Preliminary Inventory of the Michael Malone Papers, circa 1970-2008
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Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Malone, Michael, 1942-
Title
Michael Malone Papers, circa 1970-2008
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
31.1 Linear Feet
23,625 Items
Abstract
23,625 Items
Best-selling author and daytime television writer from Durham, N.C.
The collection chiefly contains drafts and galleys of Malone's novels and other writings, personal and professional correspondence, and teaching materials. Also included are contracts and royalty statements, book tour materials and other promotional materials, videocassettes, audiocassettes, newspaper reviews and clippings, and digital files. The bulk of materials relate to Malone's career as a novelist and as a writer for the popular soap operas One Life to Live and Another World.
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Administrative Information
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Copyright Notice
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Michael Malone Papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Michael Malone Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a
gift in August 2008 and July 2009.
Processing Information
Accessioned by Noah Huffman, September 2008
Encoded by Noah Huffman, September 2008
Updated by Meghan Lyon, July 2009
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Michael Malone is a novelist and television writer from Durham, North Carolina. Educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University, Malone taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale but is best known for his work as an author and a writer for the soap operas One Life to Live and Another World. Malone won a 1994 Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing for his work on One Life to Live. Malone is married to Maureen Quilligan, a professor of English at Duke University. The couple reside at "Burnside," a historic home in Hillsborough, N.C.
Selected Publications-
The Delectable Mountains (1976)Dingley Falls (1980) Handling Sin (1983) Time's Witness (1989) Foolscap: Or, the Stages of Love (1991)Uncivil Seasons (1993)First Lady (2001) Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women (2002) The Last Noel (2003) The Killing Club (2005)
Collection Overview
Accession (2008-0186) (22,878 items; 30.5 lin. ft.; dated 1970s-2008) chiefly contains drafts and galleys of Malone's novels and other writings, personal and professional correspondence, and teaching materials. Also included are contracts and royalty statements, book tour materials and other promotional materials, videocassettes, audiocassettes, and digital files. The bulk of materials relate to Malone's career as a novelist and as a writer for the popular soap operas One Life to Live and Another World.
Accession (2009-0176) (750 items; 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1980s) contains two binders of clippings, newspaper articles, reviews, and publicity for Malone's novels and plays from the 1980s. Also includes 1 videotape and 1 CD from One Life to Live.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Another world (Television program)
- Authors, American--North Carolina.
- Malone, Michael, 1942-
- Novelists--North Carolina.
- One life to live (Television program)
- Soap operas--United States.
- Television writers--United States.
- Audiocassettes.
- Videocassettes.
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Preliminary Description of Collection
Michael Malone Papers, circa 1970s-2008
51 Boxes
Box 1
Promotional material, 2000-2008
Clippings
Research notes
Talks
Book tour materials
Scattered correspondence and fan mail
Box 2
Contracts and royalty statements (RESTRICTED), 1970s-2000s
Box 3
Hyperion Soap Book materials
Selma Silverstein funeral service
Carolina Anthology, 1994
Promotional materials
Box 4
Writings
The Way She Died
Directories
Personal and professional correspondence, 1990s-2000s
Defender of the Faith, etc.
Box 5
The Movie Making Marathon at Duke
Personal correspondence, 1990s-2000
North Carolina Writers' Network, 2006 Fall Conference
Promotional materials and book jackets
Box 6
Red Clay and Blue Cadillac: Draft
The Four Corners of the Sky: Draft
Box 7
The Four Corners of the Sky: Draft
Red Clay and Blue Cadillac: Draft
Other writings
Box 8
Correspondence, 1989-1991
Time's Witness: Partial draft
Box 9
The Art of Being Human: Draft, 1991
Research materials and notes for Fiction's Map, 1981
Animal Farm Revisited materials
Junk: a Musical
Talks
Box 10
Research materials for Fiction's Map, 1981
Washington Slept Here: a screenplay
Teaching materials, University of Pennsylvania
Notes on Burnside in Hillsborough, N.C.
Box 11
Ruin Creek by David Payne
Notes and writings, 1980s-1990s
Scattered correspondence, 1980s-1990s
Box 12
Correspondence, 1980s
City of Angels: a musical
Short stories and drafts
Washington Slept Here: a screenplay
Box 13
Foolscap: Draft
Unknown draft
Box 14
Playbills for musicals, 1980s-1990s
Malone C.V.
