Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00273A (2B Annex) - Diane Keating Papers

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CA OTUTF MS COLL 00273A (2B Annex)

Title

Diane Keating Papers

Date(s)

  • 1970-2017 (Creation)

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Manuscript Collection

Extent and medium

14 boxes (1.5m) of textual records and art.

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Name of creator

(1940-)

Biographical history

Diane Keating was born 20 July 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to two teachers, Ernst and Muriel. She graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts. Following her graduation she embarked on a career as a freelance travel writer in Rome until 1964, when she returned to Canada and took a position as a fashion writer in Montreal for the Hudson Bay Company until 1967. She married Christopher Keating in 1967, with whom she has two kids, and then served as Vice President of Keating Educational Tours in Toronto from 1968-1978. Following this position, she began her career as a writer and published several works of both fiction and poetry. Keating’s works include, but are not limited to: In Dark Places (1978), No Birds or Flowers (1982), Mad Apples (1983), The Optic Heart (1984), The Salem Diary (1989), The Salem Letters (1992), The Year One: New and Selected Poems (2002), and The Crying Out (2014). Keating’s work No Birds or Flowers was shortlisted for the 1982 Governor General’s Award. She lives in Toronto. (Encyclopedia.ca)

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Diane Keating, 2020

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Scope and content

Collection contains materials relating to the literary career of Diane Keating, including correspondence with other literary figures (most extensively with Joe Rosenblatt); drafts of both published and unpublished works, and background research; notes for classes and workshops both taken and taught by Keating; and copies of literary journals containing works by Keating.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Contains Series:

  1. Correspondence
    a. Subseries: Correspondence with Joe Rosenblatt
  2. Teaching and Learning
  3. Writing, Publicity, and the CanLit Community

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Conditions governing access

Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca.

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      Description identifier

      CA OTUTF MS COLL00273A (2B Annex)

      Institution identifier

      Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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