Steve Katz Papers: A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center

Administrative Information

	Acquisition:	Purchase, 2006 (Reg. 15421)
	Processed by:	Hope Donovan Rider, 2007

Repository:

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Scope and Contents

	The materials in the Steve Katz Papers span his career as a writer from the 1950s to the 2000s and contain drafts of his novels and short stories, as well as personal and professional correspondence and a small amount of material associated with his college and teaching years. The collection is organized into four series: I. Works, 1940s-2007; II. Correspondence, 1942-2005; III. Personal and Career-Related, 1935-2006; IV. Works by Others, 1940s-1991.
	Series I. Works comprises the bulk of the collection. It is divided into three subseries: A. Novels and Short Story Collections; B. Short Works; and C. Journals and Notepads. Subseries A. contains drafts of all of Katz's published works, as well as many unpublished works, including his first novel, The Steps of the Sun, and a travel book about China called Jade Pork. The drafts are primarily typescripts, although there are some handwritten sections and corrections included. There are often multiple copies and versions of individual stories and novel sections. The works are arranged alphabetically by title.
	Subseries B., Short Works, contains drafts and tearsheets of short stories, poetry, and short non-fiction pieces.
	The journals and notepads in Subseries C. represent the early drafts and include notes for many of Katz's works. The notebooks contain story ideas, draft sections, and journal entries and are arranged in rough chronological order, although there are a number of undated journals. Along with the undated notebooks the collection contains the yellow legal pads Katz used while writing early longhand drafts of his works. These notepads do not have titles or dates, and are arranged in the order in which they were received.
	Series II. Correspondence is divided into two subseries: A. Family Letters; and B. Personal and Professional. Subseries A. includes many letters sent by Katz and his wife Pat to his mother during the late 1950s when he was working on his first (unpublished) novels, and the early 1960s while the family lived in Italy and Katz taught at various universities and army bases. Also present are letters sent by his father to his mother.
	Subseries B. Personal and Professional contains correspondence from his agents, including Lurton Blassingame and Georges Borchardt, as well as correspondence from other writers, artists, and personal friends. Of note is a letter written by Véra Nabokov for Vladimir Nabokov, who was a professor at Cornell during Katz's time as a student. Some of the authors and artists represented are A. R. Ammons, Peter Dean, B. H. Friedman, Jerome Klinkowitz, Harold Schimmel, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Ron Sukenick, and Richard tum Suden. These files are filed alphabetically by last name. Katz also kept a large amount of miscellaneous correspondence, some of which was labeled with titles such as "Friendly fire," and "Friendly fun." These files were placed at the end of the alphabetical files and are arranged roughly by date. The correspondence in these files is primarily from friends and acquaintances, some of whom may be represented in the alphabetical files; there are some career-related materials present as well.
	The materials in Series III. Personal and Career-Related contain professional awards, reviews of Katz's works, and photographs. The photographs include several folders of pictures taken for an "aborted car photograph piece," Katz in his Boy Scout uniform, and slides taken on family vacations to Spirit Lake at Mt. St. Helens, and Ashland, Oregon, in the late 1950s. Also included are Katz's diploma from Cornell University, and reading announcements.
	Series IV. Works of Others includes works by friends, colleagues, and students, such as Mark Leyner, as well as interviews with and works about Katz. Also present are notebooks containing an apparent autobiography written by his father, Alexander Katz, and one folder with drawings by Katz's youngest son, Rafael.

Separated Material

	Four reel-to-reel audio recordings received with the collection were transferred to the Ransom Center Sound Recordings Collection.
	One 16mm film received with the collection was transferred to the Ransom Center Moving Image Collection.
	Fourteen books received with the collection were transferred to the Ransom Center Library and are listed in the University of Texas Library Catalog.

