Books by Danticat, 1954 - 2020

Series 1, Books by Edwidge Danticat, includes drafts, scrapbooks, manuscripts, corrected proofs, published copies (some including annotations), notes, fragments, and other materials related to book-length works by Danticat. Works represented include novels, memoirs, children’s books, and collections of short stories.

While this series includes the bulk of materials about book-length works by Danticat, other useful materials related to her writing practice may be found elsewhere in the collection: in Series 2 (which includes published short stories, articles, essays, and other works by Danticat); Series 3 (which includes recorded interviews of and other public appearances with Danticat speaking about her writing practice); Series 4 (which includes reviews and other coverage of works, written interviews with Danticat, and written remarks from public appearances, sometimes mentioning her works); and Series 5 (in which research notes for Danticat’s writing and personal notes are often commingled in a single notebook).

This series is further arranged into 12 subseries, one for each work with significant material in the collection as well as one subseries that includes materials related to children’s books by Danticat.