Fales Library
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The Fales Library, comprising nearly 200,000 volumes, and over 7,500 linear feet of archive and manuscript materials, houses both the Fales Collection of rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature and the general Special Collections from the New York University Libraries. The Fales Collection was given to NYU in 1957 by DeCoursey Fales in memory of his father, Haliburton Fales. It is especially strong in English literature from the middle of the 18th century to the present, documenting developments in the novel. Other strengths of the collection include the Berol Collection of Lewis Carroll Materials, the Robert Frost Library, the Kaplan and Rosenthal Collections of Judaica and Hebraica and the manuscript collections of Elizabeth Robins and Erich Maria Remarque. Other strengths include the Downtown Collection which documents the downtown New York art, performance, and literary scenes from 1975 to the present and the Food and Cookery Collection of well over 15,000 books. The Fales Library preserves manuscripts and original editions of books that are rare or important not only because of their texts, but also because of their value as artifacts.
The Fales Library holds the personal papers and/or archives of the following, among others:
Dennis Cooper
David Wojnarowicz
Lynne Tillman
Peter Straub
Elizabeth Robins
E. L. Doctorow
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- BobCat online catalog
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