Container List

Series I. Works, 1940s-2007

Subseries A. Novels and Short Story Collections, 1957-2007

43 Fictions (short stories, 1991)

"The Attack of the Conceptual Artists," typescript Box 1 Folder 1

"Looped in Oaxaca" and "Taking the Cave Man Seriously," typescripts and published versions in Guest Editor, edited by SK, vol.1, no. 1, Winter 1984

Box 1 Folder 2

"Why I Left Emile," typescript with corrections Box 1 Folder 3

Antonello's Lion (novel, 2006) Box 1 Folder

Typescript Box 1 Folder 4-6
Typescript with illustrations Box 1 Folder 7-10

Bunkers (play), typescript Box 1 Folder 11
Cheyenne River Wild Track (poetry, 1973) Box 2 Folder

Typescript Box 2 Folder 1
Typescript photocopy Box 2 Folder 2
Agent's photocopy Box 2 Folder 3
Proofs Box 2 Folder 4

Chicago Needs Snow (screenplay), typescript Box 2 Folder 5
Creamy & Delicious (short stories, 1970) Box 2 Folder

Note cards Box 2 Folder 6
"Blossoms," typescript and photocopies Box 2 Folder 7
"In Our Thyme," typescripts, photostatic proofs Box 2 Folder 8-9
"Kelly," typescript carbon and photocopy Box 2 Folder 10
Mythologies, typescripts and photocopies Box 2 Folder 11-12
"Nino," typescript carbon Box 3 Folder 1
"3 Satisfying Stories," typescripts and photocopies Box 3 Folder 2
Typescript sections Box 3 Folder 3-6
"Setting copy," edited typescript Box 3 Folder 7-8
Galleys (*removed to galley folders) Box 3 Folder *
Photograph proofs (*oversize photographs removed to box 43) Box 3 Folder 9*

The Exagggerations of Peter Prince (novel, 1968) Box 3 Folder

Partial typescript sections Box 3 Folder 10
Typescript segment, with letter from Peter Schjeldahl, undated Box 4 Folder 1
Partial typescript Box 4 Folder 2
"Column cut" typescripts Box 4 Folder 3-4
"Original ms with original graphics" Box 4 Folder 5-9
Graphics (*oversize photograph moved to box 43) Box 4 Folder 10*
Graphics and jacket copy typescript Box 4 Folder 11
Book jacket mock-up Box 4 Folder 12
"Some Exaggerations of Peter Prince," offprints from Chicago Review, vol. 18, no. 364 Box 4 Folder 13
Reviews Box 4 Folder 14

Florry of Washington Heights: A Novel (novel, 1987) Box 5 Folder

Typescript Box 5 Folder 1
"Working ms," corrected typescript Box 5 Folder 2-3

From the Childhood of Marcus Morocco (short stories) Box 5 Folder

Typescript, undivided, 3 copies Box 5 Folder 4-6
Typescript, divided into stories, "1 each" Box 5 Folder 7
Story typescripts, multiple copies Box 5 Folder 8
"From the Childhood of Marcus Morocco," story typescript, agent's copy Box 5 Folder 9
"From the Childhood of Marcus Morocco,""The Immortality of Rita Moll," story typescripts Box 5 Folder 10

Galoshes: A Novel by Stephanie Gatos Jr. as told to Steve Katz (novel) Box 6 Folder

Early typescript Box 6 Folder 1-2
Revised typescript with handwritten changes Box 6 Folder 3-4
Revised typescript Box 6 Folder 5-6
Typescript, revised 1997 Box 6 Folder 7
Illustrations by Rafael Katz Box 6 Folder 8
Typescript with illustrations Box 7 Folder 1-2
Typescript with illustrations, photocopy Box 7 Folder 3-4

Hex (early title Grass Land, screenplay, 1973) revised first draft, May 1971 Box 7 Folder 5
In the House of the Whales (novel) Box 7 Folder

Early draft, typescript Box 7 Folder 6-7
Typescript with handwritten changes Box 7 Folder 8
Typescript Box 8 Folder 1

