William Goldman papers, 1949-1997

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Series XI: Addition to the Papers

Gift of Jenny Goldman, 12/18/2023 (was originally a Deposit)


Subseries XI.1: Diaries & Address Book



Box 1 Diary, 1976 to 1978



Box 2 Diary, 1979-1981



Box 3 Diary, 1982 to 1984



Box 4 Diary, 1985 to 1987



Box 5 Diary, 1988 to 1990



Box 6 Diary, 1991 to 1993



Box 7 Diary, 1994 to 1997; 2001 to 2009



Box 8 Diary, 2010-2012


Box 8 Address Book


Subseries XI.2: Legal Papers



Box 9 Personal Legal Papers; Contracts/Agreements; Litigation


Subseries XI.3: Correspondence



Box 10 Envelopes marked Personal; Envelope marked James; Miscellaneous Correspondence



Box 11 VIP correspondence; Miscellaneous Correspondence


Subseries XI.4: Writings



Box 12 "William Goldman, The First Reviews" (compilation)


Box 12 Interviews with Peter Morgan and David Koepp


Box 12 Miscellaneous notes including list of movies 1950-; Death of JFK; notes on "nutty" ideas; misc. research "Material"



Box 13 "The Monkey Wrench Gang"; "The Ghost and the Darkness"; "Maverick"; misc. research "Material"



Box 14 "Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole" (written with James Goldman); "Curious George"; "The Sports Widow"; copy of Football for Dummies; research material



Box 15 "Curious George" (continued); "Control"; "Shazam" (Captain Marvel); research material



Box 17 "Flame Over India"; "Memoirs of an Invisible Man"; "Unholy City / City of Angels"; research material



Box 18 "The Loner"; "Hollywood and Screen Writing" (4 Parts); "Misery" (Screenplay, 1st and 2nd draft)



Box 19 "Misery" (Stage Play scripts in various versions)



Box 20 "Brothers"; "The Chamber"; "Chub Fuller"; "Heat"; "Hot Shot"



Box 21 "Low Fives"; "Rescue!"; "The Right Stuff"; "The Sea Kings"; "The Silent Gondoliers"; "The Vanishing Ski Bum"; "Year of the Comet"; research material


Subseries XI.5: Cassettes, Notebooks and Research



Box 8 Miscellaneous early notebooks with notes and writing ideas, 1966



Box 22 Oberlin envelope; writing ideas; research materials


Box 22 Six cassette audio tapes


Subseries XI.6: Dissertation on Goldman



Box 23 Richard Andersen, "The Fiction of Reality and Fantasy in Williams Goldman" NYU PhD


Subseries XI.7: Printed Material, Cds & DVDs


Box 23 Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne, marked up copy; Steven Linakis, In The Spring The War Ended, 2 marked up copies; various printed books by Goldman



Box 24 Various editions of The Princess Bride, including translations; various DVDs including The Princes Bride and Wordplay, Secrets of the Screenwriting Trade



Box 16 "Harry and the Butler"; "Soul Mates"; DVD Soul Mates/Flame Over India; 5 CDs of Otis Redding, James Carr, Wilson Pickett, and Sam Cooke; copy of Sweet Soul Music


Subseries XI.8: Scrapbooks



Box 25 Scrapbook 1



Box 26 Scrapbook 2 and material for Scrapbooks


Subseries XI.9: Photographs, Ephemera and Academic Awards



Box 27 Photographs and paper ephemera


Box 27 Goldman's Columbia diploma and honorary doctorate from Oberlin