Indiana University Library Acquires
Kurt Vonnegut Papers
Indiana University/Bloomington’s Lilly Library has acquired the papers of author Kurt Vonnegut, including manuscripts, correspondence, first editions, and about 50 rejection slips from the 1940s.
Library Director Lisa Browar said in the September 29 Indianapolis Star that the collection was purchased last year, but the announcement was delayed to allow time to organize the material for researchers. The sale was brokered by Glenn Horowitz, a New York rare-book dealer, who said Vonnegut, who is originally from Indianapolis and received an honorary degree from the university in 1973, “was deeply committed both literally and psychologically to seeing the papers housed at Lilly Library.” The purchase price was not disclosed.
Vonnegut is the author of numerous novels, the most celebrated of which is Slaughterhouse Five, as well as hundreds of published short stories.
Lily Library also houses the principal archives of such other 20th-century authors as Upton Sinclair, Sylvia Plath, Max Eastman, and Galway Kinnell.
Posted October 4, 1999.
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