An Inventory of His David Foster Wallace Collection at the Harry Ransom
Center
Creator:
Lipsky, David, 1965-
Title:
David Lipsky Collection of David Foster
Wallace
Dates:
1990-2010
Extent:
3 boxes (1.26 linear feet) and 282 electronic files (621 MB)
Abstract:
The David Lipsky Collection of David Foster
Wallace contains materials documenting the development of Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-54101
Language:
English
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The David Lipsky Collection of David Foster Wallace contains materials documenting
the
development of Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming
Yourself in which the author interviews Wallace during a five-day road trip. The
collection contains drafts and a proof with reader notations as well as research materials
including notes, copies of four published Wallace works with Lipsky’s notations, clippings,
articles, and two letters.
Related Material
Additional Wallace materials at the Ransom Center are located in the David Foster
Wallace
Papers, the David Foster Wallace Collection, the Bonnie Nadell Collection of David
Foster
Wallace, the Don DeLillo Papers, the Steven Moore Collection of David Foster Wallace,
the
Little, Brown and Company Collection of David Foster Wallace, and the James Linville
Paris
Review Collection.
Separated Material
Five audio cassette tapes, two Sony stereo cassette recorders, and a thumb drive were
transferred to the appropriate Ransom Center units.