"The Scarlet Letter"
and
"Hearing the Call"
Scattered correspondence, 1990-1991
Printed materials
Writings
Teaching materials, University of Pennsylvania, for courses on musicals and
"love and war"
, 1991
Box 15
One Life to Live: Notes and plot outlines
Greeting cards, postcards, and personal correspondence
"Red Clay"
"Haunts of Broadway,"
1998
The Killing Club: Draft
The Last Noel: Draft
Box 16
Printed material
Book tour materials
The Last Noel: Draft
Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Draft
Scattered correspondence, 2000s
Box 17
Painting the Roses Red: Draft, 1974
Other drafts and notes
Box 18
Dingley on the Rampage: Draft
Uncivil Seasons: Draft
Other drafts and writings
Box 19
Correspondence, 1970s-1980s
Notebook
Box 20
Scripts, drafts, and other writings
Short stories, 1980s-1990s
Box 21
Defender of the Faith, etc.: Draft
One Life to Live, 2002
Correspondence, 1980s
Other writings
Box 22
Correspondence, 1980s
Writings, 1980s
Box 23
"Dear Colleague"
: Draft
Members Only: an Original Screenplay
Annotated drafts
Photograph contact sheets
One Life to Live, 2002
Box 24
Defender of the Faith, etc., 1981
Members Only
Dingley Falls
Box 25
Dingley on the Rampage
Photograph contact sheets, 1970s
Other writings
Box 26
Thomas Berger materials
Scattered correspondence, 1980s
Clippings regarding Elvis' death, 1977
Box 27
Handling Sin: Draft
Scattered correspondence, 1980s
Box 28
Negatives
Dingley Falls: Draft
City of Angels: Draft
Clippings
Box 29
Time's Witness
Junk: a musical
Takeover
Malone C.V.
Teaching Materials, Yale
"Washington Slept Here"
: notes
City of Angels
Scattered correspondence, 1970s-1980s
The Widow's Mite
Box 30
Assorted writings
Box 31
Handling Sin
Promotional materials
Defender of the Faith, etc.
Publicity
Box 32
Correspondence, 1970s-1990s
The Delectable Mountains
Handling Sin
Box 33
Short stories
Scattered correspondence, 1980s
Book tours, 1990s
Box 34
Appearances, 1991-1992
Correspondence, 1990s
King of the Cats
Defender of the Faith, etc.
Box 35
Scattered correspondence, 1980s-1990s
Dingley Falls
Sea Moor Dunes: a play in 3 acts
The Four Corners of the Sky
Box 36
"Mrs. Wilder's Law"
Dingley Falls
Pocket calendar, 1993-1994
Box 37
Defender of the Faith, etc.
Other writings
Box 38
Scattered correspondence
The Delectable Mountains
Other writings and short stories
Box 39
Defender of the Faith, etc.
Daytime Emmy Awards programs, 1991-1996
Red Clay, Blue Cadillac
Scattered correspondence
Promotional materials
Box 40
Animal Farm Revisited
Defender of the Faith, etc.
One Life to Live
Handling Sin: Galley
Other writings
Notes, publicity, and promotional materials
Box 41
The Delectable Mountains: Galley
Writings and notes
Box 42
"Psychetypes: A New Way of Exploring Personality"
Animal Farm Revisited
Other writings
TV work (13 Bourbon Street)
Box 43
Defender of the Faith, etc.: Draft
13 Bourbon Street: Scripts, 1996
Time's Witness: notes
Box 44
Promotional materials
Handling Sin
13 Bourbon Street: Scripts
Animal Farm Revisited
Box 45
Scattered writings
Box 46
Foolscap: Proofs
Box 47
Foolscap: Proofs
Defender of the Faith, etc.: Notes and drafts
Newspaper clippings
Box 48
Playbills, 1970s-1990s
Box 49
One Life to Live and Another World
(12 VHS tapes)
13 Bourbon Street, Episode 1, 1997
(Betacam SP)
Author talks
(4 cassette tapes)
Box 50
Digital files, circa 1994-2006
(about 150 floppy disks, 17 CDs, and 1 reel-to-reel audiotape)
Disks mostly include scripts and story outlines for One Life to Live, 13 Bourbon Street, and other Malone projects. Also included are novel drafts, some correspondence and memos, distribution lists, and other files.
[NOTE: The content of all CDs and 50 selected floppy disks have been migrated to a library server. Consult a reference archivist for access to these electronic files.]
Box 51
Handling Sin: Proof
The Delectable Mountains: Proof
Dingley Falls: Proof
Clippings
Accession (2009-0176), 1980s
(1 box)
Accession (2009-0176) (750 items; 0.6 lin. ft.; dated 1980s) contains two binders of clippings, newspaper articles, reviews, and publicity for Malone's novels and plays from the 1980s. Also includes 1 videotape and 1 CD from One Life to Live.
Box 52
Newspaper reviews, clippings, snippets, publicity materials, 1980s
One Life to Live Christmas Reel, 2003 (videotape)
13 Bourbon Street Ep. 001, 1997 (CD)
