November 26, 2013, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsRecently acquired Nancy Cunard typescript documents a dreamy connection to poet John Keats On December 31, 1956, writer and political activist Nancy Cunard visited the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. She went there to contribute an account of one of her earliest, most intimate experiences as a young writer and to memorialize her connection with one of the most important figures of the Romantic… read more
November 25, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, PhotographyTed Spagna’s photography featured in new book, “SLEEP” In 1975, photographer Ted Spagna (1943–1989) began his career-defining project that would revolutionize the artistic interpretation and even scientific understanding of sleep. Using a time-lapse camera, Spagna photographed a variety of sleeping subjects for an entire night. The results, now known as “sleep portraiture,” provided a unique bird’s eye perspective… read more
November 22, 2013, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsNotes in Norman Mailer archive shed light on Lee Harvey Oswald The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas shook America’s understanding of trust, security, and rational behavior. In the five decades following, a multitude of historians and writers have been moved to study the event, many with particular interest in the assassin himself, Lee… read more
November 21, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyEditor of “Reading Magnum” explores Magnum Photos collection Steven Hoelscher, editor of Reading Magnum: A Visual Archive of the Modern World, will discuss the book at The Contemporary Austin tonight in an event hosted by Austin Center for Photography, University of Texas Press, and The Contemporary. The arrival in December 2009 of some 200,000 press prints from… read more
November 20, 2013, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsRansom Center partners with Texas Exes on World War I-themed anniversary tour 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, a watershed event that claimed millions of lives and changed the course of the twentieth century. The Ransom Center’s exhibit The World at War, 1914–1918 will illuminate the lived experience of the world’s first global war,… read more
November 19, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsTwo Ransom Center archives illuminate Doris Lessing’s life, work, and relationships Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing died on Sunday at the age of 94. She was born in what is now Iran, grew up on a farm in Zimbabwe, lived briefly in a boarding house in South Africa, and settled as an adult in London. She was deeply influenced by the racial… read more
