all writing is autobiography by donald murray

DOI: 10.2307/357540
Corpus ID: 141425273

All Writing Is Autobiography

Published in College Composition &amp… 1 February 1991
College Composition & Communication

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Bibliography of works about life-writing which links the decades, opinion: teaching bartleby to write--passive resistance and technology's place in the composition classroom., who cares if johnny writes with a pencil or, a hauntological historiography of materiality in composition-rhetoric, personal writing a taboo in composition classrooms, the trans-autobiographical writing in the psychiatric context, inquiry into the use of autobiographical writing in the college composition, who do i say i am evangelical identity and academic writing, a third voice: the heterophonic blend of culture and psyche., toward a writing and healing approach in the basic writing classroom: one professor's personal odyssey., a handful of spaghetti : entanglements of space, place and identity in the works of imraan coovadia., related papers.

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Donald Murray Collection

Collection number: UA 9/11/2 Size: (66 boxes) (Ca. 66 cu.ft.)

About Donald Morison Murray (1924-2006)

Donald Murray was a Pulitzer Prize winnning journalist, writing teacher, and newspaper columnist. He was a veteran of WWII, professor of the University of New Hampshire. He was well known for his long-running "Over 60" column in the Boston Globe, and for his role in starting the Writing Program at UNH. He was husband of Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray (1920-2005), with whom he had three daughters.

About the Donald Murray Collection (1897-2007)

Donald Murray's collection consists primarily of drafts of written materials related to teaching English rhetoric: textbooks, poetry, newspaper columns, articles, seminar speeches, etc. Smaller sections include photographs, art, Minnie Mae Murray's work, and Murray's personal/family history.

Administrative Information

Access restrictions.

This collection is open.

Copyright Notice

Contents of this collection are governed by U.S. copyright law. For questions about publication or reproduction rights, contact Special Collections staff.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [Box number], Donald M. Murray Papers, 1898-2007, UA 9/11/2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Donation of the creator and his estate in multiple acquistions. Collection was briefly housed at the Poynter Institute in Florida before returning to UNH for final processing.

Related Material

Milne Special Collections also holds papers of Thomas Newkirk, Christopher Scanlan, and the UNH Writing Center Papers.

Separated Material

Document and draft duplicates were removed during processing, retaining the original.

Collection Arrangement

This collection is divided into 8 series:

Series 1: Family vital records starting with Murray's grandparents, Murray's educational carreer starting in elementary school and ending with retirement, World War II service memorabilia and correspondence, obituaries of Donald and Minnie Mae Murray, Donald Murray's resumes and booklists, and materials created by Minnie Mae.
Series 2: Donald Murray's Daybooks, daily writing schedules and writing word count records from 1940s to his death, correspondence to and from Murray.
Series 3: Photographs of the Murray family beginning with his grandparents, family photos from his childhood and that of his daughters, Murray's professional photos throughout his career. This series contains extensive artwork drawn by Murray himself.
Series 4: Poetry by Murray, as well as poetry related correspondence and submission/rejection slips.
Series 5: Newspaper editorials, serial columns, freelance articles submitted for publication on a range of topics, and interviews with and by Murray.
Series 6: Short stories by Murray (many of which were later reworked into novels), drafts and published copies of novels, two memoirs and copius drafts of writing textbooks. Some textbooks were never published, while some were in revision when he died.
Series 7: Murray's teaching materials, including the birth of the UNH Journalism Program, materials from classes taught at UNH and elsewhere, seminars, handouts, recommended reading, and collected quotations on writing.
Series 8: Emphemera and awards (including his Pulitzer Prize), audiovisual materials (interviews with Murray, others), and material too large to fit earlier in the collection. This latter catagory includes Pulizer Prize scrapbooks, WWII materials, art and more.

Collection Contents

Series 1: Personal History, Family, and Military Materials, 1890-2007
Series 2: Daybooks, Writing Rules and Schedules, and Correspondence, 1944-2007
Series 3: Photographs and Artwork, 1898-2003
Series 4: Poetry, ca. 1946-2007
Series 5: Newswriting: Editorials, Columns, Articles/Essays, Interviews, 1943-2007
Series 7: Short Stories, Fiction, Memoirs, and Textbooks, 1940-2005
Series 8: Teaching Materials, UNH Journalism Program, Writing Seminars, Murray on Writing, 1950-2006
Series 8: Awards, Ephemera, Audiovisual, Oversize Materials, 1945-2006

Series 1 contains vital records and material from Murray's parents John Murray and Edith Smith. The rest is related to the various stages of Donald Murray's own education in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, his military service during World War II, and honorary academic degrees he was bestowed later in life. A small number of autobiographies are included, along with resumes and book lists from various stages of his career. At the end is a small amount of writing by Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray.

Box 1
Box 1, Folder 1		Donald Murray Family Vital Records, 1924-2007
Box 1, Folder 2		John Murray, Edith Smith: Religious materials, Vital documents, Letters, 1920-1973
Box 1, Folder 3		Murray/Smith Family Letters, 1920-1981 and undated
Box 1, Folder 4		Murray Family Genealogy, 1972/2003
Box 1, Folder 5		Donald Murray (DMM): Elementary School, Boy Scouts, Paper Route, 1930-1941
Box 1, Folder 6		Stamp Collecting, 1930-1940
Box 1, Folder 7		Autobiographies by Murray, 1976-2006 and undated
Box 1, Folder 8		North Quincy High School Junior Yearbook, 1941
Box 1, Folder 9		North Quincy High School Senior Yearbook, 1942
Box 1, Folder 10		North Quincy and Winthrop Junior High Schools, 1938-1942
Box 1, Folder 11		North Quincy and Winthrop Junior High Schools (continued), 1938-1942
Box 1, Folder 12		Tilton Junior Academy for Boys, 1940-1947
Box 1, Folder 13		Tilton Academy (graduated 1943), 1939-1943
Box 1, Folder 14		Tilton Academy diploma, 1943
Box 1, Folder 15		University of New Hampshire papers/essays (graduated 1948), 1944-1948
Box 1, Folder 16		UNH: Exams, grades, commencement program, Sigma Delta Chi certificate, 1946-1954
Box 1, Folder 17		UNH B.A. Diploma, 1948
Box 1, Folder 18		UNH Senior Key Award, 1968
Box 1, Folder 19		UNH Distinguished Teaching Award, 1981
Box 1, Folder 20		UNH Distinguished Teaching Award (continued), 1981
Box 1, Folder 21		UNH Doctor of Humane Letters Diploma, 1990
Box 1, Folder 22		22. UNH Alumnus materials, 1990s-2000s
Box 2
Box 2, Folder 1		US Army: Official paperwork, orders, certificates of training, correspondence, identification ("doggie") tags, armband, 1943-1959
Box 2, Folder 2		US Army: Paratrooper maps, European tour ephemera, 1943-1959
Box 2, Folder 3		US Army: History of the U.S. 17th Airborne Division, undated
Box 2, Folder 4		US Army: Letters home to parents, news clippings about his service, war diary, 1943-1945
Box 2, Folder 5		European trip and letters home to family, 1973
Box 2, Folder 6		Obituaries and Tributes to Donald Murray, 2007
Box 2, Folder 7		Resumes and Booklists, 1950s-1979
Box 2, Folder 8		Resumes and Booklists, 1980-1989
Box 2, Folder 9		Resumes and Booklists, 1990s-2000s and undated
Box 2, Folder 10		Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray: Vital records, Autobiography, certificates, 1920s-2005
Box 2, Folder 11		Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray: Short stories, editorials, diary of 1969 roadtrip, 1969 and undated
Box 2, Folder 12		Minnie Mae (Emmerich) Murray: English 703/803 Advanced Non-Fiction materials, 1977
Box 2, Folder 13		Anne Murray: essay, undated

This series consists largely of daybooks and correspondence. Murray's daybooks are a combination of diary, writing workbook, and anything else he found important to include. They are different from his desk calendars which follow them in the series. Murray's grid-like writing schedules document the number of words written each day from the early 1970s until his death. The remainder of the series is correspondence arranged alphabetically within each year.

