At the end of December 2023, Saint Peter’s University Archive acquired the papers of prominent editor and Jersey City native, Robert Giroux. Giroux, of the publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published the works of major authors including T.S. Eliot, J.D. Salinger, Elizabeth Bishop, Flannery O’Conner, Robert Lowell, Susan Sontag, Jean Stafford, Thomas Merton, John Berryman, and many, many others.
The collection consists of correspondence, Giroux's speeches and writings, his author files, manuscripts and chapter drafts, publishing house papers, project files, subject files, personal papers, photographs and scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and his many degrees and awards. For more details about the collection’s contents, see the finding aid here.
As of this week, his papers are officially open for researchers! To schedule a research appointment or class visit, please contact archivist, Kate Mitchell at kmitchell3@saintpeters.edu.
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