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Typescript photocopy of William Gaddis's project description for his Rockefeller Foundation grant application, 1987. Includes chapter one titled "The Last Act" that would later form a portion of A Frolic of His Own.

William Gaddis's Panama Canal temporary identification card, January 16, 1948.

Typescript draft of William Gaddis's inventory of his archival material, May 1994.

Photograph of William Gaddis's garage workroom in Piermont, NY while working on JR.

Press release containing William Gaddis's acceptance speech for the National Book Award in Fiction for JR, April 21, 1976.

Typescript of William Gaddis' autobiography for his Psychology 35 class at Harvard University, July 16, 1943.

Photograph of William Gaddis, Donald Barthelme, and Walter Abish in West Berlin, Germany while participating in "The American Chapter," as festival of American writing arranged by Heidi Ziegler and Lutz Engelke, November 1987.

William Gaddis distinguishes between the desire to write and the desire to "be a writer" during a 1981 question and answer session at Bard College.

William Gaddis discusses "political" art and its encroachment upon "private life" during a 1981 question and answer session at Bard College.

William Gaddis discusses the disintegration of reading during a 1981 question and answer session at Bard College.