Peter Prescott papers, 1965-2002

Summary

Creator:
Prescott, Peter S
Extent:
5.85 linear feet 12 boxes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Peter Prescott papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Background

Scope and content:

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and articles from Prescott's career as a book reviewer. Many of the reviews were published in Women's Wear Daily, Look Magazine, Newsweek, and the New York Times. Often placed in between pages of the scrapbooks are letters from the authors of the books Prescott reviewed. In addition, the scrapbooks hold personal correspondence, unpublished drafts, speeches, poems, articles about his career, and related materials. There are also scrapbooks with correspondence, reviews, and other clippings about Prescott's books: A World of Our Own, The Child Saved, A Darkening Green, Soundings, Never in Doubt, and The Norton Book of Short Stories (editor).

Shirley Abbott, Michael J. Arlen, Louis Auchincloss, John Calvin Batchelor, Florence Bonime, David Bosworth, James Brady, George Braziller, Brian B. Burland, Robert Coles, Tom Congdon, Margaret Creal, Robert Crichton, Jean Ennis, Douglas Fairbairn, Malcolm S. Forbes, Philip Friedman, William Gaddis, Martin Goldman, Francine Gray, Alvin Greenberg, Herbert Gutterson, David Halberstam, Jim Haskins, Park Honan, Helen Hudson, Jack D. Hunter, Suzanne Johnson, Roger Kahn, Jonathan Kandell, Murray Kempton, Joe Klein, Fernando Krahn, Richard H. Kuh, Tony Lake, Elmore Leonard, Ursula K. Le Guin, John L'Heureux, Otty Lippi, William S. McFeely, John McGahern, William McGuire, Michael Martone, Don Mitchell, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Robert Nisbet, Joyce Carol Oates, Gerald Petievich, Padgett Powell, Ellin K. Roberts, Gilbert L. Rogin, Bill D. Ross, Dr. Oliver W. Sacks, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Carolyn See, Wilfred Sheed, Theodore Solotaroff, Gay Talese, Sybil Taylor, Studs Terkel, Thomas Wallace, Paul Wilkes, Carey Winfrey, Geoffrey Wolff. Random House Inc.; Harper & Row, Publishers; E. P. Dutton & Company; Doubleday & Company, Inc. Publishers; Little, Brown and Company Publishers; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; More, A Journalism Review; The New Republic; Intellectual Digest; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.; Alfred A. Knopf; George Braziller, Inc.

Biographical / historical:

Author and a longtime book critic for Newsweek.

Acquisition information:
Source of acquisition--Anne Prescott. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--8/9/2005.
Processing information:

Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.

Papers surveyed BL 10/3/2005.

Accruals:

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Peter Prescott papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Location of this collection:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
Link to repository site
Contact:
(212) 854-5590
rbml@library.columbia.edu