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Patrick Hicks Writings

An inventory of his papers in the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at Syracuse University


Finding aid created by: Cara A. Howe
Date: 2011



Biography

Patrick Hicks

Patrick Hicks is a writer-in-residence at Augustana College and currently lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Hicks has published multiple poetry chapter books including Traveling Through History (2005), Draglines (2006), The Kiss That Saved My Life (2007), This London (2008), and the paperback collection The Gossamer. He is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and has been the recipient of several writing grants. Hicks was also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He has just completed his first novel, which is about Auschwitz.


Scope and Content Note

The Patrick Hicks Writings consist of two pieces written by Hicks. One is his short story "57 Gatwick," which was published in Glimmer Train issue 72. The other is an article he wrote for The Writer titled "A Tragedy Transformed: How a Writer Turned the Pan Am 103 Disaster into an Award-Winning Short Story".


Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

There are no access restrictions for this collection.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from the Pan Am Flight 103 Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.


Selected Search Terms

Names

Hicks, Patrick.

Associated Titles

57 Gatwick.

Subjects

Grief.
Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988.
Plane crashes.

Types of Material

Articles.
Short stories.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Patrick Hicks Writings,
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gift of Patrick Hicks in 2009.

Processing Information

The Patrick Hicks Writings are processed.


Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically.


Table of Contents

Writings


Inventory