March 21, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingNew book explores origins of Watergate’s Deep Throat Author and journalist Max Holland accessed the Ransom Center’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Watergate Papers while researching his book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, 2012), which is now available. Holland describes his work at the Center: The genesis of Leak: Why Mark Felt… read more
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
March 15, 2012, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingErrol Morris book highlights photos from Ransom Center’s collections Writer and filmmaker Errol Morris, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, an Emmy, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival, drew on the Ransom Center’s photography collections for his most recent book, Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, published by Penguin in… read more
March 13, 2012, Filed Under: Art, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsIn the galleries: Jacob Lawrence’s "Eight Studies for The Book of Genesis" Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) received his early education as an artist in Harlem. By the time he was in his twenties, he had received national recognition for his work, notably “The Migration Series,” about the African-American migration from the South to the North following World War I. Lawrence spent most of… read more
