September 3, 2013, Filed Under: Research + TeachingApplication process open for Ransom Center’s fellowships The Harry Ransom Center invites applications for its 2014–2015 research fellowships in the humanities. Information about the fellowships and the application process is available online. The deadline for applications, which must be submitted through the Ransom Center’s website, is January 31, 2014, at 5 p.m. CST. More than 50 fellowships… read more
August 28, 2013, Filed Under: AuthorsNovelist, poet, and essayist Julia Alvarez’s archive acquired The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Julia Alvarez (b. 1950). Alvarez’s extensive archive consists of manuscripts, correspondence, journals, and professional files. The manuscripts span her writing career and include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, and unpublished works, often in multiple drafts. Alvarez regularly… read more
August 22, 2013, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsBook annotations document scuffle between Ernest Hemingway and Max Eastman Ernest Hemingway, on his way to cover the civil war in Spain, stops in New York for a couple of days and drops in at Charles Scribner’s Sons publishing house. He wants to touch base with editor Max Perkins. Hemingway’s arrival is unannounced, and another writer, Max Eastman, is in… read more
August 20, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingFellow discusses work with Henry James’s letters Peter A. Walker, a Harry Ransom Center fellow from Salem State University, discusses his research in the Henry James collection. As co-general editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James, Walker focused on the approximately 500 James letters that reside in the Ransom Center. Walker’s research allowed him to trace… read more
August 12, 2013, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingCollection of Materials by Robert E. Howard, Creator of Conan the Barbarian, is Donated to Ransom Center The Ransom Center has received a gift of materials related to writer Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), a prominent and prolific writer in the fantasy genre. Though Howard is perhaps best known for creating the character Conan the Barbarian, he wrote more than 100 stories for pulp magazines of his day,… read more
August 7, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsTim O’Brien becomes first fiction writer to win Pritzker Award Novelist Tim O’Brien has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, marking the first time a fiction writer has won the $100,000 prize. O’Brien, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, is the author of such works as The Things They Carried… read more
