
Archives

With over 25 years of experience, I work diligently to match sellers with the right acquiring institution. In the most successful transactions the seller feels amply compensated both financially and in peace of mind, and the buyer is excited to get to work processing and sharing their new acquisition.
I have placed prominent literary and cultural archives with private and institutional clients across the United States, working soup-to-nuts from description and valuation to buyer identification, contract negotiation, and placement.
While taking pride in all of my archive placements, I am mindful of the historical gender gap in purchase prices and therefore I am especially proud of the sums I have realized for the archives of women.

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Bruce McCall
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Gorge Saunders
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Isabel Allende

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The James Joyce Collection of Ronald L. Dzierbicki
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Urvashi Vaid
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Alison Leslie Gold - Anne Frank and Literary Material

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Significant Anne Frank Material
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Chris Cerf
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Ernest Hemingway to Lillian Ross

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Peter Benjaminson’s Motown

Placed by Funke Literary
Ann Petry
Cormac McCarthy
(juvenilia, late manuscripts, and correspondence)
Placed
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Free to Be You and Me


Roz Chast
Samuel Beckett - Larry Shainberg Correspondence
Tim O'Brien - Correspondence Archive

Placed
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Typewriters of Lillian
Ross and William Shawn
Placed
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WS Merwin - The Conservancy Archive

Selected catalogues
Prior to founding Funke Literary, I spent over a decade crafting the catalogues of dozens of remarkable archives in support of their successful placement. I share a selected few of these below.
Processed for Placement
Stuart Rose Library,
Emory University
Alice Walker
Processed for Placement
UT San Marcos ›
Cormac McCarthy
Processed for Placement
The Harry Ransom Center,
UT Austin ›
David Foster Wallace

Processed for Placement
The Harry Ransom Center,
UT Austin ›
David Mamet
Processed for Placement
The Harry Ransom Center,
UT Austin ›
Don DeLillo
Processed for Placement
The Columbia University Libraries,
New York ›
Erica Jong

Processed for Placement
Private
Hunter S. Thompson
Processed for Placement
The Harry Ransom Center,
UT Austin ›
James Salter
Processed for Placement
The Harry Ransom Center,
UT Austin
Julia Alvarez

Processed for Placement
Beinecke Library,
Yale University ›
Marilynne Robinson
Processed for Placement
The Harry Ransom Center,
UT Austin ›
Stella Adler
Processed for Placement
NYPL
Timothy Leary

Processed for Placement
NYPL ›
Tom Wolfe