BIB_ID
345791
Accession number
MA 8435
Creator
Scurr, Ruth.
Display Date
2007.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Description
15 items
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Summary
A collection assembled by Ruth Scurr of her papers related to the 2007 Booker prize. Collection consists of: her autograph notebook (MA 8435.1, see related record); invitations to the 2007 award ceremony, with guestlists, and a bookmark for the 2006 prize (MA 8435.2-4); annotated computer printouts of book reviews and Wikipedia entries and a clipping "McEwan heads Brits in line for new international Booker" from the Evening Standard, 19 April 2007 (MA 8435.5-13); a group of emails, notes, schedules and information related to judging the prize (MA 8435.14); and several lists (autograph and typed with annotations) of contending authors with further ratings and notes on style and rankings.
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