Jade Pork (travel essays) Box 8 Folder

Typescript photocopy Box 8 Folder 2-3
"Choo choo China," typescript photocopy Box 8 Folder 4
"Getting to the Greatness of the Wall," typescript Box 8 Folder 5
"Imagining Guilin," typescript Box 8 Folder 6
"Introduction," and "Jade Pork," typescripts Box 8 Folder 7
"Postscript: Marrying the Barbarian," typescript Box 8 Folder 8

"Processing Pooches," typescript photocopy; "China Women," typescript photocopy, published version in Rolling Stock, nos. 12 and 14, 1987 (*removed to oversize box 43)

Box 8 Folder 9*

Journalism (poetry, 1990), typescript Box 8 Folder 10
Kelly's Thumb/Lough in Muckland (novel) Box 8 Folder

Kelly's Thumb, proposal Box 8 Folder 11
Kelly's Thumb, typescript carbon Box 8 Folder 12-13
Typescript carbon, cont'd Box 9 Folder 1-3
Lough in Muckland, "complete" typescript Box 9 Folder 4-8
Typescript fragment Box 9 Folder 9
"Lough in Muckland," story offprint from Northwest Review, Summer 1959 Box 9 Folder 10

Kissssss: A Miscellany (short stories, 2007) Box 10 Folder

"Hollywood Novelette/Agnes," typescript Box 10 Folder 1
"Nowadays and Hereafter," typescript fragments "some rewrites" Box 10 Folder 2
Typescript, "edits and rejects" Box 10 Folder 3-4

Kulik in Puglia (novel) Box 10 Folder

Typescript carbon Box 10 Folder 5
Partial typescript Box 10 Folder 6
Typescript, agent's copy Box 10 Folder 7
"The Sweet Salento, with Edmond Kulik, and Peter Stern Among the Woptimists," tearsheet from Paris Review, undated Box 10 Folder 8

Mendoza the Jew Box 10 Folder

Novel fragment, agent's copy Box 10 Folder 9
Screenplay, typescript, 2 copies Box 11 Folder 1-2

Moving Parts (short stories, 1977) Box 11 Folder

"43" Box 11 Folder

Note cards Box 11 Folder 3
Typescript photocopies Box 11 Folder 4
Corrected typescript Box 11 Folder 5
Partial typescript Box 11 Folder 6

"Female Skin,""A Parcel of Wrists," typescripts Box 11 Folder 7
"A Parcel of Wrists," typescript Box 11 Folder 8
Typescript, agent's copy Box 11 Folder 9
Typescript, cont'd Box 12 Folder 1
Typescript photocopy Box 12 Folder 2
Blue line proofs Box 12 Folder 3-7
Blue line proofs, cont'd Box 13 Folder 1
Wrist photographs Box 13 Folder 2
Illustrations, photographs, and book jacket layout (*oversize materials removed to box 43) Box 13 Folder 3*
Nashville photographs Box 13 Folder 4-5
Review in American Book Review, 1978 Box 13 Folder 6
Critical essays by others about Moving Parts Box 13 Folder 7

Posh (novel, published 1971 under pseudonym Stephanie Gatos), typescripts Box 13 Folder 8-9
Private Entrance (play) Box 13 Folder

Typescripts, notes Box 13 Folder 10
Typescript photocopy Box 14 Folder 1

Saw (novel, 1972) Box 14 Folder

Typescript Box 14 Folder 2
Typescript carbon with corrections Box 14 Folder 3
Author photographs for book jacket (*oversize photograph removed to box 43) Box 14 Folder 4*

Shining Sea (poetry), typescript Box 14 Folder 5
The Steps of the Sun (novel), typescript, circa 1957 Box 14 Folder 6
Stolen Stories (short stories, 1984) Box 14 Folder

Typescript Box 14 Folder 7-8
Typescript carbon Box 14 Folder 9
Typescript photocopy Box 15 Folder 1
Stories, various, typescripts Box 15 Folder 2

