'A Grain of Wheat'

Typescript, photocopy, and corrected copy of book.


Date(s) of creation: c 1967
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

Reference number: MS 337272
Summary: Typescript, photocopy, and corrected copy of book.
Main author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (b 1938); Kenyan writer
Note: Part of the Heinemann Educational Books Ltd Collection of manuscripts, typescripts, and proof copies of prose-fiction and non-fiction published by Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. The collections includes manuscripts and typescripts from the Heinemann African Writers Series; Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series; Heinemann Studies in African Literature series; Heinemann Secondary Readers series; and miscellaneous other Heinemann works relating to Africa. The largest part of the Collection was presented to SOAS Library by the publishers Heinemann Educational Books in the 1970s and 1980s; a smaller number of works were donated or deposited directly by the authors; a few works were purchased.
Acquisition: Acquired by SOAS Library from Ngugi wa Thiong'o on 10th December 1975.
Access status: Open
User restrictions: No copying permitted.
Language: English
Related material: The company archive of Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1946-80, is held at The Archive of British Publishing and Printing, Special Collections, University of Reading. These records include correspondence between the publisher and the writers, and reviewers' reports on manuscripts.
Publications: Published work: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 36
Format: Archive