CLOSED UNTIL PROCESSED, kws 2020-11-25. Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located on-site.
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Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, articles, documents.
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CLOSED UNTIL PROCESSED, kws 2020-11-25. Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Lis Harris Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
2013.2014.M166: Source of acquisition--Lis Harris. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--3/12/2014.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
Papers [processed, etc.] [initials here] mm/dd/yyyy.
Papers appraised appraiser [date].
Lis Harris is an American journalist and author and was for 25 years a staff writer on The New Yorker magazine. She is an associate professor of writing in Columbia University's MFA program. Her major publications include Holy Days: The World of the Hasidic Family (Touchstone books 1995), Rules of Engagement - Four Couples and American Marriage (Touchstone books 1996), and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze (Houghton Mifflin 2003). The scholarly value of this collection resides in Harris' research notes for the writing projects she has conducted throughout her career.