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This small collection contains manuscript drafts, correspondence, and financial documents, and it documents Owens's work writing articles for Art & Antiques in the 1980s. They reveal her fraught and obsessive composition process.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Iris Owens Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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2012.2013.M012: Source of acquisition--Ken Lopez Booksellers. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--07/17/2012.
Iris Owens (1929-2008) was a writer, native New Yorker, and Barnard alumna. She moved to Paris in the 1950s and began writing pornography under the pseudonym Harriet Daimler for Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press. Owens' first novel to be published under her own name, After Claude, was released by Farrar, Strauss& Giroux in 1973 and re-issued by New York Review of Books in 2010.
Papers processed Carrie Hintz 07/17/2012.
Fidning aid written Carrie Hintz 07/17/2012.
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