The George V. Higgins Archive at the University of
South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper Library preserves a comprehensive
collection of the author’s literary, personal and legal papers that
depict the full scope of his remarkable career, from his writing for
the Boston College literary magazine, The Stylus, to his book
At
the End of the Day (2000), which was published posthumously.
Highlights of the collection include:
• Drafts, edited typescripts
and proofs for his best-selling first novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• Unpublished early fiction and ‘lost’ writing submitted for
his MA in creative writing at Stanford
• Research files and typescripts for his non-fiction books,
The Friends of Richard Nixon and Style and Substance, and for his
investigative journalism on the Whitey Bulger case
• Files from his work as defense attorney for Eldridge
Cleaver and G. Gordon Liddy
• A substantial cache of unpublished fiction and screenplays
from the 1980s and 1990s
• Drafts of the columns he wrote for the Boston Globe, the
Boston Herald-American and for legal journals
• His clipping files on critical response to his books
• Photos
• Tax and other files relating to his work as a professional
author
• Personal
mementos, such as his press pass to the Boston Red Sox, his vehicle
license tags as an Assistant U.S. attorney, his gun permit, yacht
pennants and the coronet he played in the Boston College Marching
Band.
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