Margery Cuyler Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of manuscript materials related to nine published children's books by Margery Cuyler. Materials include typescripts, correspondence, reviews, holographs, dummies, page proofs and jacket proofs, research materials, pamphlets, and notes.
Dates
- Creation: 1979-2007, undated
Creator
- Cuyler, Margery (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Margery Cuyler grew up in Prinecton, New Jersey in an old historic house that was used as army barracks during the Revolutionary War. In 1970 she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She has written over thirty children's books, from picture books to non-fiction texts. Cuyler has also worked as a children's book editor as well as holding executive position at Golden Books Family Entertainment, Holiday House, Henry Holt and Company, Marshall Cavendish, and Amazon.com. In 2011 she judged contestants on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice television show. She currently resides in Lawrenceville, New Jersey with her husband, with whom she has three children.
Extent
0.80 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of manuscript materials related to nine children's books published between 1990 and 2009 written by Margery Cuyler.
Arrangement
Collection guide arranged alphabetically by title.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Margery Cuyler.
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Genre / Form
Topical
- Animals -- Juvenile fiction
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- Bears -- Juvenile fiction
- Behavior -- Juvenile fiction
- Bullies -- Juvenile fiction
- Bullying -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories, American
- Dinosaurs -- Juvenile fiction
- Domestic animals -- Juvenile fiction
- First day of school -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Ghost stories
- Giants -- Juvenile fiction
- Halloween -- Juvenile fiction
- Hiccups -- Juvenile fiction
- Influenza -- Juvenile fiction
- Loneliness -- Juvenile fiction
- Picture books
- Pumpkin -- Juvenile fiction
- Raccoon -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-perception -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Sneezing -- Juvenile fiction
- Snow -- Juvenile fiction
- Snowmen -- Juvenile fiction
- Teasing -- Juvenile fiction
- Worry -- Juvenile fiction
- Title
- Margery Cuyler papers, undated, 1979-2007, undated
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kate Dietrick
- Date
- February 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- February 2014: Collection reprocessed by Laura Howard; EAD updated by Kate Dietrick
- June 2020: Description updated by Caitlin Marineau.
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Children's Literature Research Collections Collecting Area