Box 2
Box 2, Folder 14		Essay on keeping a daybook, undated
Box 2, Folder 15		Daybook/Journal, 1957-1959
Box 2, Folder 16		Journal and Journal Of Writing A Novel, 1964-1965
Box 2, Folder 17		Journal, 1961
Box 2, Folder 18-29		Daybooks 1-9, October 1976-1989
Box 3
Box 3, Folder 1-28		Daybooks 10-37, September 1979-September 1984
Box 4
Box 4, Folder 1-22		Daybooks 38-59, September 1984-July 1987
Box 5
Box 5, Folder 1-21		Daybooks 60-77, August 1987-July 1991
Box 6
Box 6, Folder 1-17		Daybooks 78-93, July 1991-March 1996
Box 7
Box 7, Folder 1-14		Daybooks 94-107, March 1996-October 1998
Box 8
Box 8, Folder 1-12		Daybooks 108-118, 2000s-November 2005
Box 8, Folder 13		Daybook Notes, October 1989-September 1990
Box 8, Folder 14		Daybook notes, undated
Box 8, Folder 15		Writer's workbook, begun July 1971
Box 8, Folder 16		Daily Workbook, July 1972-1938
Box 8, Folder 17		"A Journal of a Novel," April 1961-unknown
Box 9
Box 9, Folder 1-4		Miscellanious Daybooks, 2000-2006 and undated
Box 9, Folder 15-29		Writing Schedules, 1970s-2000s and undated
Box 9, Folder 30		Murray's Rules For Writing, 1970s-1990s
Box 9, Folder 31-39		Calendars, 1979-1984
Box 10
Box 10, Folder 1-19		Calendars, 1895-2002
Box 11
Box 11, Folder 1-8		Calendars, 2002-2007
Box 11, Folder 9-38		Correspondence, 1944-1981
Box 12
Box 12, Folder 1-23		Correspondence, 1981-1986
Box 13
Box 13, Folder 1-26		Correspondence, 1986-1990
Box 14
Box 14, Folder 1-27		Correspondence, 1990-1994
Box 15
Box 15, Folder 1-26		Correspondence, 1994-1997
Box 16
Box 16, Folder 1-26		Correspondence, 1998-2001
Box 17
Box 17, Folder 1-22		Correspondence, 2001-2006
Box 17, Folder 23-25		Correspondence, unidentified, undated
Box 18
Box 18, Folder 1-6		Correspondence, unidentified, undated
Box 18, Folder 6		Correspondence, Family/Personal, 1970s-2000s

This series contains photos of the Murray and Smith families starting with DMM's grandparents. Further photos document his childhood, army service, professional career, and tenure at UNH. The bulk of the series is DMM's artwork.

Box 18
Box 18, Folder 7		Smith / Murray family photos, 1898-1900s
Box 18, Folder 8		Murray's childhood photos, 1920s-1940s
Box 18, Folder 9		Army photos, 1940s
Box 18, Folder 10		Murray / Emmerich family photos, 1950s onwards
Box 18, Folder 11		Early Professional Photos, 1950s onwards
Box 18, Folder 12-13		"The Amazing World Of Sound Recording", photos 1967
Box 18, Folder 14-15		UNH era professional photos, 1960s-2000s
Box 18, Folder 16		New Hampshire College commencement photos (Murray's honorary PhD), 1997
Box 18, Folder 17		Don Murray Colloquium, 1999
Box 18, Folder 18		Scrapbook, 1933
Box 18, Folder 19		Scrapbook of classic cars, 1950s
Box 18, Folder 20		Sketchbook: "The Mother-In-Law And Other Friends Of The Family", 1950s
Box 18, Folder 21		Sketchbook: Linekin Bay Maine, 1980s
Box 18, Folder 22		Sketchbook: Portraits of Minnie Mae, 1980
Box 18, Folder 23		Sketchbook: Norway (1994), untitled (1998) 1994-1998
Box 18, Folder 24		Sketchbook: "Following The Line" drawings, 1998
Box 18, Folder 25		Sketchbook: untitled, 2001
Box 18, Folder 26		Sketchbook: Imagined trip to Italy, 2001
Box 18, Folder 27		Sketchbook: untitled, 2002
Box 18, Folder 28		Sketchbook: "Morning Sketches", 2003
Box 18, Folder 29		Sketchbook: "Trees: Observed, Remembered, Imagined", 2004
Box 18, Folder 30		Sketchbook: Untitled, 2000s
Box 18, Folder 31		Drawings of people and miscellaneous subjects, undated
Box 18, Folder 32		Self-potraits, portraits by others, drawings of war, undated
Box 18, Folder 33		Household / Buildings, undated
Box 18, Folder 34		Drawings for "Garden Lane" publication, 2000s
Box 18, Folder 35		Nature / Tree drawings, undated
Box 18, Folder 36		Cartoons about writers and writing collected by Murray, undated

This series opens with a small amount of poetry-related correspondence and lists of Murray's poems, before moving on to his poetry collections and then individual poems. Most are undated, so the drafts are organized by title (where available) or first line. Subjects are predominantly his WWII experiences and relations with members of his family.

Box 19
Box 19, Folder 1		Poetry related correspondence, undated
Box 19, Folder 2		Ideas for poems, undated
Box 19, Folder 3		Lists of poems and publications, undated
Box 19, Folder 4		Submission / Rejection slips, undated
Box 19, Folder 5		Teaching materials and workshops on poetry, undated
Box 19, Folder 6		New Hampshire Writers and Publishers workshop with poet Wes McNair, 1993
Box 19, Folder 7		Series: "Black Ice", undated
Box 19, Folder 8		Early poems, 1946-1964
Box 19, Folder 9		Early Collections of poems, 1970s
Box 19, Folder 10		"Finding My Father's Glasses in the Drawer" series part 1 undated
Box 19, Folder 11-12		Father's Glasses series drafts notebooks, undated
Box 19, Folder 13		"Five Poems for Lisa" series, undated
Box 19, Folder 14		"Home On Leave" series, 1993
Box 19, Folder 15		"Intensive Care" series, undated
Box 19, Folder 16-18		"Occupied Territory" series drafts, undated
Box 19, Folder 19		"Spring Visit Home" series, 1965
Box 19, Folder 20		"The Swords Survive," undated
Box 19, Folder 21		"Thief of Lives," 1992
Box 19, Folder 22		"This Daily Dying," 1971
Box 19, Folder 23		Untitled series, 1974
Box 19, Folder 24		Untitled groups of poems, undated
Box 19, Folder 25		Published collections of 2-6 poems, undated
Box 19, Folder 26-34		Titles / first lines beginning A through G, undated
Box 20
		Titles / first lines beginning H through G, undated

Series 5 opens with 18 scrapbooks of Murray's editorials written while working at the Boston Post, ca. 1951-1954, for which he won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize. Later he wrote a weekly column for the Post entitled "Over Sixty," from 1986-2007. Drafts of this and other columns are arranged chronologically in boxes 23-24. Murray also wrote freelance articles throughout his career on a wide array of topics - articles from 1950-ca. 1968 are on non-writing topics, while those ca. 1968 and later cover the mechanics and teaching of writing (boxes 25-29). The latter half of box 29 contains interviews with and by Murray and materials from television- and internet-based writing programs.

