Doerr, Harriet

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American writer.

From the description of Harriet Doerr papers, 1976-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866667

Biography

Harriet Doerr was born in Pasadena, California, in 1910. She has lived much of her life in Mexico and now resides in her hometown. Educated at Smith College and Stanford University in the late 1920s, she returned to Stanford in 1977 to earn a bachelor's degree and do graduate work in fiction writing. With the help of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, she wrote her first novel, Stones for Ibarra, which is set in Mexico. This book won numerous awards, among them the National Book Award for a First Work of Fiction, and has also been adapted as a film for television. She has published short stories in periodicals such as The New York Times and Atlantic. One such story, "Edie: A Life," appeared in the O. Henry Awards Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories. Harriet Doerr has also published three more books, Consider This, Señora, another novel set in Mexico, and Under an Aztec Sun and The Tiger in the Grass, two collections of short stories.

From the guide to the Harriet Doerr Papers, 1976-1996, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.)

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Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Doerr, Harriet. Harriet Doerr papers, 1976-2003. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Doerr, Harriet. Doerr, H. School of The Art Institute of Chicago, John M Flaxman Library
referencedIn Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993. Creative Writing Program : correspondence and manuscripts, 1949-1992. Stanford university libraries
referencedIn "Stanford: A Sentimental Journey" [videorecording], 1987 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Additional Papers of Alan Cheuse 1983-1991 University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn New Yorker records New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, post 1965 Bancroft Library
referencedIn Viking Press. Viking Press note from "Gary" to Harriet Doerr, no date. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Harriet Doerr Papers, 1976-1996 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Wallace Earle Stegner Creative Writing Program : correspondence and manuscripts, 1949-1992 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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associatedWith Abrahams, Billy. person
associatedWith Abrahams, Billy. person
associatedWith Adams, Alice, 1926- person
associatedWith Adams, Alice, 1926-1999. person
associatedWith Austin, Reid. person
associatedWith Cheuse, Alan. person
associatedWith Davenport, Marcia, 1903- person
associatedWith Davenport, Marcia, 1903-1996. person
associatedWith Foley, Donald L. person
associatedWith Foley, Katharine person
associatedWith Gaines, Ernest J., 1933- person
associatedWith Guérard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914- person
associatedWith Kroll, Ernest. person
associatedWith KRON-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.) corporateBody
associatedWith L'Heureux, John. person
associatedWith Miller, Clive. person
associatedWith Munro, Grant. person
correspondedWith New Yorker Magazine, Inc corporateBody
associatedWith Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993. person
associatedWith Viking Press. corporateBody
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Birth 1910-04-08

Death 2002-11-24

Americans

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