The sub-series provides information on non fiction books written by Mark Abley from 1986 to 2023, starting with Abley’s first book, Beyond Forget : Rediscovering the Prairies, which was published in 1986. There followed Spoken Here : Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003), which had been translated into several languages, The Prodigal Tongue (2008), and Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott (2013). In 2019, Abley’s memoir of his father, The Organist : Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind, was published. In his latest book, Strange Bewildering Time : Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail (2023), Abley is looking back on his travel through Asia in 1978. The sub-series also includes reviews, translations, material related to essays published in anthologies, and proposals of unpublished books.
The sub-series includes travel journals, a biography, a grant application, a CV, book excerpts, business cards, agreements, mock-up covers, comments, a directory, drafts, essays, an invitation, publicity material, newspaper articles, notes, correspondence, publications, a newsletter, permissions, reference documentation, poems, a poster, proposals, research material, reviews, sales reports, conference reports, a score, scripts, a film proposal, a speech, and a work plan.