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| Fonds/Collection Number: | F0345 | ||||||||||||
| Title: | Norman Levine fonds | ||||||||||||
| Dates: | 1940-2002 | ||||||||||||
| Extent: | 17.79 m of textual records ca. 350 photographs : b&w and col. ; 30 x 25 cm or smaller 7 audio tape cassettes 2 video cassettes 1 audio disc 6 paintings 1 drawing 15 posters |
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| Biographical Sketch/ Administrative History: | Norman Albert Levine was a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. He was born in Ottawa on 23 October 1923, and was educated at McGill University (MA, 1949). He emigrated to England in that year and eventually settled in St. Ives, Cornwall. Levine wrote numerous short stories, novels, and collections including, "Canada made me" (1958), "I Don't Want to Know Anyone too Well" (1971), "Thin Ice" (1979), "Something happened here" (1991), and "By a Frozen River" (2000). His work appeared in several anthologies of Canadian writing and was translated into German and other languages. Both the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations have produced documentaries about Levine. He died on 14 June 2005. | ||||||||||||
| Scope and Content: |
The fonds consists of material that documents Levine's career as a writer and includes literary manuscripts, promotional material, personal and professional correspondence, diaries, calendars, and notebooks, financial and legal records, photographs and collected memorabilia. The fonds is arranged in the following series:
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| Restrictions on Access and Use: | Access is restricted. Written permission to view the material must be obtained from through the University Archivist. | ||||||||||||
| Finding Aid: | Series-level descriptions with corresponding file lists are complete at this time. Individual accession file lists are available separately; see accruals note. Some of the early accessions (1971-006 and 1975-009), have detailed file lists prepared by Levine. Accession 1989-034 contains detailed file listings, complete with notations by Levine in Box 7, files 126-127. | ||||||||||||
| URL of Finding Aid: | http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000345.pdf | ||||||||||||
| Accruals: | The fonds comprises the following accessions: 1971-006, 1973-007, 1975-009, 1983-004, 1986-004, 1988-027, 1989-034, 1990-002, 1991-001, 1994-028, 1996-031, 2001-020, 2002-058, 2003-004. No further accruals are expected. | ||||||||||||
| 1971-006 1973-007 1975-009 1983-004 1986-004 1988-027 1989-034 1991-001 1994-028 1996-031 2001-020 2002-058 2003-004 |
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| Immediate source of acquisition: | Acquired from Norman Levine in 1971, 1973, 1975, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2002, and 2003. | ||||||||||||
| Provenance Access Points: | Levine, Norman, 1923-. |
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Date of creation: 2002/04/05 Date of last revision: 2010/09/21 |
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