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Plante, David, 1940-

 Person

Biography

David Robert Plante is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist. The son of Albina Bisson and Aniclet Plante, he is of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent. He is a graduate of Boston College and the Université catholique de Louvain.

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

David Plante papers, 1963-1982

 Collection
Identifier: 1981-007
Scope and Contents Consist of handwritten, typed, carbon copy typed and photocopied typescripts, galley proofs and page notes, of short stories, television scripts, and novels including The Family and The Woods (2 novels in the trilogy, The Francoeur Novels) and one segment, “Jean" in Difficult Women; also included are handwritten notes and typescripts from Plante’s collaboration with Jean Rhys for Smile Please, 2 manuscript notebooks, 67 carbon copy typescript reader’s reports submitted by Plante (each...
Dates: 1963 - 1982

Jean Rhys archive

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-011
Scope and Contents Manuscripts relating to colonial writer and author of Wide Sargasso Sea: drafts of stories, letters to, from and about her; sound recordings; reviews of her books; interviews with and articles about her.Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had two intensely creative periods in her career as novelist and story writer; the first from about 1920 to 1935 and the second from about 1950 until her death in 1979. Apart from her published work, few records of the earlier period are known to survive....
Dates: 1920 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1979

Memorandum of Agreement, 1977-03

 Item
Identifier: 2020.041.1.5
Scope and Contents

Memorandum of agreement between Victor Gollancz Ltd. and David Plante regarding the work provisionally titled, The Parish. Document is initialled and signed.

Dates: 1977-03

Memorandum of Agreement, 1979-06

 Item
Identifier: 2020.041.1.11
Scope and Contents

Memorandum of agreement between Victor Gollancz Ltd. and David Plante regarding The Woods.

Dates: 1979-06

Memorandums of Agreement, 1975

 File
Identifier: 2020.041.1.8
Scope and Contents

Memorandum of Agreement between Victor Gollancz Ltd. and David Plante regarding Figures in Brights Air and the Author's Biographical and Publicity Information.

Dates: 1975

Proposed dust jacket blurbs, 1975

 Item
Identifier: 2020.041.1.9
Scope and Contents

Draft of dust jacket blurbs in several versions plus a commentary by Stephen Spender; two dust jackets for the Gollancz editon, one copy with handwritten notations.

Dates: 1975

Reader's report, 1983-09

 Item
Identifier: 2020.041.1.10
Scope and Contents

Catharine Carver's report on David Plante's The Secret.

Dates: 1983-09

Reader's reports, 1977

 File
Identifier: 2020.041.1.5
Scope and Contents

Two reader's reports on Plante's novel originally titled, "The Parish", submitted by Catharine Carver and "JE".

Dates: 1977

Reader's reports, 1975

 Item
Identifier: 2020.041.1.8
Scope and Contents

One reader's report on Figures in Bright Air submitted by "MW" and the second report submitted by an unknown reader.

Dates: 1975

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Subject
Authors and publishers. 2
Publishers and publishing. 2
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Plante, David. 2
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Manuscripts 1