Swanny's Ways (novel, 1995) Box 15 Folder

"Original" typescript with handwritten changes Box 15 Folder 3-6
Typescripts by chapter Box 15 Folder

"Tin," two copies Box 15 Folder 7
"Comment 1" Box 15 Folder 8
"Ouida" Box 15 Folder 9
"Wine" Box 15 Folder 10
"Comment 3" Box 15 Folder 11
"Red Shift" Box 15 Folder 12
"Comment 4" Box 15 Folder 13
"Scraps" Box 16 Folder 1
"Comment 5" Box 16 Folder 2
"Justice" Box 16 Folder 3
"Comment 6" Box 16 Folder 4
"Or (a)" Box 16 Folder 5
"Or (b)" Box 16 Folder 6
"My Postscript" Box 16 Folder 7
"Now" Box 16 Folder 8

Try a Little Tenderness (Otis Redding biography film treatment), first draft typescript and photocopy, 1978 Box 16 Folder 9
The Weight of Antony (poetry, 1964), typescript Box 16 Folder 10
Wier and Pouce (novel, 1984) Box 16 Folder

"Babebies," typescript photocopy Box 16 Folder 11
"Bounce," typescript photocopy Box 16 Folder 12
"College Days," handwritten and typescript drafts Box 16 Folder 13
"The Death of Bobby Kennedy," typescript photocopy Box 16 Folder 14
"Keeper" Box 16 Folder

Early typescript fragments Box 16 Folder 15
Short story version typescript Box 16 Folder 16
Typescripts Box 16 Folder 17-18
Partial typescript, carbon Box 17 Folder 1

"Keeper,""The Message," typescripts Box 17 Folder 2
"The Messages," typescript photocopy Box 17 Folder 3
"Early with revisions," typescript Box 17 Folder 4-5
Book jacket design, reviews Box 17 Folder 6

Subseries B. Short Works, 1940s-2005 Box 17 Folder

"Adjective," typescripts Box 17 Folder 7
"Boulder Women," typescripts Box 17 Folder 8
"Contributor's Note or How I Lead My Life or Things to do While Working for Notre Dame," typescript, 3 March 1977 Box 17 Folder 9
"Explanations," for an exhibitions of paintings by Richard tum Suden (*poster removed to oversize folder) Box 17 Folder *
Juvenilia and "youthful poems," circa 1940s-1950s Box 17 Folder 10
"Knowing Henry Crow Dog," typescript Box 17 Folder 11
"The Lestriad," tearsheet from Chicago Review, Spring 1965 Box 17 Folder 12
"My Boulder Loves," typescript photocopy Box 17 Folder 13
"A Note on Richard tum Suden," typescript Box 17 Folder 14
"The Perfect Life," tearsheet from Fiction vol. 2, no. 1, with handwritten corrections Box 17 Folder 15
Poetry Box 17 Folder 16
"Poem variations revisions," typescripts, circa 2005 Box 18 Folder 1-2
"Prism behavior in Indiana," typescript, photocopies Box 18 Folder 3
Reviews by SK Box 18 Folder 4
"Shaughnessy O'Diddly Dewdrop" (children's story), handwritten draft Box 18 Folder 5
"The Song of the Man in the Next Apartment Who is Crazy and Lives Alone," tearsheet from Epoch VIII, 1957 Box 18 Folder 6
"A Story of Infidelity," offprint from Epoch, Winter 1963 Box 18 Folder 7
"Testimony for [Charles] Ross,""Prism book," typescripts Box 18 Folder 8
"Total Recall," poetry typescript Box 18 Folder 9
"Zippo Jerky," typescript Box 18 Folder 10
Untitled stories, handwritten and typed drafts Box 18 Folder 11-12
[Untitled] collaboration with Elaine McCartney, typescript Box 18 Folder 13