Box 21
Box 21, Folder 1-8		Scrapbooks of Murray's editorial and newspaper articles, 1951-July 1952
Box 22
Box 22, Folder 1-10		Scrapbooks continued, including articles written while working for Time Magazine in 1954-1955, September 1952-December 1954
Box 23
Box 23, Folder 1-22		Rights, reflections, and drafts/finished texts of “Over Sixty” column written for the Boston Globe, 1986-2000
Box 24
Box 24, Folder 1-9		“Over Sixty” columns for the Boston Globe, 2001-2007, 2001/2007
Box 24, Folder 10-17		“Writer on Writing” columns for the Boston Globe, 1987-1990
Box 24, Folder 18-19		“Craft Notes” columns for the Portsmouth Herald, 2005-2006
Box 24, Folder 20-21		“From the Sidelines” column for the Boston Globe, 1980
Box 25
Box 25, Folder 1		Six Ways to Judge Your Schools, 1950s
Box 25, Folder 2		Noted School Reader Creation, 1951
Box 25, Folder 3		Defense in an Air Age, 1953
Box 25, Folder 4		What Had Been Given (1953), 1953
Box 25, Folder 5		Paint Your Dreams (1953), 1953
Box 25, Folder 6		Fulham Brothers / Fish Sticks, 1954
Box 25, Folder 7		How To Knock The Reds Off Balance [Pulitzer Prize winner], 1954
Box 25, Folder 8		I was a Nay, 1954
Box 25, Folder 9		(Book of unidentified quotations from Time Magazine – probably includes Murray), 1954
Box 25, Folder 10		The Weapon of Knowledge, 1954
Box 25, Folder 11		Drafting Common Sense (Pulitzer Prize editorial excerpted as article), 1954
Box 25, Folder 12		The Too Well Contemplated Navel (for Time Magazine), 1954
Box 25, Folder 13		How It Feels To Catch Fire (with R.P. Carter), 1954
Box 25, Folder 14		How To Keep A Home Running, 1955
Box 25, Folder 15		Last Chance For Problem Children, 1955
Box 25, Folder 16		The Moll in the Nursery: Old Ma Goose or Crime School for Parents, ca. 1955
Box 25, Folder 17		They Guard the Ramparts, 1955
Box 25, Folder 18		Boston Science Museum, 1956?
Box 25, Folder 19		East Orange Public Library, 1956
Box 25, Folder 20		New York’s Toughest Cop, 1956
Box 25, Folder 21		Socony Mobil Building, NYC, 1957
Box 25, Folder 22		TV’s Nicest Guy, 1957
Box 25, Folder 23		The Best Job in the World, 1957
Box 25, Folder 24		The Cop Was Scared, 1957
Box 25, Folder 25		“Doc” Draper’s Wonderful Tops, 1957
Box 25, Folder 26		Charles Draper’s flight simulators, 1957
Box 25, Folder 27		Article about Murray family farm vacation, 1957
Box 25, Folder 28		Nixon’s My Boss [article about Rosemary Woods], 1957
Box 25, Folder 29		Notes on my Trade, 1957
Box 25, Folder 30		The Un-American Dream, 1957
Box 25, Folder 31		What Do You Mean By Hopeless?, 1957
Box 25, Folder 32		YMCA, 1957
Box 25, Folder 33		23 Ways To Find Money On Your Doorstep, 1958
Box 25, Folder 34		Blue Collar Workforce, 1958
Box 25, Folder 35		Blueprint for Toughening Up Our Schools, 1958
Box 25, Folder 36		Children of the Empty World, 1958
Box 25, Folder 37		Employments, 1958
Box 25, Folder 38		The Great Summer Gold Rush, 1958
Box 25, Folder 39		He Saves Minds with the Sweat Cure, 1958
Box 25, Folder 40		The Man Who Stopped Time / Edgerton and His Magic Light, 1958
Box 25, Folder 41		The Most Powerful Instinct, 1958
Box 25, Folder 42		The Mural (written as Edgar Williams), 1958
Box 25, Folder 43		Percy Spencer and His Itch to Know, 1958
Box 25, Folder 44		Secrecy Does Not Mean Security, 1958
Box 25, Folder 45		They Win, and They Win, and They Win, 1958
Box 25, Folder 46		(Article ideas), 1959
Box 25, Folder 47		Air Force Idea Center, 1959
Box 25, Folder 48		Burns, Kansas, 1959
Box 25, Folder 49		Captured: The Wonderful World Of Sound, 1959
Box 25, Folder 50		Conventions, 1959
Box 25, Folder 51		Edwin Link / Aviation Simulation, 1959
Box 25, Folder 52		The Exciting World of Recorded Sound, 1959
Box 25, Folder 53		A Father’s Helping Hand, 1959
Box 25, Folder 54		Man-Made Muscle: New Horizons for the Paralyzed, 1959
Box 25, Folder 55		Ride With Death, 1959
Box 25, Folder 56		Ride With Our Firemen, 1959
Box 25, Folder 57		Wind Tunnel, ca. 1959
Box 25, Folder 58		Your Doctor’s New Silent Partner, ca. 1959
Box 25, Folder 59		Captain Kangaroo, 1950s-1960s
Box 25, Folder 60		Amazing Machines That Make Believe, 1960
Box 25, Folder 61		Birth Control Pill, 1960
Box 25, Folder 62		Calvin Coolidge, 1960
Box 25, Folder 63		Undated notes for an article about coal production, ca. 1960s
Box 25, Folder 64		Dana Buxton (polio survivor), 1960
Box 25, Folder 65		David Morse and his Global Skills Building Program, 1960
Box 25, Folder 66		Dillinger – Public Enemy No. 1, 1960
Box 25, Folder 67		The Facts Behind Food Scares, 1960
Box 25, Folder 68		Jascha Heifetz, 1960
Box 25, Folder 69		The Other John F. Kennedy, 1960
Box 25, Folder 70		Palm Springs: Wonderland in a Wasteland, 1960
Box 25, Folder 71		Tranquilizers At The Zoo, 1960
Box 25, Folder 72		U.S. Speedtraps, 1960
Box 25, Folder 73		U.S. Timberland Bonanza, 1960
Box 25, Folder 74		Airports, 1961
Box 25, Folder 75		Damndest Yankees: 26th Infantry Division, 1961
Box 25, Folder 76		Flying Saucers, 1961
Box 25, Folder 77		Giorgio Tozzi, 1961
Box 25, Folder 78		The Lovely Lady of Wall Street, 1961
Box 25, Folder 79		Now I Walk Alone, 1961
Box 25, Folder 80		One Million Times 98 Cents, 1961
Box 25, Folder 81		O’Sullivan’s Wonderful Lead Balloon, 1961
Box 25, Folder 82		Pasadena: Where They Light Up The Stars, 1961
Box 25, Folder 83		Speed Traps Follow Up, 1961
Box 25, Folder 84		What Should A Funeral Cost?, 1961
Box 25, Folder 85		Library of Congress, 1961-1965
Box 25, Folder 86		Aerospace Corporation, ca. 1962
Box 25, Folder 87		American Cancer Society, 1962
Box 25, Folder 88		Chuck Yaeger article proposal, 1962
Box 25, Folder 89		Article contract for Reader’s Digest publications, 1962
Box 25, Folder 90		Education, 1962
Box 25, Folder 91		Grandma, Stay Away From My Door! (with Minnie Mae, written under the pseudonyms Robert and Ruth Neilson), 1962
Box 25, Folder 92		The Housewife’s Secret Sickness, 1962
Box 25, Folder 93		I Live With Grocery Carts, 1962
Box 25, Folder 94		Violence, 1962
Box 25, Folder 95		What Had Been Given, 1962
Box 25, Folder 96		When You Are Called To The Stand, 1962
Box 25, Folder 97		My Business Is Selling Dreams, 1963
Box 25, Folder 98		Nursing Homes in New Jersey, 1963
Box 25, Folder 99		The Secret Life of Richard Watt, 1963
Box 25, Folder 100		The Secret World of the Suburban Cop, 1963
Box 26
Box 26, Folder 1		Steuben at Valley Forge, 1963
Box 26, Folder 2		Turn Off That Shower And Run A Tub!, 1963
Box 26, Folder 3		What You Should Know About The Drugs You Take, 1963
Box 26, Folder 4		Eight Dangerous Myths About TB, 1964
Box 26, Folder 5		Influenza, 1964
Box 26, Folder 6		Condition Critical: Cause Unknown, 1965
Box 26, Folder 7		Diabetes, 1965
Box 26, Folder 8		Flu: The Underestimated Enemy, 1965
Box 26, Folder 9		An Eye For An Eye, 1965
Box 26, Folder 10		New Cure for the Fatal Sadness, 1966
Box 26, Folder 11		Obituary of Robert S. Gerdy, 1966
Box 26, Folder 12		The Secret To Saving Your Teeth, 1966
Box 26, Folder 13		Emphysema, 1967
Box 26, Folder 14		The Explorers of Inner Space, 1968
Box 26, Folder 15		Give Your Students The Writer’s 5 Experiences, 1968
Box 26, Folder 16		The Twelve Basic Elements of Dramatic Writing, After 1968
Box 26, Folder 17		34 Questions Teachers Ask About Teaching Writing, 1969
Box 26, Folder 18		Evaluating Creative Writing, 1969
Box 26, Folder 19		Finding Your Own Voice: Teaching Composition In An Age Of Dissent, 1969
Box 26, Folder 20		The Practical Advantage of An Impractical Education, 1969
Box 26, Folder 21		Writer’s Cycle Of Craft, 1969
Box 26, Folder 22		A Writer On Writing, 1969
