Kameron Hurley papers

Collection

Identifier: SCA-RBSC-SFWA-080

Staff Only

Content Description

The Kameron Hurley papers contains personal papers and authorial papers, including hand written drafts, early typescripts, correspondence, and ephemera. Series I, Juvenilia, chronicles Hurley's early writing and fantasy world building. Of interest is Hurley's character development as she created characters in her fantasy worlds based on her classmates. Many of her classmates shared Hurley's manuscripts among their group to follow their characters'... arcs. As a young writer, Hurley was in the habit of typing her handwritten novels and detributing them to friends. The typescripts in Sub-Series B are examples of these novels. Sub-Series A includes extensive research notes and evidence of fantasy languages, such as alphabets and dictionaries, created by Hurley. Her future published works show influences drawn from her juvenilia including character names, worlds, and flora/fauna.

Series II groups Hurley's authorial papers. These drafts, typescripts, and correspondence were created during Hurley's early professional writing career. Within the series, researchers will find papers pertaining to Hurley's first published novel, God's War, and unrealized plans for an earlier novel, Dragon's Wall.

Series III contains personal materials such as unbound scrapbook pages, photographs, and memorabilia collected during Hurley's various travels around the world.

Series IV is closed to research until 2064 per Kameron Hurley's request.

Dates

Creation: circa 1987-2011

Creator

Hurley, Kameron (Author, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research under the terms of the NIU Special Collections and Archives. Photographs and photocopies of collection are prohibited.

Restrictions, where applicable, are noted at the series or item level.

Conditions Governing Use

Property Rights are transferred to the University Libraries per the signed Deed of Gift Document. Literary Rights are retained by the content creator. Any copyrights so stated in the materials remain in force.

Biographical Note

Kameron Hurley was born in 1980 in Battle Ground WA. Hurley received a bacherlor's in historical studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a master’s from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, specializing in the history of South African resistance movements. Hurley's master’s thesis, "The Voice of Women?: The ANC and the Rhetoric of Women's Resistance, 1976-1989," explored the African National Congress’s use of propaganda... in the recruitment of women fighters in the struggle against Apartheid.

Hurley began writing copy for a financial services company, later moved into marketing copy, then became senior copywriter at a software company before dedicating her time to her science fiction writing. She started publishing short fiction in 1998 and attended the Clarion West workshop in 2000. Hurley published her first novel, God's War in 2011.

Extent

12.21 Linear Feet (2 record boxes; 9 document boxes; 5 artifact boxes; 1 tube roll.)

Language of Materials

English

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Additional Description

Arrangement

Collection arranged into 4 series and 2 subseries.

Series I: Juvenilia
Sub-Series A: Research and story notes
Sub-Series B: Typescripts
Series II: Authorial papers
Series III: Personal papers
Series IV: Restricted

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Kameron Hurley on July 7, 2015.

Separated Materials

Books included in the Hurley donation were individually catalogued in the Science Fiction Writers of America collection. These items can be found in the NIU Libraries catalog, link here.