Subseries C. Journals and Notepads, 1961-2001, undated Box 18 Folder

Series II. Correspondence, 1942-2005

Subseries A. Family Letters, 1942-2005

Katz, Patricia Bell, from publishers re children's book, 1964-1965 Box 29 Folder 4
Katz, Sally, incoming letters Box 29 Folder

Katz, Alexander, 1942, 1948, 1950 Box 29 Folder 5-7
Katz, Steve and Patricia "Jingle" Bell, 1953-1983 Box 29 Folder 8-10
Katz, Steve and Patricia, cont'd Box 30 Folder 1-5

Katz, Steve Box 30 Folder

Family letters, to and from SK "while away," 1958-2003 Box 30 Folder 6-9
70th birthday cards and letters, 2005 Box 31 Folder 1

Subseries B. Personal and Professional, 1957-2004 Box 31 Folder

"Official," 1994-2004 Box 35 Folder 7-9
"Friendly fire," 1997-2000 Box 35 Folder 10
"More friendly fire" Box 35 Folder 11-12
"Friendly fun" Box 36 Folder 1-2
"Friendly stuff" Box 36 Folder 3-4
Unlabeled, 1957-2004 Box 36 Folder 5-9
Unlabeled, cont'd Box 37 Folder 1-2

Series III. Personal and Career-Related, 1935-2006

Astrological chart Box 37 Folder 3
The Author's Guild, membership packet Box 37 Folder 4
Awards and certificates, 1948-1952 Box 37 Folder 5
Birth certificate Box 37 Folder 6
Cape Breton house, architectural drawings (*removed to oversize folder) Box 37 Folder *
Dictionary of Literary Biography entry, circa 1983, photocopy Box 37 Folder 8
Diploma, Cornell University, 1957 (*removed to oversize box 43) Box 37 Folder *
Fellowship applications, recommendations, tenure and credentials Box 37 Folder 8
Guggenheim fellowship application Box 37 Folder 9
Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century entry re Katz, photocopy Box 37 Folder 10
Medical: Pupil's medical report, 25 February 1941; hospital card, 1947-1950 Box 37 Folder 11
Passport, issued 1960 Box 37 Folder 12
Photographs, by date Box 37 Folder

Katz, Alexander and Sally Goldstein Katz, early undated Box 37 Folder 13
Boy scout photos, with Pete Beck and George [Zograti], circa 1940s Box 37 Folder 14
"Washington Heights kids," circa late 1940s or early 1950s Box 37 Folder 15
Ashland, Spirit Lake, Eugene [Oregon slides], 1956-1959 Box 37 Folder 16
Cape Breton, 1971, 1972 Box 37 Folder 17
Cape Breton house, undated Box 37 Folder 18
Nicaragua trip group photograph, 1988 Box 38 Folder 1
"Aborted car photo piece," undated Box 38 Folder 2-4
"To Richard's with contaflex," photos from car Box 38 Folder 5
"Clarence Schmidt, Kathy [Pomer], Katz," undated Box 38 Folder 6
Unidentified, undated Box 38 Folder 7

Reading announcements Box 38 Folder 8
Receipts, 1970s Box 38 Folder 9-10
Reviews and clippings Box 38 Folder 11
Royalty statements, 1968-1973 Box 38 Folder 12
Teaching reviews, partial vita Box 39 Folder 1
Tofu instructions Box 39 Folder 2
University of Colorado Faculty Arts Award certificate, 1991 Box 39 Folder 3
Miscellaneous Box 39 Folder 4

Series IV. Works By Others, 1940s-1991

Brownstein, Michael. "When Nobody's Looking," 1981 Box 39 Folder 5
Carey, Joe. Stories and reviews Box 39 Folder 6
Emshwiller, Carol. "Four short stories," photocopy Box 39 Folder 7
Fiction Collective, author photos for book jackets (*removed to oversize box 43) Box 39 Folder *
Gallup, Dick. "Life is not a sport," poetry typescript Box 39 Folder 8
Goldfarb, Sidney Box 39 Folder

