Descriptive Summary
Special Collections, University of Houston
Libraries
Storey, Gail
Donohue
Gail Donohue Storey
Papers
1974-2000
8.00 Boxes
Gail Donohue Storey is a Houston writer known for the novels The Lord's Motel and God's Country Club. She also writes poetry, essays and short fiction. Her papers consist of correspondence, typescripts, proofs, published material, articles, reviews, and interviews.
2001-002
Biographical Note
Gail Donohue Storey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 15,
1947. She earned a B.A. from Rosary College in 1969, a M.S. in Library Science
from the University of Illinois in 1973, a M.A. in liberal education from
John's College in 1982, and a M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the
University of Houston also in 1982. Storey is the author of The Lord's Motel,
God's Country Club, First Poems of Gail Donohue, articles, essays, and works of
short fiction. She has won numerous honors and awards including the Houston
Festival Prose Award in 1983; the PEN Southwest Discovery Prize, first runner
up for fiction in1983, finalist in 1984, finalist in 1988, and second honorable
mention in 1989; first prize for fiction in the Houston Orange Show in 1985; a
Yaddo fellowship in 1987; an honorable mention from the Cultural Arts Council
of Houston in 1987; and Best Fiction Award from the South Central Women's
Studies Association in 1990.
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into five series: Short Writings, Short
Fiction, Novels, Promotional Materials, and Personal Materials. The first three
series are arranged in alphabetical order by title and the last two series are
arranged in chronological order.
Index Terms
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access
subject terms.
Corporate Name:
University of Houston.
Creative Writing Program
Genre/Form of Material:
Essays
Personal
papers
Poems
Short stories
Personal Name:
Storey, Gail
Donohue
Topical Term:
Authors, American -- 20th
century
Short stories,
American
Access Restrictions
Open for research.
Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
Gail Donohue Storey Papers, 1974-2000, Courtesy of Special
Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Acquisition
This collection was donated to the University of Houston Libraries by
Gail Donohue Storey in 2002.
Detailed Description
Short Writings
1974-2000
This series includes articles, an artists' book, essays, a
libretto, poetry, notes, notebooks and her UH thesis Psychic Kissing, which
evolved into the novel The Lord's Motel. Items, both published and unpublished,
are in alphabetical order by format and then by title.
1
Articles
1
1
A Maine Escape
November 2000
1
2
Homeless in Houston
November 1989
1
3
Homeless in Houston, Transcribed Tapes
1
4
homeless in Houston, Transcribed Tapes
1
5
homeless in Houston, Transcribed Tapes
1
6
homeless in Houston, Transcribed Tapes
1
7
Houston-A "Wild West" Metropolis
February 1993
1
8
The Houston Man
December 1984
1
9
The Things we do for Love
February 1982
1
10
Writing Our Own Story as Doctors and
Nurses
Spring 1998
1
Artists' Book
1
11
Amber Goes to Yoga
1
Essays
1
12
Cockroach Consciousness
April 1984
1
13
Freeway Fantasia, The Talk of the Freeways
June 1982
1
14
Lyric Voice in "640" by Emily Dickinson
1983
1
Libretto
1
15
The Psychiatrist & From One Room to
Another [unpublished]
1983-84
Includes correspondence and interview of Gail Donohue Storey
in Opera American Style, Strides, Vol. 1, 1983.
1
Poetry
1
16
Beachmont
May 1981
1
17
First Poems of Gail Donohue, Pine Street
Press
1974
1
18
Copyedited typescript of First Poems
1
19
Page Proof of First Poems
1
20
Paper samples, style pages, and order form for First
Poems
1
21
Haiku-Sine 217 Tiny Food Poems by
Texans...
2000
1
22
Ocean & Dreams Rising
April 1978
1
23
Timepiece, Matrix II
1977
1
24
Poetic Drama: The Longing &
Claire
1980s
1
Thesis, University of Houston
1
25
Psychic Kissing [computer discs]
December 1982
1
26
Psychic Kissing [bound copy]
December 1982
2
Workshop pieces
2
1
Articles, "Bag Lady"
2
2
"Dreams"
2
3
"I"
2
4
"Diagnosis"
2
5
Plot; theme; titles; chapter headings
2
6
Fiction in progress, fragments, leftovers
2
7
"Party fragments"
2
8
"Tribute to Cosmic Absurdity"
2
9
"Texas"
2
10
"Ideas"
2
11
"The Father"
2
12
"Other episodes"
2
13
"The Poison Ivy League and other humorous
writings"
2
14
"Ireland"
1985 trip: brochures, maps, tourist information
Short Fiction
1982-2000
This series contains short stories as well as rejection letters
from various publishers. The arrangement is alphabetical by title.
