Borenstein, Audrey – 17

Subjects:
Creativity; lifelong learning; literature; social sciences; teaching; society–U.S.; writing/the writing life

Writing Description:
A collection of their correspondence gathered in 2000 by writer Audrey Borenstein and poet and writer Robert Wilson, in tribute to these sociologists’ rich epistolary friendship. Wilson celebrated “this splendid habit” of their serving as one another’s constant, appreciative reader: “Ours is a rare compact and one I cherish.” He thought the parallels between their lives astonishing: “We inhabit the same universe and share many sensibilities.” To Borenstein, his evocative writings seemed “leaves from my own unwritten autobiography.” She wrote him that perhaps they were achieving “the realization of every writer’s dream, the companionate reader through whose whole-heartedness the heart of all literary endeavor comes out and stands.” [See also Robert Wilson’s listing, Id# 18.]

Collection is entitled: SEEING ONE ANOTHER THROUGH: LETTERS 1977-2000.

Writing Type:
Letters

Gender:
Female

Birth Year:
1930

Death Year:

Occupation and Interests:
Writer and adjunct professor, author of ONE JOURNAL’S LIFE, CHIMES OF CHANGE AND HOURS, REDEEMING THE SIN, a self-published novel (SIMURGH), and other books; short fiction, essays, Journal writings and poetry in numerous literary publications.

Age(s):
46-69

Author Location(s):
New Paltz, New York

Writing Location(s):

Dates:
1977-2000

Handwritten:

Typed:
Yes

Digital:

Self-published:

Number of Pages, etc.:
100 pages, single-spaced, plus a title page and two pages of Afterwords. Includes 152 letters.

Contact Person:
Audrey Borenstein

Contact Person/Author Relationship:
Same

Address:
Contact LWC

Phone:

Email:

Date Entered:
07/2004

Date Revised/Confirmed:
06/2008

Entry Filed under: b,Female,Letters