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Series IV: Biographical material and personal correspondence

Subseries A: Biographical material

Biographical, Biography, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 703 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical, Biography on Cooper by Earl Jackson Jr, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 704 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical, college material, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 705 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical, College Registration 1975, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 706 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical, headshot, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 707 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Biographical, Resume, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 708 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper, Ann--Correspondence, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 709 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper, Cindy--Correspondence, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 710 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper, Clifford--correspondence, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 711 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper, Clifford--manuscript, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 712 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper, Courtney--Correspondence, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 713 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper reads at Bop Shop, poster, Undated, inclusive

Box: 25, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diary 1976-1977, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 714 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diary 1978-1981, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 715 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Diary Scrapbook, Prostitutes 1983, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 716 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Family Christmas Cards, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 717 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Family Photographs, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 718 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Juvenalia, "I'm Sorry I Bent Your Feathers", undated

Box: 10, Folder: 719 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Juvenalia, Press, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 720 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Juvenalia, unfinished memoir, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 721 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lecture given at Langston Street San Francisco, 1985

Box: 10, Folder: 722 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lecture given at Outwrite conference, 1990

Box: 10, Folder: 723 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lecture given at "New Narrative" panel, Outwrite conference, 1991

Box: 10, Folder: 724 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Feature presents: an Evening of New Ficton with Dennis Cooper and Casey McKinney, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 725 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The United States of Poetry, 1996

Box: 10, Folder: 726 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper featured author at Festival of Books, 1996

Box: 10, Folder: 727 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

press coverage of reading, Chicago, 1994

Box: 10, Folder: 728 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New City reading, Dennis Cooper and Bobby Anderson, 1994

Box: 10, Folder: 729 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Frances Stark presents an evening of reading. Los Angeles, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 730 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Beyond Baroque benefit, 1991

Box: 10, Folder: 731 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Readings and conversations, Amy Gerstler and Dennis Cooper, 1992

Box: 10, Folder: 732 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper, Tim Dlugos reading tour, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Boston., undated

Box: 10, Folder: 733 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Works and Words, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 734 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gay Poetry Night with Dennis Cooper, Robert Peters and David Trinidad, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 735 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A poetry reading at Clouds, Pasadena CA, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 736 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper, Tim Dlugos, Alice Notley read their poems, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 737 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The L.A. Scene: Los Angeles Poets, 1982

Box: 10, Folder: 738 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Reading of Poetry and Prose, Edmund White and Dennis Cooper, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 739 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry Downtown, a reading by Dennis Cooper and James Krusoe

Box: 10, Folder: 740 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Little Caesar Press spring titles book party, 1981

Box: 10, Folder: 741 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sound Off, Undated, inclusive

Box: 25, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Spoken Words, 1981

Box: 10, Folder: 742 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Beyond Baroque reading: Dennis Cooper and Tim Dlugos, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 743 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Village Voice, comming attractions, 1981

Box: 10, Folder: 744 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper and Felice Picano, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 745 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry at Midnight with Felice Picano and Dennis Cooper, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 746 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper at The Ear Inn, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 747 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell poetry origram, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 748 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Glad Fridays Visiting Lesbian and Gay Writers series, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 749 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Archives' events, Celebrating Lesbian and Gay culture., 1981

Box: 10, Folder: 750 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Readings at the Ear Inn, 1981

Box: 10, Folder: 751 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Different Light, Gay Literature, 1980

Box: 10, Folder: 752 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Intellectuals and Liars reading schedule, 1980

Box: 10, Folder: 753 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New College Poetry readings, 1980

Box: 10, Folder: 754 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

From Our Heart's To Yours, a Men's Valentine's Poetry Reading, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 755 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Poetry Reading at the Hyperion Theater, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 756 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry Reading at Clesea Bookstore, 1980

Box: 10, Folder: 757 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper and Picano at The Glines, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 758 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pasadena Community Arts Center Poetry Series, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 759 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry at Clouds, 1978

Box: 10, Folder: 760 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Intellectuals and Liars: Dennis Cooper and Michael Silverblatt, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 761 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Hyperion Theatre The Poets Place, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 762 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

South Bay Live, 1980

Box: 10, Folder: 763 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper reading at Intellectuals and Liars, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 764 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