Box 26, Folder 23		The Writer’s Toughest Reader, 1969
Box 26, Folder 24		Your Elementary Pupil And The Writer’s Cycle of Craft, 1969
Box 26, Folder 25		Making Writing Clear, ca. 1970
Box 26, Folder 26		The Interior View: One Writer’s Philosophy of Composition, 1970
Box 26, Folder 27		58 Ways to Make Writing Clear and Vigorous, 1970
Box 26, Folder 28		Untitled, for “In Parenthesis” magazine, UNH, 1970s
Box 26, Folder 29		The Old Crisis in Writing, 1970
Box 26, Folder 30		The Process Approach: One Writer’s View of How Meaning Is Made, 1970
Box 26, Folder 31		Some Of My Best Friends Are Lawyers, But… 1970
Box 26, Folder 32		Untitled, undated 1st draft of article about editing writing, 1970
Box 26, Folder 33		What Does A Novelist Believe? ca. 1970s
Box 26, Folder 34		What To Do Until The Writing Comes, 1970s
Box 26, Folder 35		A Writer’s Day, 1970s
Box 26, Folder 36		Dominant Impression, 1972
Box 26, Folder 37		Finding A Poem, 1972
Box 26, Folder 38		Listening To Voices, 1972
Box 26, Folder 39		Teaching Writing As A Process, 1972
Box 26, Folder 40		Teach Process or Product? 1972
Box 26, Folder 41		How A Newspaper Can Help You Teach Composition, ca. 1973
Box 26, Folder 42		The Maker’s Eye, 1973 (later revised in 1998)
Box 26, Folder 43		Perhaps The Professor Should Cut Class, 1973
Box 26, Folder 44		Research for an article on Scottish Tartan patterns, 1973
Box 26, Folder 45		Reports From Inner Space, ca. 1973
Box 26, Folder 46		What Can You Say Besides Awk? 1973
Box 26, Folder 47		Why Creative Writing Isn’t – Or is 1973
Box 26, Folder 48		Why Teach Writing, and How? 1973
Box 26, Folder 49		The Lonely Communities, 1974
Box 26, Folder 50		What, No Assignment? 1974
Box 26, Folder 51		Introduce The Writing Process – Tomorrow, 1975
Box 26, Folder 52		Internal Revision: A Process of Discovery, 1975
Box 27
Box 27, Folder 1		On The Work of Writing, 1975
Box 27, Folder 2		Write To Read: Creative Writing in the Reading Program, 1975
Box 27, Folder 3		The Feel of Writing, 1976
Box 27, Folder 4		How To Write An Article – I Think – And How I Feel While I’m Doing It – I Think, 1976
Box 27, Folder 5		Reading For Surprise 1976, 1976
Box 27, Folder 6		Teach The Motivating Force of Revision 1976, 1976
Box 27, Folder 7		What NH Means To Me In This Bicentennial Year, 1976
Box 27, Folder 8		From Subject To Draft, 1976
Box 27, Folder 9		Notes On Editing A Non-Fiction Article, 1977
Box 27, Folder 10		The Old Crisis In Writing, ca. 1977
Box 27, Folder 11		Our Students Will Write – If We Let Them, 1977
Box 27, Folder 12		They Want To Write, 1977
Box 27, Folder 13		The View From The Field: What Writers Feel, Do, and See During the Writing Process, 1977
Box 27, Folder 14		Write Before Writing, 1977
Box 27, Folder 15		How Writing Finds Its Own Meaning: The Process of Teaching Process, 1978
Box 27, Folder 16		Man Against The Earth, 1978
Box 27, Folder 17		Do Newspapers Want Writers? 1979
Box 27, Folder 18		Grant Your Students Their Voting Rights, 1979
Box 27, Folder 19		The Listening Eye: Reflections on The Writing Conference, 1979
Box 27, Folder 20		The Qualities Of Good Writing, 1979
Box 27, Folder 21		What Makes Readers Read? 1979
Box 27, Folder 22		Writing For Surprise, 1979
Box 27, Folder 23		How I Got That Story, ca. 1980
Box 27, Folder 24		Brainstorming And Writing, early 1980s
Box 27, Folder 25		23 Ways To Make Your Story More Interesting, 1980s
Box 27, Folder 26		Basic Rules of Journalism, 1980s
Box 27, Folder 27		Can Writing Be Taught? 1980s
Box 27, Folder 28		Editing In An Age Of Diversity, 1980s
Box 27, Folder 29		The Feel of Writing – And Teaching Writing, 1980
Box 27, Folder 30		Five Steps Towards Implementing A Writing Program, with Don Graves, 1980
Box 27, Folder 31		The Hidden Art of Editing Exposed, 1980s
Box 27, Folder 32		How Do You Rate The Writer’s Successes? 1980s
Box 27, Folder 33		How Writing Finds Its Own Meaning, 1980
Box 27, Folder 34		Listening To Writing 1980, 1980, republished 2009
Box 27, Folder 35		The Making of ‘Listening To Writing,’ 1980
Box 27, Folder 36		Not-So-Good-Old Days, 1980
Box 27, Folder 37		A Program To Improve Writing, 1980s
Box 27, Folder 38		Read The Language of Discovery ca. 1980, 0
Box 27, Folder 39		Reflections On Language Arts, 1980
Box 27, Folder 40		Revision: In the Writer’s Workshop And In The Classroom, with Don Graves, 1980
Box 27, Folder 41		Some Notes On Teaching Freshmen English, 1980
Box 27, Folder 42		Speech on journalism and editors, for the American Press Institute, 1980
Box 27, Folder 43		Variations on a Theme: Truth, 1980
Box 27, Folder 44		The Writer’s Seven Steps, 1980s
Box 27, Folder 45		Writing As A Process, 1980
Box 27, Folder 46		Editors Must Find New Ways To Develop And Retain Writers, 1981
Box 27, Folder 47		Flemming, 1981
Box 27, Folder 48		Making Meaning Clear: The Logic of Revision, 1981
Box 27, Folder 49		Out of Silence, A Voice, 1981
Box 27, Folder 50		The Politics of Respect, 1981
Box 27, Folder 51		Reading What Isn’t Written – Yet, 1981
Box 27, Folder 52		The Revisor’s Craft, 1981
Box 27, Folder 53		The Teaching Craft: Telling, Listening, Revealing, 1981
Box 27, Folder 54		Which Books On Writing And Editing Should Be In The Newsroom? 1981
Box 27, Folder 55		Conference Guidelines, 1982
Box 27, Folder 56		From What to Why: The Changing Style of Newswriting, 1982
Box 27, Folder 57		Teaching The Other Self: The Writer’s First Reader, 1982
Box 27, Folder 58		UNH Campus Journal profile of Charles Simic, 1982
Box 27, Folder 59		What Is A Practical Education? 1982
Box 27, Folder 60		Wind Turbines, 1982
Box 27, Folder 61		Write Research To Be Read, 1982
Box 27, Folder 62		Consultive Editing, 1983
Box 27, Folder 63		First Silence, Then Paper, 1983
Box 27, Folder 64		Listening For Meaning: A Celebration of the Prose Line, 1983
Box 27, Folder 65		A Process Approach To Newswriting, 1983
Box 27, Folder 66		Writing Badly to Write Well, 1983
Box 27, Folder 67		Writing Fiction: A Self-Interview, 1983
Box 27, Folder 68		Writing For Many Roles: Newswriting, 1984
Box 28
Box 28, Folder 1		How To Write The Lead Notes For the Lead Writer,, 1984
Box 28, Folder 2		On The Cutting Edge Of Writing, 1984
Box 28, Folder 3		Relating Reading And Writing In The College Years, 1984
Box 28, Folder 4		Writing And Teaching For Surprise, 1984
Box 28, Folder 5		How I Write? 1984
Box 28, Folder 6		Memo to a New Feature Writer, 1984
Box 28, Folder 7		Newswriting, 1984
Box 28, Folder 8		Switzerland At Its Best, 1984
Box 28, Folder 9		What Happens When Students Learn To Write, 1984
Box 28, Folder 10		Tricks of the Nonfiction Trade, 1984
Box 28, Folder 11		An Essay On Not Writing An Essay, 1984
Box 28, Folder 12		The Essential Delay: When Writer’s Block Isn’t, 1984
Box 28, Folder 13		Expecting Writing, 1984
Box 28, Folder 14		The First Draft: A Celebration, 1984
Box 28, Folder 15		Getting Under The Lightning, 1984
Box 28, Folder 16		Listening To Writers, 1984
Box 28, Folder 17		Publish And Flourish, 1985
Box 28, Folder 18		Response To Teaching Of Writing, 1985
Box 28, Folder 19		Seven Hints To Improve Any Newspaper Story, 1985
Box 28, Folder 20		Tricks Of Our Trade, 1985
Box 28, Folder 21		What Makes Students Write, 1985
Box 28, Folder 22		The Writer’s I, 1985
Box 28, Folder 23		Imagine Not Writing, 1985or later
Box 28, Folder 24		The Most Important Development of the Last Five Years for High School Teachers of Composition, ca. 1985
Box 28, Folder 25		Is Textbook Writing Writing?, 1985-1986
Box 28, Folder 26		Case History Of An Article, 1985
