Collection Guide
This document describes a Manuscript
Collection or
held by the
University of Iowa Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Guide Contents
Biographical and Historical Information
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Administrative Information
Access
and Restrictions:
Biographical Note
Iowa author LeAnn Lemberger was born in 1954 and raised on a farm in Guthrie County. She earned her B.A. from Drake University, where, as a journalism student, she received both the Robert Bliss Award and William Randolph Hearst Award.
In 1981, Harlequin
published her first romance novel, The Grand Hotel. She writes using
the name Leigh Michaels, a combination of her own name and that of her
husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances
each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author.
Her works have been translated into twenty-four languages and are sold
in 120 countries. Most of her novels are set in the Midwest and LeAnn Lemberger
still lives and writes in Ottumwa, Iowa. During the summer she teaches
for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City. She has also written
a text book and a self-help guide for students of creative writing.
Scope
and Contents
The papers of LeAnn Lemberger date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels, such as The Best Made Plans, Family Secrets, and Traveling Man. Also included are articles by and about the author, copies of her newsletter Leigh Michaels Update, and teaching packets used for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
Where material has come to us in scrapbooks, these scrapbooks have been disbound and the material distributed into folders.
Beginning with the 2001addendum,
all duplicate copies and foreign language editions of Lemberger's books
will be included in this manuscript collection. Previously, these volumes
had been cataloged and shelved in the Iowa Authors Collection in Special
Collections.
Audio
Material:
Acquisition and Processing Information
These
papers are being given
to the University of Iowa Libraries by
Guide posted to Internet:
Addenda:
Related Materials
See Leigh Micheals' web site at http://home.mchsi.com/~leighmichaels/
LeAnn's husband Michael has a very successful career as a photographer. He spent seventeen years as a news photographer, and is also a teacher of photography as well as an artist (pen and ink and computer graphics) and archivist. If you are interested in Micheal's photography and art, please visit his web site at http://home.mchsi.com/~mlemberger/
Box A1
Articles about Lemberger
Series III: Miscellaneous, Newsletters, Photographs, Publicity
Box S1
