', and was awarded the Order of New Zealand (1990).

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a librarian and writer. He achieved a First Class Honors in English from St John's College, Oxford and completed further studies to be a librarian. He was a librarian at Shropshire, Leicester, Queen's College in Belfast, then University of Hull. He wrote poetry extensively and also wrote fiction and essays.

References:
Library correspondence file
Evans, Patrick. 2010. "Frame, Janet Paterson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Accessed 1 September 2022. https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6f1/frame-janet-
Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2013. "Norman Mailer." Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 31 August 2022. link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000063178/GLS?u=slnsw_public&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=b5c6af57.
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"Philip Larkin, 1922-1985". Poetry Foundation. Accessed 1 September 2022. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/philip-larkin

Seven letters addressed to Simon Petch, including one relating to Petch:
1 typescript letter from Janet Frame, 18 November 1992. The letter was in response to Petch's enquiry about Frame's archive and the status of her papers deposited in the Hocken Library at the University of Otago, which included Petch's article, 'Janet Frame and the languages of autobiography, published in 'Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, no. 5, 1991.

1 photocopy of a letter from Frame's literary agent Tim Curnow to Elizabeth Webby, then Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, and editor of Southerly, 9 January 1995. Frame asks Curnow about Petch's article, 'Speaking for herselves: The autobiographical voices of Janet Frame, published in 'Southerly', vol. 54, 1994-1995, and 'Contemporary literary criticism', vol. 237, 2007.

5 typescript aerogrammes from Philip Larkin relating to the publication of Petch's, 'The art of Philip Larkin', published by Sydney University Press.

1 typescript letter from Norman Mailer, 26 March 1997, in response to Petch's essay, titled, 'Norman Mailer, Gary Gilmore, and the untold stories of the law', about Mailer's 1979 novel, 'The executioner's song'.

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