Box 28, Folder 27		The Importance of Bad Writing And How We Can Encourage It, 1986
Box 28, Folder 28		One Writer’s Secrets, 1986
Box 28, Folder 29		Tackling The Lead, Winning Out In The End, 1986
Box 28, Folder 30		Rehearsing Rehearsing, 1986
Box 28, Folder 31		Writing Is Thinking, 1986or later
Box 28, Folder 32		Address at CWP spring conference, 1987
Box 28, Folder 33		Notes Of A Long Distance Writer, 1987
Box 28, Folder 34		A Tale of Two Cities, 1987
Box 28, Folder 35		To Heck With Nostalgia, 1987
Box 28, Folder 36		When I Retire, 1987
Box 28, Folder 37		Eulogy for George Griewank, 1988
Box 28, Folder 38		Exploring The Magic of the Line, 1988
Box 28, Folder 39		How The Text Instructs: Writing Teaches Writing, 1988
Box 28, Folder 40		Writers Teach Researchers / Researchers Teach Writers / Teachers Instruct Both (as Ian Morison), 1988
Box 28, Folder 41		Reading For Surprise, 1988
Box 28, Folder 42		Writing On Writing: The Craft of Description, 1988
Box 28, Folder 43		Cultivating Surprise, 1989
Box 28, Folder 44		Don’t Profess, Coach, 1989
Box 28, Folder 45		Lecture on writing news columns, 1989
Box 28, Folder 46		One Writer’s Notes On Narrative, 1989
Box 28, Folder 47		Read The Reading Before The Text, 1989
Box 28, Folder 48		Unlearning to Write, 1989
Box 28, Folder 49		Use Genre As Lens, 1990s
Box 28, Folder 50		Receiving A Poem, 1990
Box 28, Folder 51		Literature Of Tomorrow / Notes on Creative Writing, 1990
Box 28, Folder 52		Writing By Ear / Tune Your Creative Writing Voice, 1990
Box 28, Folder 53		Fifteen Ways To Make Writing Easy, 1990s or later
Box 28, Folder 54		Going Public: The Craft of Writing To Yourself for Others, 1990s
Box 28, Folder 55		Pushing The Edge, 1990
Box 28, Folder 56		Writing After A Career of Writing, 1990
Box 28, Folder 57		Teaching Don Murray To Write (Bonnie Sunstein), 1990
Box 28, Folder 58		What A Beginning Writer Needs To Know, 1990
Box 28, Folder 59		Case History Of An Essay, 1990
Box 28, Folder 60		Why Murray was hired at UNH, 1991
Box 28, Folder 61		How Poems Think, 1991
Box 28, Folder 62		If I Returned As A Freshman, I’d... 1991
Box 28, Folder 63		How Writer’s See the Unseen Text, 1991
Box 28, Folder 64		Taking A Poetic Trip To Manitoba, 1991
Box 28, Folder 65		All Writing Is Autobiography, 1991
Box 28, Folder 66		One Writer’s Curriculum, 1991
Box 28, Folder 67		The Writer In The Newsroom, 1991
Box 28, Folder 68		What I Need From My Editors, 1992
Box 28, Folder 69		One Writer’s Processes, 1992
Box 28, Folder 70		Why And How I Write, 1992
Box 28, Folder 71		A Writer’s Habits, 1992
Box 28, Folder 72		How I Write A Column, 1993
Box 28, Folder 73		Following The Voice of the Draft, 1993
Box 28, Folder 74		How To Get The Writing Done, 1993
Box 28, Folder 75		Write To Teach Writing, 1993
Box 28, Folder 76		Letter To A Young Article Writer, 1993
Box 28, Folder 77		A Confession of Strengths, 1993
Box 28, Folder 78		"Let The Draft Teach" response to Writing Fiction: A Self-Interview, 1994
Box 28, Folder 79		The Writing Conference, 1994
Box 28, Folder 80		Forward to “How Writers Journey To Comfort and Fluency," 1994
Box 28, Folder 81		Memo To A Beginning Essay Writer, 1994
Box 28, Folder 82		Where Do You Find Your Stories? 1994
Box 28, Folder 83		Laer og Skriv, 1994
Box 28, Folder 84		A Preface On Rejection (written in 1994, about article entitled “Pushing The Edge” which was written in 1990), 1994
Box 28, Folder 85		My One-Desk Schoolhouse, 1994
Box 28, Folder 86		Newspapers Need Writers, 1994
Box 28, Folder 87		The Craft Of Telling, 1994
Box 28, Folder 88		Writing At Seventy: Still Lost In The Work, 1994
Box 28, Folder 89		Knowing Not Knowing, 1994
Box 28, Folder 90		How The Draft Instructs, 1994
Box 28, Folder 91		Minnie Mae Cooks A Poem, 1994
Box 28, Folder 92		Forward to Clark’s “Free To Write”, 1995
Box 28, Folder 93		Oklahoma: Fight The Urge To Fight Back, 1995
Box 28, Folder 94		My Legs Run My Life, 1995
Box 28, Folder 95		Qualities of Good Writing, 1995
Box 28, Folder 96		Real Writers Don’t Burn Out, 1995
Box 28, Folder 97		Writing Fiction: A Self-Interview, 1995, reprint
Box 28, Folder 98		Before Writing: Remember What Makes Writing Easy, 1995
Box 28, Folder 99		To Compose, 1995?
Box 28, Folder 100		Rewriting Teaching, 1995
Box 28, Folder 101		Why I Write The Personal Essay, 1995
Box 28, Folder 102		Being Retired Takes Too Much Time, 1995
Box 28, Folder 103		What Writers Can Do For Newspapers, 1995
Box 28, Folder 104		Some Notes On Revision, 1995
Box 29
Box 29, Folder 1		Why You Should Write When You Have No Time To Write And How You Can Get It Done, 1996
Box 29, Folder 2		Response to ‘Nutshells, Monkeys, and The Writer’s Craft,' 1996
Box 29, Folder 3		An Earfull on Picking and Pecking Corn, 1996
Box 29, Folder 4		Rewriting Teaching, 1996
Box 29, Folder 5		Do’s and Don’ts of Magazine Article Writing, 1996
Box 29, Folder 6		Notes On Creative Writing, 1996
Box 29, Folder 7		Why – And How – You Should Write When You Have No Time To Write, 1996
Box 29, Folder 8		The Seeing Line, 1997
Box 29, Folder 9		Response/Reading of Essay by Bill Mayher, 1997
Box 29, Folder 10		Reprints of “How To Develop Your Craft”, “What I need From My Editors”, and “Covering The Self”, 1997
Box 29, Folder 11		A Bookstore on the Road to Serendipity [about the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter NH], 1998
Box 29, Folder 12		Dual Citizenship, 1998
Box 29, Folder 13		Write What You Don’t Know, 1998
Box 29, Folder 14		Leaping Onto The Blank Page, 1998
Box 29, Folder 15		The Maker’s Eye (1998, reprint of 1973), 1998
Box 29, Folder 16		Homeward Bound, 1999
Box 29, Folder 17		The Art of the Essay, 1999
Box 29, Folder 18		Celebrate Your Life: The Craft of Writing The Family Memoir, 1999
Box 29, Folder 19		Twenty Ways To Unfinal A Draft, 2000s
Box 29, Folder 20		The Therapy Of The Writing Desk, 2000
Box 29, Folder 21		West Running Brook, 2000
Box 29, Folder 22		Forward to Christopher Scanlan’s “Reporting and Writing Basics for the 21st Century”, 2000
Box 29, Folder 23		How To Cook Corn On The Cob, 2000
Box 29, Folder 24		For Garden Lane: The Seeing Hand, 2000
Box 29, Folder 25		How To Make Writing Easy, 2000
Box 29, Folder 26		What’s Not In The History Books (essay on war), 2000
Box 29, Folder 27		Don Murray’s Editing Guidelines, 2000
Box 29, Folder 28		A Landscape Of Words, 2000
Box 29, Folder 29		Dear Teachers (2001, response to 9/11/2001), 2001
Box 29, Folder 30		Finding The News Source Within Yourself, 2001
Box 29, Folder 31		Forward to ‘Breaking Traditions: Stories for 2001, 2001
Box 29, Folder 32		Some Things I Wish I Had Known About Writing When I Was 21, 2002
Box 29, Folder 33		Reading What I Haven’t Written, 2004
Box 29, Folder 34		Can Writing Be Taught? 2004
Box 29, Folder 35		How To Write Before Writing, ca. 2005
Box 29, Folder 36		The Privilege of Giving Care, 2005
Box 29, Folder 37		Write Before Writing (not the same as the 1970s article of the same name), 2006
Box 29, Folder 38		Teach Writing Your Way, 2006
Box 29, Folder 39		Fragments of unidentified, undated writing, undated
Box 29, Folder 40		Television series: “Books + Writers” – WNEH-TV, 1965-66, 1965-1966
Box 29, Folder 41		Proposal for a series of TV journalism workshops/shows, 1967
Box 29, Folder 42		“Writah.com” – teaching writing through the medium of the web (website sketches, proposal), 2006
Box 29, Folder 43-61		Interviews of Donald Murray, 1960-2006 and undated
Box 29, Folder 62		Series of interviews with other writers conducted by Murray, dated, ca. 1968-1972

