Full Finding Aid

Title:	Chip Brown collection on "Good Morning Midnight-Life and Death in the Wild"
Call Number:	Rauner Manuscript MS-1349
Collection Dates:	1994-2005
Size of Collection:	2.5 linear ft., 2 boxes
Abstract:	Chip Brown, freelance writer. The collection contains his research material and drafts for his book on climber Guy Waterman, including correspondence with Laura Waterman, Guy's widow.
Access to Collection:	Unrestricted

Use & Access

The materials represented in this guide may be accessed through the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College. Rauner Library is located in Webster Hall. The materials must be used on-site and may not leave Rauner Library.

Rauner Special Collections Library is open to the public and in most cases no appointment is necessary. The exception is in the case of materials stored off site for which there may be a delay of up to 48 hours in retrieval. Please consult the Access to Collection statement below or contact Rauner Reference.

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Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Conditions Governing Use

Permission from donor needed to quote letters

Introduction to the Collection

The collection contains notes, typescript drafts, research material, photocopies of correspondence and photographs, correspondence with Laura Waterman, magazines and other publications related to Chip Brown's book "Good Morning Midnight-Life and Death in the Wild," his biography of Guy Waterman.

Biography

Chip Brown was born in New York City but grew up in Connecticut. He graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst in 1976. In 1977 he was employed as a writer in Washington D.C. for the "Living Wilderness" magazine, then moved to Alaska where he worked as the managing editor of the "Homer Alaska News" from 1978 to 1979. From 1979 to 1985 he was a staff writer with the Washington Post. In 1985 he moved to New York, and began a magazine freelance career. He has written for over thirty national magazines, among them the "New York Times Magazine," "The New Yorker," "Harper's," "Outside," "Vanity Fair," "Men's Journal," "Vogue," "GQ," "Conde Nast Traveler" and "National Geographic Adventure."

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