"Orange Grove," script Box 39 Folder 9
"Rushes at Tulsa," typescript Box 39 Folder 10

Guillot, Lindsay (Linne). "The Eye in the Field," typescript photocopy, circa 1980 Box 39 Folder 11
Hanna, Tom. "I make fallout too," poetry typescript photocopy Box 39 Folder 12
Heaton, William. Photographs of paintings (*poster removed to oversize folder) Box 39 Folder 13*
A Hundred Posters, issues 14, 19, 23-26, 38, unidentified Box 39 Folder 14
Inskeep, James H. "Unpainted Object from Mound Number One," Master's thesis, University of Colorado, two copies, 1980 Box 39 Folder 15-16

Karfiol, Judith Rachel. "New American Fiction and the Aesthetics of Camus and Robbe-Grillet," PhD dissertation, University of Southern California, 1978

Box 39 Folder

Chapter II, "Steve Katz: Imagination Dislocations" Box 39 Folder 17
Complete dissertation Box 40 Folder 1

Katz, Alexander Box 40 Folder

Notebooks, circa 1940s Box 40 Folder 2-7
Notebooks, cont'd Box 41 Folder 1-8
Notebooks, cont'd Box 42 Folder 1
Typescripts Box 42 Folder 2

Katz, Avrum. Photographs Box 42 Folder 3
Katz, Pat. Homegrown newsletter, 1990-1991 Box 42 Folder 4
Katz, Rafael. "The story of Yun Mi,""God's Seed,""Josh the Caucasoid," Taiwan strip and poems Box 42 Folder 5

Lieberman, Laurence. "Of Mind and World," review of Northfield Poems, by A. R. Ammons in The Hudson Review, vol. XX, no. 2, Summer 1967

Box 42 Folder 6

Lewis, Harry. "The Candy Store: Nine Pieces of Spring Candy," poetry booklet, 1978 Box 42 Folder 7
Leyner, Mark. Typescripts Box 42 Folder 8
McCaffery, Larry. "An Interview with Steve Katz," typescript, 1977 Box 42 Folder 9
Molinaro, Ursula. "Positions with White Roses," uncorrected page proofs, 9 November 1982 Box 42 Folder 10
Raworth, Tom. "Pleasant Butter," poetry typescript photocopy Box 42 Folder 11
Rocky Ledge, no. 7, February/March 1981 Box 42 Folder 12
Rolling Stock, nos. 11 and 12, 1986, no. 15/16, 1989 (*oversize materials removed to box 43) Box 42 Folder *
Ryan, Paul. "Relationships," in Talking Wood, vol. 1, no. 4, 1980 Box 42 Folder 13
Schimmel, Harold. Poetry typescripts Box 42 Folder 14
Silk, Dennis. "Silence, and Stealth of Dayes," poem, 1976 Box 42 Folder 15
Tarquini, Francesco. "Treni," typescript Box 42 Folder 16
Weatherly, Florence Lazrus. Two stories, typescripts Box 42 Folder 17
Wurlitzer, Rudolph. Excerpt from Slow Fade in Smoke Signals, 1983 Box 42 Folder 18
Yanagi IV Broadsides, various artists, 1977 (*removed to oversize folder) Box 42 Folder *

Zelevansky, Paul. The Case for the Burial of Ancestors, selections from "The Foreward," and "Book I," February 1979 (*removed to oversize box 43)

Box 42 Folder *

Unidentified poems dedicated to Katz Box 42 Folder 19
Oversize Box 43 Folder

	Creator:	Katz, Steve, 1935-
	Title:	Steve Katz Papers
	Dates:	1935-2007
	Extent:	42 boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 2 galley folders (19.36 linear feet)
	Abstract:	The materials in the Steve Katz papers span his career as a writer from the 1950s to the 2000s and contain drafts of his novels and short stories, as well as personal and professional correspondence and a small amount of material associated with his college and teaching years.
	Call Number:	Manuscript Collection MS-05003
	Language:	English

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