ketchinsusan Inventory of the Susan Ketchin Papers, 1980-1994 Processed by: Rubenstein Library staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Jen Snow and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: June 2011Processed by Rubenstein Library staff; finding aid encoded by Jen Snow and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, June 2011 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Inventory of the Susan Ketchin Papers, 1980-1994 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

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 Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Ketchin, Susan. Susan Ketchin Papers, 1980-1994 Material in English 10.5 Linear Feet 4800 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Susan Ketchin was an author, editor, and educator. The Susan Ketchin Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of her writings and the writings of others, reviews, publications, printed matter, teaching materials, and other papers relating principally to her work with the St. Andrews Review, Southern Exposure, the Algonquin Press, and the Duke Young Writers Camp. Some papers also concern free-lance work. Access to the Roper, Benson, and August House papers is restricted. One large group of materials was generated in the process of producing and writing The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. These materials include research files, audio tapes of interviews with authors featured in the book (Doris Betts, Randall Kenan, Allan Gurganus, Lee Smith, Larry Brown, Sheila Bosworth, and others), and typescripts. Other authors represented in the papers but whose interview tapes are not present are Reynolds Price and Clyde Edgerton. A video featuring Lee Smith is also included. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Susan Ketchin Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

 Provenance

The Susan Ketchin Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1992 and 1995.

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Encoded by Jen Snow and Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, June 2011

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 1992-0075, 1995-0065

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 Biographical Note

Susan Ketchin was an author, editor, and educator.

The Susan Ketchin Papers span the years from about 1980 through 1994, and consist chiefly of professional correspondence, manuscripts of her writings and the writings of others, reviews, publications, printed matter, teaching materials, and other papers relating principally to her work with the ST. ANDREWS REVIEW, SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, the Algonquin Press, and the Duke Young Writers Camp. Some papers also document her freelance work. Access to the Roper, Benson, and August House papers is restricted; for details, please contact the Rubenstein reference staff. One large group of materials was generated in the process of producing and writing THE CHRIST-HAUNTED LANDSCAPE: FAITH AND DOUBT IN SOUTHERN FICTION. These materials include research files, audio tapes of interviews with authors featured in the book (Doris Betts, Randall Kenan, Allan Gurganus, Lee Smith, Larry Brown, Sheila Bosworth, and others), and typescripts. Other authors represented in the papers but whose interview tapes are not present are Reynolds Price and Clyde Edgerton. A video featuring Lee Smith is also included.

[Original audiovisual materials are closed to use. Use of these materials may require production of listening or viewing copies. Please contact a reference archivist before coming to use this collection.]

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Smith, Lee, 1944- Betts, Doris. Kenan, Randall. Gurganus, Allan, 1947- Brown, Larry, 1951-2004. Bosworth, Sheila. Price, Reynolds, 1933- Edgerton, Clyde, 1944- Authors, American--Southern States--Interviews. American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism. American fiction--Christian authors--History and criticism. Christian fiction, American--History and criticism. Southern States--Church history--20th century. Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction. Contents of Collection Susan Ketchin Papers, 1980-1994 (4 boxes)

Chiefly papers documenting Ketchin's work for the literary magazines Southern Exposure and the St. Andrews Review, and for Algonquin Press. Also includes some teaching material and freelance work, along with songs, music, and sermons. Contents are in original folder order as received.

 1Southern Exposure working papers; St. Andrews Review volumes 2Southern Exposure; songs, music, sermons; freelance work 3Algonquin Press; teaching materials 4Loose papers, unprocessed Addition 95/065, 1980-1994 (3 boxes)

Chiefly folders on Ketchin's research on religious themes in Southern literature, culminating in her work, The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Includes production work, publisher-related and fan correspondence, interview tapes and transcripts with major Southern authors, and permissions files.

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 1Publicity/marketing contacts for Christ-Haunted Landscape 1Acceptance

Current.

 1Responses to The Christ-Haunted Landscape 1General Correspondence 1Submissions and rejections of individual interviews 1University of Mississippi 1Classwork and grades, 1990-1991 1Table of Contents - Religion in Southern Fiction 1Interview questions 1Summary, Table of Contents, About Editor 1Proposal letter 1Interviews out to literary magazines 1Returns from publishers - LSU 1Prospective publishers 1Interested in presses - Mississippi, St. Martin's, Ballantine 1Permissions 1Potential authors for book 1E. Spencer Story - A Christian Education 1Bebe Moore Campbell 1Nanci Kincaid Background - Religion in Southern Fiction 1Articles by Ralph C. Wood 1Ideas and markets for Book 1Newspaper articles 1Journal articles 1Notes, proposal, letter package, Table of Contents, editor 1Walker Percy

Includes Ralph C. Wood's article.

 1Bibliography and printouts 1The Introduction Parts of the book 1Table of Contents - page count 1Introduction Various notes University of Mississippi 1Copy of MA - sent 1992 June 1 1Mississippi letterhead Permissions 1Various permissions - correspondence and releases 1Reprint series/University of Mississippi 1More permission correspondence 1Permissions - back file Doris Betts 1Interview and commentary 1Story - This is the Only Time I'll Tell It 1Correspondence 1Symposium address - My Local Mount Moriah 1Various Sheila Bosworth 2Interview and commentary 2Story 2Correspondence 2Old versions, etc. 2Drafts, notes Larry Brown 2Interview and commentary 2Story - Samaritans 2Correspondence 2Southern Quarterly 2For Book Mary Ward Brown 2Interview and commentary 2Story - A New Life 2Correspondence 2Various Will D. Campbell 2Interview and commentary 2Story - Cecilia's Sin 2Correspondence 2Various

Including versions of interview.

 Harry Crews 2Interview and commentary 2Story - excerpt from The Gospel Singer 2Correspondence 2Various 2Clyde Edgerton 2Story - excerpt from Raney 2Correspondence 2Interview and commentary 2for book Sandra H. Flowers 2Interview and commentary 2Story - Hope of Zion 2Correspondence 2Various Allan Gurganus 2Story - It Had Wings 2Correspondence 2Interview and commentary 2Southern Review - Correspondence 2Old drafts Randal Kenan 2Interview and commentary 2Correspondence 2Story - The Strange and the Tragic Ballad of Mabel Pearsall 2Various 2Old drafts Reynolds Price 3Loose material 3Story - Full Day 3Selected bibliography 3Various 3Correspondence 3Interview and commentary 3The Georgia Review Lee Smith 3Interview and commentary 3Story - Tongues of Fire 3Correspondence 3Various 3Various audiovisual and audio resources

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