Matthew Wolfe Writings, 1970-1988
Collection Number: 7322

The collection consists of sixteen prose fiction manuscripts, most of which are plastic-ring-bindered photocopies and some of which are bound original typescripts. They are self-published under the imprint Crow n' Co. The works "coming home" and "conetree" were completed following Wolfe's AIDS diagnosis. The prose is grammatically and orthographically idiomatic; the stories are non-narrative; the themes and motifs tend toward the introspective, free-form aesthetic and stream-of-consciousness, and artistically impressionistic. Gay themes are not immediately evident.

Matthew Wolfe Writings, #7322. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Writer who lived in Boston and supported himself working for financial management firms. He studied at the University of Paris and the University of Strasbourg in the early 1970s. He completed sixteen manuscripts, the last two -- "coming home" and "conetree" -- written since his diagnosis with AIDS. He died on September 3, 1988.