March 20, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753–1784) was born in Africa and sold into slavery. At the age of seven or eight she was purchased by a Boston tailor, John Wheatley, for his wife. While in the Wheatley household, Wheatley learned to read and write. Within 16 months of her arrival, Wheatley said… read more
March 19, 2012, Filed Under: AuthorsT. C. Boyle visits Ransom Center before tonight’s event at BookPeople Writer T. C. Boyle, whose archive was recently acquired by the Ransom Center, visited today while in Austin for a book tour stop promoting the paperback edition of his novel When the Killing’s Done.
March 19, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsJames Shapiro "unravels" Shakespeare’s life James Shapiro, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, speaks Thursday night at the Ransom Center about Shakespeare’s “life” as currently written. Shapiro specializes in Shakespeare and Elizabethan culture and is the author of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare and 1599: A Year in the Life of… read more
