Robert Bausch papers, approximately 1968-2000
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Summary
- Creator:
- Bausch, Robert
- Extent:
- 6.7 Linear Feet
4 Megabytes (approximately 600 files) - Language:
- English.
- Collection ID:
- RL.00094
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection documents the professional and creative life of writer and teacher Robert Bausch. Materials include handwritten, typed, and electronic (computerized) drafts of published and unpublished novels and essays, including The Gypsy Man, On the Way Home, Almighty Me, For God's Sake, and A Hole in the Earth; galleys and corrected proofs of his published novels; incoming andoutgoing correspondence--including copies of electronic mail--with writers, editors, readers,students, and family; a few typescripts of works by others; book and movie contracts and royalty statements; andaudiocassette tapes of Bausch's class discussions and readings by authorsGeorge Garrett, Bausch, and Bausch's twin brother Richard Bausch.
Accession 2002-0037 contains primarily typed drafts, including the final draft, of The Gypsy Man, published as The Lives of Riley Chance. Also includes print-outs of e-mail correspondence, and an informal interview of Bausch by a former student. There is no container list for this accession.
Accession 2003-0155) comprises drafts of novels and short stories by Bausch, and a hand-written draft of the novel A Bright Moon Shining by Dana Ragghianti. Novels and short stories by Bausch include For God's Sake (2 versions, one with alterations made by his editor), The Quiet Time , The White Rooster and Other Stories , and "War Story."
- Biographical / historical:
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Robert Bausch (1945-2018) was an author of novels and short stories and resident of Stafford (Stafford County), Virginia. Born in 1945, he was raised in northern Virginia.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchase, 2000-2003
- Processing information:
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Processed by Ruth E. Bryan
Completed January 11, 2001
Electronic records and Accessions 2002-0037 and 2003-0155 added by Mary Mellon, November 2024.
This collection is unprocessed: materials have not been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Subjects
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- Subjects:
- American literature -- Southern States -- 20th century
Authors, American -- Southern States -- 20th century - Format:
- Audiocassettes
Galley proofs
electronic records (digital records) - Names:
- Bausch, Richard, 1945-
Garrett, George, 1929-2008
Bausch, Robert
Bausch, Robert -- On the way home
Bausch, Robert -- A hole in the earth
Bausch, Robert -- Almighty me
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