7
1
Anesthesia
1984-85
7
2
Baby Hood and Freedom
October 1983
7
3
Cookies in Bed
November 1984
7
4
Francis [unpublished]
1984-85
7
5
Freeways and Freedom
October 1983
7
6
Geometry Hotline
1984-85
7
7
The Honeymoon Cottage
1982-83
7
8
I Exist By Myself in My Love for It
1983-85
7
9
I Know How to Make You Happy If I Feel Like
It
1982
7
10
The Little City [unpublished]
1982-92
7
11
Psychic Kissing
1982-86
7
12
Reading Other People's Mail
1983
7
13
The Room Where I Lay Dreaming
1980
7
14
Shortie Stories for Busy People
1984-86
7
15
Sperm No. 186, from The Bad Girls Dinner
Party
2000
7
16
Today's A Sure Thing
1986
7
17
Totally Nude Live Girls
1984
7
18
Violence: A Meditation
1984
7
19
Your Mother and I [unpublished]
1984-86
Novels
1989-1996
This series contains typescripts, computer discs, and proofs of
The Lord's Motel and God's Country Club.
The Lord's Motel
7
20
You, first typescript of The Lord's Motel
May 1989
7
21
You, first typescript of The Lord's Motel
May 1989
7
22
You, first typescript of The Lord's Motel
May 1989
7
23
Psychic Kissing, third typescript draft of The Lord's
Motel
August 1990
7
24
Psychic Kissing, third typescript draft of The Lord's
Motel
August 1990
7
25
Psychic Kissing, third typescript draft of The Lord's
Motel
August 1990
7
26
Later typescript draft
May 1991
7
27
Later typescript draft
May 1991
7
28
Later typescript draft
May 1991
8
1
Typescript draft with corrections, letter from Karen
Braziller, and notes from Tracy Daugherty
8
2
Typescript draft with corrections, letter from Karen
Braziller, and notes from Tracy Daugherty
8
3
Typescript draft with corrections, letter from Karen
Braziller, and notes from Tracy Daugherty
8
4
Various typescripts with corrections
June 1991
8
5
Various typescripts with corrections
June 1991
8
6
Various typescripts with corrections
June 1991
8
7
Various typescripts with corrections
June 1991
8
8
Various typescripts with corrections
June 1991
8
9
Copyedited typescript
September 1991
8
10
Copyedited typescript
September 1991
8
11
Copyedited typescript
September 1991
8
12
Page proofs with corrections
1992
8
13
Uncorrected bound galley proof
1992
God's Country Club
8
14
Computer discs
8
15
Uncorrected bound galley proof
May 1996
Promotional Materials
1992-1997
This series contains reviews, excerpts, articles, quotes,
photographs, and biographical information arranged in chronological order.
The Lord's Motel
8
16
Review, New York Times Book Review
August 30, 1992
8
17
Excerpt, Villages Magazine
September 1992
8
18
Article and Cover Photo, Library Journal
October 1, 1992
8
19
Reviews, various publications
1992-3
8
20
Articles, various newspapers
1992-5
8
21
Excerpt, The World and I
January 1993
8
22
Quote, Entertainment Weekly
February 11, 1994
8
23
Quote, Signature Works
April-July 1994
God's Country Club
8
24
Photographs and post cards
1996
8
25
Review, Barnes & Noble Discover Great
New Writers
Fall 1996
8
26
Review, Houston Chronicle
September 22, 29, 1996
includes pamphlet of 17th Annual Book & Author
Dinner
8
27
Excerpt, My Table
October/November 1996
8
28
Reviews, various publications
1996-7
8
29
Excerpt, WIVLA-Women in the Visual and Literary
Arts
1997
8
30
Article, San Antonio Express-News, S.A. Life
section
March 9, 1997
8
31
Biographical information
1997
Personal Materials
1970-2001
This series consists primarily of correspondence, financial
records, and photographs.
8
32
Correspondence with Donald Barthelme
1970-89
8
33
Cancelled checks
1980-87
8
34
Program, Cause for Inspiration, An Evening of
Celebration benefiting the Jung Center
May 4, 2001
8
35
University of Houston/Creative Writing Program academic
transcript for Gail Donohue
1980-82
8
36
Holiday letters
1978-2003
Holiday letters and poems by Gail Donohue, 1978-81; and by Gail
Donohue and C. Porter Storey, M.D., with attached photos, 1992-2003
8
37
Self-portrait (collage) by Gail Donohue
Storey
ca. 1994
8
38
Photographs
This series contains photographs of Gail Donohue and Donald
Barthelme (circa 1985). Others of Gail Donohue Storey, Porter Storey, Creative
Writing Program graduate students, family, friends, childhood home and other
residences. Also photos of Gail Donohue Storey by Marion Barthelme for book
jacket photo.
OVS
1
1
1
Poster for St. John's School Book Fair with news
article, "A Life Storey" by Fritz Lanham
1
2
Photograph by El Matha Wilder
ca. 1995
Study for book jacket cover for God's Country Club