LA Library Poetry Reading, Wanda Coleman and Dennis Cooper, 1979

Box: 10, Folder: 765 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Small Press Traffic Reading, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 766 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Beyond Baroque reading, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 767 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Beyond Baroque reading in Datebook, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 768 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Salon reading, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 769 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Original Language Poetry Series, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 770 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry for Punks, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 771 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gay Sunshine Benefit Poetry Reading, 1977

Box: 10, Folder: 772 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rimbaud's Birthday, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 773 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reading by Student Poets, 1975

Box: 10, Folder: 774 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poets, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 775 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pasadena Community Arts Center Poetry Series, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 776 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Hyperion Theatre, the Poets Place, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 777 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Evening of Poetry with Dennis Cooper, 1982

Box: 10, Folder: 778 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper Reads, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 779 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry Benefit for the Company Theater, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 780 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reading at Matthew Marks Gallery, Dennis Cooper and Kevin Killian, 1994

Box: 10, Folder: 781 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dennis Cooper reading at Bop Shop, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 782 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Examples Cool and Lonely, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 783 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Farm Boys reading, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 784 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

PEN American Center and Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies present an Evening of Gay Men's Literature, 1993

Box: 10, Folder: 785 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reading pick of the Week, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 786 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Writer Riot, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 787 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Grove Weidenfeld and Kresge Cultural Intersections Program, reading by Denis Cooper, 1991

Box: 10, Folder: 788 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Don't Make Me Say Things That Will Hurt You, undated

Box: 10, Folder: 789 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry Gone Gay

Box: 10, Folder: 790 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Zine party and reading, 1992

Box: 11, Folder: 791 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reading: poetry gone gay, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 792 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Readings: "Get it in writing", 1983

Box: 11, Folder: 793 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Readings: Them, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 794 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Basement, 1985

Box: 11, Folder: 795 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Basement, Cooper and Lenore Champagne, 1985

Box: 11, Folder: 796 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Between C and D, two readings, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 797 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ABC NO RIO benefit for Little Caesar Press, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 798 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

PS 122, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 799 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Beyond Baroque. Cooper, David Trinidad, Ed Smith, Benjamin Weissman, Amy Gerstler, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 800 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry Resource Center of Michigan, LINES: National Writers Series. Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles, 1985

Box: 11, Folder: 801 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, 1983, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 802 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 25, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lambda Rising reading, Dennis Cooper and Brad Gooch, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 803 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stitching One World Poetry, 1984

Box: 11, Folder: 804 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

An Evening of Poetry, Olga Broumas and Dennis Cooper, 1984

Box: 11, Folder: 805 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Poetry Project, Eileen Myles' introduction of Dennis Cooper, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 806 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sound Off: A Benefit for Performance Space 122, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 807 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gay and Lesbian pride events, Boston, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 808 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brad Gooch and Dennis Cooper in Boston, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 809 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Opinionated Survey featuring Dennis Cooper, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 810 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gay and Lesbian Literature: A Different Light, 1984

Box: 11, Folder: 811 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Performance Space 122, posters, 1985, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 812 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 25, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Performance Space 122 ACT-UP benefit, Undated, inclusive

Box: 25, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Poetry Project, Ted Berrigan Memorial, 1983

Box: 11, Folder: 813 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 25, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oranges Sardines Gallery, Cooper and Ed Smith, 1983

Box: 11, Folder: 814 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Mercury Arts Center, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 815 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Art Talk Art, 1990

Box: 11, Folder: 816 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper on De Sade, 1991

Box: 11, Folder: 817 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Outwrite, 1991

Box: 11, Folder: 818 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gay and Lesbian Literary Salon. UCLA Extension, 1992

Box: 11, Folder: 819 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reviews, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 820 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reviews, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 821 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reviews, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 822 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reviews, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 823 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reviews, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 824 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Thompson, KD (grandmother), newspaper article about Thompson, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 825 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries B: Personal Correspondence

Correspondence, early rejection letters, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 826 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, A-Bo, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 827 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, Br-Gr, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 828 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, Gr-Ho, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 829 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, Ke-Ma, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 830 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, Mc-No, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 831 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, Pe-St, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 832 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, Su-Yo, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 833 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, unidentified correspondents, undated

Box: 11, Folder: 834 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Accretion 2012 -- Correspondence, 1970-2002, inclusive

Box: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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