Sylvia Heller Gurian papers

This collection was created by Sylvia Heller Gurian, Joseph Heller's sister, and consists primarily of clippings, interviews and profiles, and reviews realted to Joseph Heller's career. In the mid-1990s, as Heller was writing his memoir of growing up in Brooklyn and his early life, Now and Then (1998), he sent draft chapters to Sylvia for comment and correction. These form the second major grouping in the collection, along with two folders of Heller family photographs, primarily of Joseph Heller. This collection also includes a typescript of Erica Heller's unpublished second novel Blink of an Eye (1993). Erica Heller, Joseph Heller's daughter, published her first novel, Splinters (William Morrow) in 1990.