Borenstein, Audrey – 14

Subjects:
Creativity; dreams; human condition; journal-keeping; literature; parallel lives; U.S. society; spirituality; teaching; writing/the writing life

Writing Description:
Prologue and arrangement of Journal writings 1964-2000 into compositions of literary art. Titles in Part One, 1964-79: Cartoons for Tapestries to be Woven In Late Life; Impressions; Fragments; Möbius Strip; PieceWork; The Writing Life; Sampler of Dreams; Otherlives, Formerlives; Montages #1 and #2. Part Two, 1980-89: Readymades; Life-Studies, Self-Studies; Collages #1-7; Fiction and the Dream: Möbius Strip. Part Three, the 1990s: Elsewheres; Still-Life, STILL LIFE; Second Sight; Of Our Time; From the Annals of Grief; Letter To My Old Compañero; Life-Studies; Winnowing; In Ken of Shore; Lives of the Spirit; Readymades; The Celebration; Double Helix; Imprintings; The Writing Life; SoulWork.

Volume is entitled: JOURNAL SIDELIGHTS: JOURNAL-KEEPINGS OF AN UNKNOWN WRITER, Volume II of Series, 1964-2000.

Writing Type:
JDN

Gender:
Female

Birth Year:
1930

Death Year:

Occupation and Interests:
Writer; Adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology, 1964-1986; author of ONE JOURNAL’S LIFE; SIMURGH; CHIMES OF CHANGE AND HOURS; REDEEMING THE SIN; OLDER WOMEN IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA: A SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CUSTOM: AN ESSAY ON SOCIAL CODES, a translation of Ferdinand Tönnies’s DIE SITTE; co-author of THROUGH THE YEARS: A CHRONICLE OF CONGREGATION AHAVATH ACHIM, 5725-5750; published essays, among them “The Spy In the Citadel” in the Summer 2003 issue of the ANTIOCH REVIEW; published short fiction in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies; published Journal Writings, poetry and journalism.

Age(s):
33-70

Author Location(s):
Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mount Vernon, Iowa; New Paltz, New York

Writing Location(s):

Dates:
1964-2000

Handwritten:

Typed:
Yes

Digital:

Self-published:

Number of Pages, etc.:
590 pages, double-spaced, includes Prologue.

Contact Person:
Audrey Borenstein

Contact Person/Author Relationship:
Same

Address:
Contact LWC

Phone:

Email:

Date Entered:
07/2004

Date Revised/Confirmed:
02/2007

Entry Filed under: b,Female,Journals, Diaries, and Notebooks