A single folder at the beginning of this series contains reviews Murray wrote of other writer's works. Murray's own short fiction (box 30) are often kernals of his later novels, which are found chronologically ordered in boxes 30-36. His two published memoirs ("My Twice Lived Life" and "The Lively Shadow") are found in box 37. The rest of the series consists of Murray's published and unpublished textbooks. These are arranged chronologically by date of first publication. Editions are chronologically filed within each title.

Box 30
Box 30, Folder 1		Reviews of other’s works, 1950s-2000s
Box 30, Folder 2		Untitled: Memories of WWII, undated
Box 30, Folder 3		Untitled: Short stories / Fragments, 1970s-2000s and undated
Box 30, Folder 4		The Black Temptation / The Beach Temptation, ca. 1940-1950s
Box 30, Folder 5		A Gal Called Hackett, 1940s
Box 30, Folder 6		The Importance of Journalism, 1940s
Box 30, Folder 7		I Live On Sucker Street, 1940s-1950s
Box 30, Folder 8		The God Coke, 1950s
Box 30, Folder 9		My Brother Cain, 1950s
Box 30, Folder 10		The Remembered Gifts, 1959
Box 30, Folder 11		Walking Like An Indian, 1960s? (undated)
Box 30, Folder 12		Four Eyes, ca. 1960
Box 30, Folder 13		The Gun, 1962
Box 30, Folder 14		Edge of the Shadow, undated
Box 30, Folder 15		When She Could Not Get Ideas For Writing, undated
Box 30, Folder 16		Experiments in Beginning, undated
Box 30, Folder 17		Untitled story about a veteran named Craig, undated
Box 30, Folder 18		Wonderful Long White Apron, 1972
Box 30, Folder 19		Waiting: A Woman’s Story, 1977
Box 30, Folder 20		Bruce Norden, 1980
Box 30, Folder 21		Sweet Mistreaters (1980s, possibly written by Murray under the name “Mark Smith”), 1981
Box 30, Folder 22		Drawing From Life, 1981
Box 30, Folder 23		Life With Hannah’s Rubber Tree, 1981
Box 30, Folder 24		The Weight of Sunlight on a Maple Leaf, 1980s, undated
Box 30, Folder 25		Pearl Harbor, 1987
Box 30, Folder 26		Untitled, incomplete fiction, 1989
Box 30, Folder 27		War Stories, 1990
Box 30, Folder 28		Listening To Stories, 1990s
Box 30, Folder 29		“Duke’s Secret” and “Ian Morison”, 1991
Box 30, Folder 30		Seder Haggadah rewritten from Egyptian Solders’ point of view, 2000s
Box 30, Folder 31		Another Dead Solder, 2002
Box 30, Folder 32		Emma’s Revenge, 2002
Box 30, Folder 33		Envelope with “Stories Don Has Written” on the front, undated
Box 30, Folder 34		“The Bayonet”: notebook outline for a non-fiction history of the weapon, 1960s
Box 30, Folder 35-45		“The Godplayer” novel materials (begun ca. 1959): correspondence, proposal, drafts, journals, 1959-1966
Box 31
Box 31, Folder 1-2		Godplayer (complete drafts), ca. 1960s
Box 31, Folder 3		Brainstorming (ghostwritten fiction, contract only), 1957
Box 31, Folder 4		Man Against Earth (non-fiction), published 1961
Box 31, Folder 5		When Passion Governs (historical fiction book proposal), 1961
Box 31, Folder 6		To Be Dying (novel), 1961
Box 31, Folder 6-10		The Sensation (romance novel written under pseudonym Ian Morison), 1963
Box 31, Folder 11-18		The World Of Sound Recording (juvenile non-fiction), published 1965
Box 31, Folder 19-28		Out Of The Thorn (novel), begun ca. 1961
Box 32
Box 32, Folder 1-6		Out Of The Thorn (novel), 1961-1964
Box 32, Folder 7-20		The Man Who Had Everything (novel), 1960s-1970s
Box 33
Box 33, Folder 1-25		The Ghosting of Mantin Blake (novel), 1965-1978
Box 34
Box 34, Folder 1-13		The Ghosting of Mantin Blake (later titled simply "Ghosting"), 1979-1985
Box 34, Folder 14		One On One (novel), 1968
Box 34, Folder 15-19		The Kovel Accountancy (novel, cowritten with Christopher Scanlan), 1986
Box 34, Folder 20-22		My Military History of the Twentieth Century (fiction), 1983-1985
Box 35
Box 35, Folder 1-22		My Military History of the Twentieth Century (continued), and related short stories, 1983-1985
Box 35, Folder 23-25		Untitled novel - possibly a version of "My Military History...", undated
Box 36
Box 36, Folder 1-2		Field Of Fire (novel), 1990
Box 36, Folder 3		An Ordinary War (novel), 1992
Box 36, Folder 4		Letting Go (novel), 1998
Box 36, Folder 5		Life Support (novel), 2000
Box 36, Folder 6-8		A Military History of the United States 1898-2007 (novel, different from Murray's similarly titled works), 2002
Box 36, Folder 9-25		My Twice Lived Life (memoir), 2002
Box 37
Box 37, Folder 1-6		My Twice Lived Life (continued), 2002
Box 37, Folder 7-18		The Lively Shadow (memoir), 2003
Box 37, Folder 19		Book proposals for unwritten works, ca. 1970-2006
Box 37, Folder 20		Terminated contracts for unwritten works, 1963-2007
Box 37, Folder 21		Contracts whose related work is unclear, 1986-1994
Box 37, Folder 22		Textbook fragments, undated
Box 37, Folder 23-32		New England School Development Council (NESDC) writing curriculum, 1965-1966
Box 38
Box 38, Folder 1-10		NESDC (continued), 1966-1967
Box 38, Folder 11-24		A Writer Teaches Writing, 1st edition (1968) and 2nd edition (1985); reissued 2002 (possible early title: “Pushing The Edge”), 1968-2002
Box 39
Box 39, Folder 1-5		A Writer Teaches Writing (continued), 1985-2002
Box 39, Folder 6		A Writer Writes (proposal for unwritten work), 1969
Box 39, Folder 7-27		Write To Communicate, 1973
Box 40
Box 40, Folder 1-23		Write To Communicate (continued), 1973
Box 41
Box 41, Folder 1-24		Write To Communicate (continued), 1973
Box 42
Box 42, Folder 1-6		Write To Communicate (continued), 1973
Box 42, Folder 7-9		Write To Know, 1973
Box 42, Folder 10-14		Writing As A Process, 1980
Box 42, Folder 15		The Card Exercise, early 1980s
Box 42, Folder 16-17		Write To Pursuade, ca. 1981
Box 42, Folder 18-25		Learning By Teaching (1st edition 1982, 2nd edition 1992), 1982-1992
Box 42, Folder 26-30		Writing For Your Readers, 1938
Box 43
Box 43, Folder 1-10		Writing For Your Readers (continued), 1938
Box 43, Folder 11		Colleague in the Classroom, 1985
Box 43, Folder 12		A Writer's Handbook, 1985
Box 43, Folder 12-22		Write To Learn (1st edition), 1985
Box 44
Box 44, Folder 1-22		Write To Learn (1st edition continued, 2nd edition), 1985
Box 45
Box 45, Folder 1-28		Write To Learn (3rd edition 1990, 4th edition 1993, 5th edition 1996, 6th edition 1999), 1990-1999
Box 46
Box 46, Folder 1-23		Write To Learn (6th edition continued, 7th edition 2000), 1999-2000
Box 47
Box 47, Folder 1-20		Write To Learn (7th edition continued, 8th edition 2005 unpublished), 2000-2005
Box 47, Folder 21-22		Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993
Box 48
Box 48, Folder 1-23		Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993
Box 49
Box 49, Folder 1-25		Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993
Box 50
Box 50, Folder 1-15		Read To Write (1st edition 1985, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1993), 1985-1993
Box 50, Folder 16-23		Expecting The Unexpected, 1989
Box 51
Box 51, Folder 1-15		Shoptalk, 1990
Box 51, Folder 16-26		Craft Of Revision (1st edition 1990, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition 1998, 4th edition 1999, 5th edition 2002, 6th edition unpublished 2005), 1990-2005
Box 52
Box 52, Folder 1-24		Craft Of Revision (1st edition 1990, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition 1998, 4th edition 1999, 5th edition 2002, 6th edition unpublished 2005), 1990-2005
Box 53
Box 53, Folder 1-5		Craft Of Revision (1st edition 1990, 2nd edition 1994, 3rd edition 1998, 4th edition 1999, 5th edition 2002, 6th edition unpublished 2005), 1990-2005
Box 53, Folder 6-10		Write To Teach Writing, 1995
Box 53, Folder 11-16		Crafting A Life In Essay, Story, Poem, 1996
Box 53, Folder 17-23		Learning To Write By Drawing / Following The Line 1996-1998
Box 53, Folder 24-25		A Writer In The Newsroom, 1996
Box 53, Folder 26-32		Working Journalist / Writing To Deadline, 1999
Box 54
Box 54, Folder 1-3		Working Journalist / Writing To Deadline, 1999
Box 54, Folder 4-5		Welcome To The Writer's Craft, 2002

