This collection contains the professional papers of Donald Heiney documenting his work as a novelist and critic. It includes manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, proofs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and research files relating to his novels and critical works.

Donald Heiney was a novelist and faculty member in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine from 1965 to 1970, where he served as director of the MFA Program in Fiction. He published numerous critical works under his real name in addition to the novels and stories he wrote under his pseudonym, MacDonald Harris. Heiney died in 1993.

17.5 linear feet (14 boxes)

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