urn:taro:ttu.rb.00169 David James Duncan: An Inventory of Oversize Items, 1959-2002 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Diane Warner The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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June 13, 2008 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Dr. Diane Warner, June 2008. Finding aid written in English. Inventory for the David James Duncan Oversize Items, 1959-2002 and undated Diane Warner Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2008 Descriptive Summary Duncan, David James David James Duncan Oversize Items, 1959-2002 and undated Oversize items from the Papers of author David James Duncan from 1959-2002 and undated. R15.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 folder (9 items) English. Biographical Sketch

David James Duncan, born in Portland, Oregon in 1952, is a writer whose works include My Story as Told by Water, The Brothers K, The River Why, and River Teeth. His work deals with environmental issues, spiritual problems and fly-fishing. My Story as Told by Water, which was nominated for a National Book Award, expresses his concern about the possible extinction of the Pacific Northwest’s wild salmon. The River Why and The Brothers K received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award. The Brothers K was also named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992 and won a Best Books Award from the American Library Association. Duncan currently lives in Montana.

A list of his publications includes:

Duncan, David James. The Brothers K. New York: Bantam, 1993. Duncan, David James. River Teeth: Stories and Writings. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Duncan, David James. The River Why. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books; [Berkeley]: Distributed by University of California Press, 2002. Duncan, David James. My Story as Told by Water. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2001. Scope and Contents

The collection includes oversize items from the David James Duncan Papers, 1959-2002 and undated: broadsides, posters, and illustrations.

The collection is in good condition and is part of the James Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World.

 Organization

The items were removed from the David James Duncan Papers, 1959-2002 and undated for flat storage.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Duncan, David James Duncan, David James- --Archives Duncan, David James- --Correspondence Duncan, David James- --Manuscripts Duncan, David James- --My Story as Told By Water Duncan, David James- --The Brothers K Duncan, David James- --The River Why Duncan, David James- --River Teeth Subjects Natural history--Northwest, Pacific Fly fishing Novelists, American Salmon--Effects of dams on

Collection accession #(s): 2003-0009-X

Purchase, 2002

 Access Restrictions

Open for research. Copyright is retained by the authors of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by U.S. copyright law.

 Processed by

Dr. Diane Warner, 2008.

 Preferred Citation

David James Duncan Oversize Items, 1959-2002 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

David James Duncan Papers, 1959-2002 and undated David James Duncan Artifact Collection Rick Bass Papers, 1958-2001 and undated Max Crawford Papers, 1960-2000 and undated Gretel Ehrlich Papers, 1923-2005 and undated Edward Hoagland Papers, 1953-2007 and undated, William Kittredge Papers, 1954-2000 and undated Barry Lopez Papers, 1864-2001 and undated Barry Lopez Audio Video Collection Barry Lopez Photograph Collection Barry Lopez Photograph Collection: Apológia Walter McDonald Papers, 1945-2003 and undated Bill McKibben Papers, 1971-2001 and undated Doug Peacock Papers, 1950-2000 and undated David Quammen Papers, 1956-1999 and undated Pattiann Rogers Papers, 1960-1999 and undated Pattiann Rogers Papers, 1977-2000 Annick Smith Papers, 1940-2000 and undated Sandra Scofield Papers, 1958-2005 and undated Collection Inventory Oversize 1 1 The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Literary Excellence, 1983 1 2 Laser-copy photograph of man holding fish, accompanies the broadside, “Dedicated to David Duncan,” [2001] 1 3 Broadside, “A wild Chinook salmon, seven hundred miles” signed by Duncan, printed by Sandy Tilcock, Knight Library Press, Univ. of Oregon, top left edge slightly crinkled, Summer 2001 1 4 Poster, English Department Writers Series, Montana State University, 2002 1 5 Poster, Thirteenth Annual Wallace Stegner Lecture “Fighting Words,” 1994 1 6 Poster, Duke University Divinity School and Gothic Bookshop, [2002?] 1 7 Galley page, Patagonia, Fly Fishing, 2000 1 8 Poster, Please join: Phillip Aaberg & David James Duncan, First Methodist Church, Missoula, Montana, 2001 1 9 Color illustration, [4 panels with woman in garden representing 4 seasons], undated 1 10 Poster, Harriett Matthews, Abbott Meader, Colby College Museum of Art, (from Correspondence, Personal and Reader, 1984), April 8-30, 1984