Diaries Series
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The diaries document Parker's life from 1983-1996,chiefly the years after 1986when she left American Express and devoted herself to writing full time. The documentation of Parker's life provided by her diaries is somewhat sporadic. The diaries consist of records of her day to day activities, personal reflections, story ideas, writing exercises, poetry fragments, and records of her thoughts about her work and her insecurities as a writer. Many of the entries are loose typescript or handwritten pages that appear to have been removed from notebooks. The series is arranged chronologically, though some overlap in the dating may occur where a diary covers more than one year. Parker produced annotations to the diaries in 1998in order to provide contextual information.
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Selected diaries may be used only with Ms. Parker's permission. Please contact the Rubenstein Library for more information.
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