Descriptive Summary
Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-
.
Nadine Gordimer Short Stories
and Novel Manuscripts
1958-1965
TXRC96-A41
.5 Box (.21 linear
feet)
Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
This collection contains typescripts for thirteen short stories
and one novel.
English.
Biographical Sketch
Nadine Gordimer, novelist and short story writer, was born in Springs,
South Africa, in 1923. She spent her childhood in Transvaal, and began writing
at an early age, publishing her first short story,
Come Again Tomorrow, when she was 15. At 21,
Gordimer briefly attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg where she
was exposed to the social and political atmosphere of South Africa, which would
become the focus of her works. Gordimer married twice -- first in 1949 to G.
Gavron, with whom she has a daughter, and then to Reinhold Cassirer in 1954.
They have a son.
Gordimer remained in Johannesburg and her works reflect the racially
turbulent themes of South Africa's history. She has published ten novels. Her
first was the semi-autobiographical
The Lying Days (1953), which was followed by
A World of Strangers (1958),
Occasion for Loving (1963),
The Late Bourgeois World (1966),
A Guest of Honour (1971),
The Conservationist (1974),
Burger's Daughter (1979),
July's People (1981),
A Sport of Nature (1987), and
My Son's Story (1990).
Gordimer's short stories have been published in various magazines such
as the
New Yorker,
Harpers, and the
Yale Review. They have also been published
in several collections, including
Face to Face (1949),
Friday's Footprint (1960), and most
recently,
Jump (1991).
Nadine Gordimer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She
continues to live in and write about South Africa.
Scope and Contents
The Nadine Gordimer collection, 1958-1965, consists of fourteen
corrected typescripts, including thirteen short stories and one novel. There is
no material relating to Gordimer's personal life or correspondence. The works
are arranged alphabetically.
The collection contains material relating to Gordimer's early work as a
South African novelist and short story writer. It includes a draft of
Gordimer's second novel,
A World of Strangers (1958), and the
thirteen short stories that have been collected and published in
Friday's Footprint (1960) and
Not for Publication (1965).
As well as providing Gordimer's impressions of South Africa, the
corrected typescripts offer insight into Gordimer's writing process.
A World of Strangers is prefaced by an
author's plan that outlines the novel's plot.
Acquisition
Gift of Joseph Jones, 1962
Access
Open for research
Processed by
Katie Salzmann, 1995; Sarah Demb, 1996
Index Terms
Subjects
Short stories, South
African.
Novelists, South
African.
South African
fiction.
Nadine Gordimer Collection--Folder List
Works,
1958-1965
1
1
Friday's Footprint
(1960)
The Gentle Art
(1960)
Harry's Presence
(1960)
An Image of Success
(1960)
Little Willie
(1960)
The Night the Favourite Came Home
(1960)
One Last Kiss
(1960)
1
2
Our Bovary
(1960)
The Path of the Moon's Dark
Fortnight
(1960)
Something for the Time Being
(1965)
A Style of Her Own
(1960)
A Thing of the Past
(1960)
Through Time and Distance
(1965)
1
3-4
A World of Strangers
(1958)