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Date(s)
- 1955-2019 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
21 boxes (2.6 metres)
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Terry Griggs (b. 1951) is a Canadian writer living in Stratford Ontario. Born and raised in Little Current, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Griggs studied English literature at the University of Western Ontario, where she earned an Honours B.A. in 1977, and an M.A. in 1979. She is the author of many short stories and essays that have appeared in various anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as three novels (The Lusty Man (1995), Rogue’s Wedding (2002), and Thought You Were Dead (2009), and four young adult fiction novels, the Cat’s Eye Corner trilogy (2000, 2004, 2006), and Nieve (2010). She has also published two collections of stories: Quickening (1990), for which she was shortlisted for the 1991 Governor General’s Award for fiction, and The Discovery of Honey (2017), a book of linked stories.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Terry Griggs, 2019
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Materials consist of writing notes, research, drafts, and page proofs for Griggs’s stories, essays and writing, publishing contracts and royalty reports, reviews and notices of her publications and copies of some of her short publications. There are materials related to the Forest City Gallery Reading Series in London, Ontario, which Grigg ran from 1987 to 1990, and a small number of personal items, including photographs of Griggs dating back to 1955, and some papers she wrote in university. The remainder of the materials consists of correspondence dating from the 1980s to 2018.
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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.