This series covers Murray's formal teaching activities, starting with the Boston Globe and continuing through his tenure at UNH (1963-1987). UNH materials include syllabi/notes for specific classes organized by course number, and the creation of the UNH Journalism Lab. Non-UNH teaching materials include syllabi/notes/speeches for conferences, speaking engagements, and writing seminars. The rest of the series consists of printed handouts, quotations on writing and bibliographies which are not identified by specific event.

Box 54
Box 54, Folder 6-14		Boston Globe journalist teaching program, 1960s-1980s
Box 54, Folder 15-19		UNH Journalism Program, 1960s-2000s
Box 54, Folder 20-29		UNH teaching and class materials arranged by course number, 1963-1987
Box 55
Box 55, Folder 1-16		UNH teaching and class materials (continued), 1963-1987
Box 55, Folder 17-28		Murray's professional UNH activities; hiring, annual reports, tenure, retirement, 1963-1987
Box 55, Folder 29-35		Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Seminars, 1950s-1975
Box 56
Box 56, Folder 1-20		Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Seminars (continued), 1976-1989
Box 57
Box 57, Folder 1-19		Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Seminars (concluded), 1990-2006
Box 57, Folder 20-21		Murray on writing (unidentified handouts and notes), 1960s-1980s
Box 58
Box 58, Folder 1-8		Murray on writing (continued), 1970s-2006s and undated
Box 58, Folder 9		Bibliographies of recommended reading for writers, undated
Box 58, Folder 10-13		Collected quotations on writing, undated

This series contains the many awards Murry recieved, including his Pulitzer Prize certificate (Box 58 f. 14), emphemera from his employment at Time Magazine and the Boston Herald, and UNH/personal emphemera. A small amount of multimedia contains lectures, interviews and drafts. Five oversize boxes contain large drafts and art, two Pulitzer scrapbooks the Murrays made for their daughters, framed memorabilia/awards, and newspapers/emphemera from his military career and overseas service.

Box 58
Box 58, Folder 14		Pulitzer Prize certificate, 1954
Box 58, Folder 15		Air Force Association Citation of Honor, 1954
Box 58, Folder 16		Awards, 1981-1985
Box 58, Folder 17		University of Lowell award, 1986
Box 58, Folder 18		NH School Boards Association award, 1987
Box 58, Folder 19		Awards, 1990-1996
Box 58, Folder 20		Fitchburg State College, honorary doctorate, 1992
Box 58, Folder 21		NH Assocation of Teachers of English award, 1994
Box 58, Folder 22		New Hampshire College (Manchester) honoary doctorate, 1997
Box 58, Folder 23		NH Writer's Project award, 2001
Box 58, Folder 24		Awards, undated
Box 59
Box 59, Folder 1		"Carols of Glad Tidings Shout" (music by Alison Demarest, text by Murray), undated
Box 59, Folder 2		Yankee Quill Award, 1981
Box 59, Folder 3		UNH Alumni Association Profile of Service award, 1985
Box 59, Folder 4		Time Magazine: "What Makes Time Tick" employee welcome packet, 1954
Box 59, Folder 5		Time Magazine: paperweight, 1954
Box 59, Folder 6		Sign reading "Don Murray, The Boston Herald", undated
Box 59, Folder 7		NH automobile license plates reading "OVER60", 2001
Box 59, Folder 8		"nulla dies sine linea" wall art, undated
Box 60
Box 60, Item 1-40		15 VHS tapes, 16 cassette tapes, and 9 discs of interviews with Murray, (some have Minnie Mae and Hannah Murray too). Topics include writing and aging. 1977-2006 and undated
Box 60, Item 41-42		3.5” floppy discs labeled “failed novel drafts”, 1999
Box 60, Item 43-47		Cassette tapes of Don Graves talking about writing, 1993-1998 and undated
Box 60, Folder 48		New Hampshire Literary Awards: 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award given to Don Murray (glass desk sculpture), 2001
Oversize Box 1
Oversize Box 1, Item 1		“Occupied Territory” daybook, 1990 or later
Oversize Box 1, Item 2		Writing Schedules 1962, including one specifically for the novel “Out of the Thorn”, 1962
Oversize Box 1, Item 3		Poster for a reading of "Ghosting", 1970s-1980s
Oversize Box 1, Item 4		Original diagrams drawn by Murray for unidentified book, returned by publisher in 1985
Oversize Box 1, Item 5		Matted book covers for "Shoptalk" and "The Craft of Revision", 1990-2000
Oversize Box 1, Item 6		Tribute book of letters and art from former students, 1996
Oversize Box 2
Oversize Box 2, Item 1		Pulitzer Prize: Homemade scrapbook “A Series of Editorials on National Defense / Written by Don Murray / Published in the BOSTON HERALD / in 1952”, 1952
Oversize Box 2, Item 2		Large scrapbook about Pulitzer Prize, put together by Don and Minnie Mae Murray for their daughters. Items include the original telegraph informing Murray of his achievement, large publicity and awards ceremony photographs, articles Murray wrote, and letters/telegrams of congratulations, 1956
Oversize Box 3
Oversize Box 3, Item 1		Framed book cover: "Write To Learn" 3rd edition, 1990
Oversize Box 3, Item 2		Framed book cover: "Read To Write", 1985-1993
Oversize Box 3, Item 3		New Hampshire College Doctor of Humane Letters diploma, 1997
Oversize Box 3, Item 4		UNH wallclock in commemoration of Murray's Distinguished Teaching Award, 1981
Oversize Box 4
Oversize Box 4, Item 1		Poster for the 1991 John McGrath Memorial Speaker at St. Anselm’s College (NH), featuring Murray on the topic “Teaching for Diversity”., 1991
Oversize Box 4, Item 2		Topographical map centered on Casper, Wyoming (home of the Wyoming Writing Project), undated
Oversize Box 4, Item 3		Boston’s Best of 1991 award to “Best Columnist: Donald M. Murray, Boston Globe”, 1991
Oversize Box 4, Item 4		Oversize cartoon map of the writing process, produced by Mayfield Publishers and drawn by David W. Chapman and Preston Lynn Waller, undated
Oversize Box 4, Item 5		Fitchburg State College honorary doctoral diploma, 1992
Oversize Box 5
Oversize Box 5, Item 1		Boston Herald issues featuring Murray's editorials, mostly 1953-1954
Oversize Box 5, Item 2		The Glen Ridge Paper (NJ) announcing Murray workshop, 1957
Oversize Box 5, Item 3		Life Magazine, Vol. 18 no. 15 “Overseas Service Edition”, featuring an article about Allied paratroopers, 1945
Oversize Box 5, Item 4		Newspaper clippings, including one about Murray’s service in the 17th Airborne (also included in Box 1), the progress of the war, and a small amount of printed Nazi propaganda, 1943-1945
Oversize Box 5, Item 5		Newspapers and magazines published by the 17th Airborne Division about their activities and Division. Includes articles about specific soldiers, including Murray, 1943-1945
Oversize Box 5, Item 6		The Berlin Sentinel newspaper (in English), 1945
Oversize Box 5, Item 7		“The Story of the 82nd All American Airborne Division”, published in Berlin, 1945
Oversize Box 5, Item 8		World's Fair caricature drawing of Murray, 1960s
Oversize Box 5, Item 9		Ann Murray drawings of Donald Murray, undated
Oversize Box 5, Item 10		Drawing of a whale, possibly by Minnie Mae, undated

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Sunday, september 9, 2012, “all writing is autobiography”- donald m. murray.

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I couldn't agree more. A lot of writing is based off the author's experiences, beliefs, knowledge, and attitudes which leaves "pieces of them" on the pages that they write. Even if they try to stay objective, sometime those piece still find a way to leak on the page.

I definitely agree a lot with what you wrote. I also talked about how we all came from different backgrounds and have been taught by various different teachers. If we all were given the same topic in class to write about, we would all write it differently. Even if, like you said, we were displayed with the same topic, the same number of facts and the same layout. Wikipedia does claim to be objective, but how can we really get past that when we all write differently?

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One last lesson from Don Murray, America’s greatest writing coach

There were five huge boxes sitting at the loading dock of The Poynter Institute yesterday, waiting for the FedEx truck to pick them up. They are filled with more than 125 file boxes containing the literary effects of Donald M. Murray, in my opinion the most influential writing teacher America has ever known.

The precious content of those boxes — including 100 of Murray’s experimental daybooks — are now headed home where they belong: to the University of New Hampshire. Our hope is that students, teachers, scholars, and journalists will now be able to get their eyes and hands on those documents. When they do, they will see a writer and a teacher hard at work, trying to make sense of the English language and the writing process, and trying to help all of us get better as writers.

Good writing may look like magic, Murray argued time and again, but the magic is produced by a rational process, a set of steps. Part of Murray’s genius was his ability to make that argument, to demonstrate it, without making writing feel robotic. Creative acts will still be filled with mystery, and Murray tapped into that energy as well. He was always waiting to learn what surprises were ahead of him as he sat down early each morning to write.

Murray. Photo via University of New Hampshire.

Murray had a profound influence on those of us who taught writing at Poynter. If I was Arthur, he was Merlin. If I was Frodo, he was Gandalf. If I was Luke Skywalker, he was Yoda — only a very big Yoda with a round face, a Santa beard, and a wardrobe — with suspenders — purchased at Walmart.

Don and I arrived at common ground from opposite directions, like two trains in an algebra equation. He flunked out of high school twice, experienced World War II as a paratrooper, got an English degree from UNH in 1948 and headed for a Boston newspaper. In 1954, at the age of 29, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for a long series of opinions on military preparedness. He was the youngest writer ever to win this prize.

A decade later, he returned to UNH as a writing teacher and became one of the founding parents of an approach to composition teaching that emphasized process as well as product. His approach to writing helped changed the way it was taught at every educational level. At professional conferences, he held, but did not desire, a kind of papal status, and his disciples, including me, maintained a zealous appreciation of him as a kind of tribal leader of the word.

I came to journalism from the opposite direction, as a teacher of literature and composition, hired to coach writers at the St. Petersburg Times in 1977. He was hired to coach at The Boston Globe, developed a popular column there, and continued to write almost every day until his death in 2006 at the age of 82.

In 1995, Poynter published an essay by Murray titled “Writer in the Newsroom.” We still distribute it, in monograph form, on special occasions. Like Elvis in Las Vegas, the Don Murray papers have left the Poynter building. In honor of their odyssey back home to New Hampshire, we publish here some of the highlights of Murray’s essay.

Writer in the newsroom: A lifetime apprenticeship By Don Murray

Sixty-one years ago Miss Chapman looked down at me and said, “Donald, you are the class editor.” So much for career planning.

Forty-seven years ago, after having survived infantry combat, college, and a first marriage, I found myself in the city room of the old Boston Herald, determined to learn the newspaper craft and get back to writing great poems.

Now, at 70, I return each morning to my writing desk apprenticed to the writer’s craft.

Monday morning I write my column for the Boston Globe; Tuesday through Sunday I draft yet another book on writing, a novel, a poem. Unemployed, I am blessed by not having to take weekends and holidays off, do not suffer any vacations. “Nulla dies sine linea” [Never a day without a line]: Horace, Pliny, Trollope, Updike.

Chaucer said, “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” I now know he did not speak with complaint but with gratitude.

The Japanese artist Hokusai testified: “I have drawn things since I was six. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73, I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90, I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything — every dot, every dash — will live.”

My bones may creak, I may live on a diet of pills, I may forget names, but when I shuffle down to my computer I see Miss Chapman standing in the corner of the room, nodding encouragement.

A lapsed Baptist, I bear witness to the salvation of a writing life. I do not testify for all writers, just this apprentice to a craft I can never learn. The sculptor Henry Moore said:

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your whole life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is — it must be something you cannot possibly do!”

I evangelize. I wish you failure. I hope you have not yet learned to write but are still learning. If you are confident of your craft and are writing without terror and failure, I hope you will learn how to escape your craft and write so badly you will surprise yourself with what you say and how you are saying it….

I do not consciously seek; I lie in wait, accepting the lines and images that float through my mind, sometimes making mental notes, sometimes scribbled ones.

I live in a curious and delightful state of intense awareness and casual reflection that is difficult to describe. Perhaps it is like those moments in combat when the shooting and the shelling stop and you can hunker down behind a rock wall and rest. In a poem I wrote a few weeks ago, I found myself saying that I was “Among the dead, the dying,/ more alive than I have ever been.”

At that moment in combat I celebrated life, noticing the way a blade of grass recovers from a boot, studying how the sky is reflected in a puddle in the mud, even enjoying the perfume of the horse manure the farmer will use to nurture the spring planting — if there is a spring….

Readers create their own drafts as they read mine, they read the family history of their own blood. Reporters and writers — indeed all artists — set up shop where there is birth and death, success and defeat, love and loneliness, joy and despair.

After I leave my writing desk, I lead a double life. I am a mole, living an ordinary life of errands, chores, conversations with friends, reading, watching TV, eating and — at the same time — I am a spy to my life, maintaining an alertness to the commonplace, the ordinary, the routine where the really important stories appear.

I am never bored. I overhear what is said and not said, delight in irony and contradiction, relish answers without questions and questions without answers, take note of what is and what should be, what was and what may be. I imagine, speculate, make believe, remember, reflect. I am always traitor to the predictable, always welcoming to the unexpected….

I write easily, and that is no accident. I remind myself that John Jerome said, “Perfect is the enemy of good” and follow William Stafford’s advice that “one should lower his standards.” I write fast to outrace the censor and cause the instructive failures that are essential to effective writing.

I write to say I do not know. That is my terror and my joy. I start a column with a line or an image, an island at the edge of the horizon that has not been mapped. And I do not finish the column unless I write what I do not expect to write 40 or 60 percent of the way through. My drafts tell me what I have to say. That is true of my nonfiction books, my fiction, my poetry. I follow the evolving draft. …

I look back at that thin – no longer skinny – young man in the Boston Herald city room so long ago and realize that I did with dumb instinct what I do by design today.

After walking on my first byline when the cleaning women put the first edition down to protect a scrubbed floor, I developed a healthy disinterest in what I had published.

I felt no loyalty to what I had said and how I had said it. When I learned how to write a story the way the editor wanted it, I experienced a playful desire to unlearn it, to see if I could do it differently.

I kept saying I wonder what would happen if …

And today each draft is an experiment. I try short leads and long leads, telling the story all in dialogue or with no dialogue, starting at the end and moving backward, using a voice that I have not tried before, making up words when the dictionary fails.

I sought mentors, asking people at other desks how they were able to write a story I admired. I asked the best reporters if I could go along on my own as they reported a story. They were surprised and said yes; but when the union got wind of it, I was told to knock it off.

I looked at the assignment book and freelanced stories that were not scheduled to be covered. I tried features on my own and surprised editors with stories they did not expect — and often did not want.

I wrote weddings and fashions for a suburban weekly, volunteered to review books, freelanced on Saturday for the sports department, took graduate writing courses at Boston University and wrote stories so experimental I could not even figure out what they meant.

I drove Eddie Devin, the best editor on the city desk, home at 1 a.m., put a fifth of whiskey on the kitchen table, handed him a week’s carbons of my stories, and was taught how I could improve.

I read compulsively to see what others writers can do and I still do today; I hunted down craft interviews such as the Paris Review Writers at Work series and copied down the lessons I learned about my craft, and I still do that today…

I wish you a craft you can never learn — but can keep learning as long as you live.

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