April 12, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsThe Paris Review celebrates James Salter Month James Salter is being honored later this month with The Paris Review’s Hadada Prize, which is awarded annually to a “distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to literature.” The award will be presented to Salter by Robert Redford, who, in an unrelated… read more
April 8, 2011, Filed Under: UncategorizedPreview archive materials related to Wallace’s posthumous novel “The Pale King” Archive materials relating to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King is now available on the Ransom Center’s website. The preview, a collaboration between the Center and publisher Little, Brown and Company, includes a series of drafts of the “Author’s Foreword,” which eventually became chapter nine of The Pale… read more
April 5, 2011, Filed Under: Digital CollectionsFinal report published as part of Mellon-funded project on computer forensics and born-digital cultural heritage Computer storage media have begun to arrive in archival collections with increasing frequency over the last 20 years. Approximately 50 of the Ransom Center’s holdings contain floppy disks, CDs, or personal computers. Faced with the daunting task of capturing files from these media and making them available to researchers, archivists… read more
March 31, 2011, Filed Under: AuthorsWhat’s in your desk? In 2008, John Fowles’s widow shipped to the Ransom Center 90 boxes of the writer’s manuscripts, books, and personal effects to be added to the author’s extensive papers, the bulk of which were acquired in 1991. Among the items received was Fowles’s writing desk, complete with its contents. On March… read more
March 30, 2011, Filed Under: ArtBust documents creative process for sculpture of W. E. B. DuBois A plaster maquette of a bust of W. E. B. DuBois has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center. The bust, which was sculpted by Walker Hancock (1901–1998), documents a step in the creative process for the final marble sculpture, which resides in Memorial Hall at Harvard University. A plaster… read more
March 29, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Not "The Well": Radclyffe Hall’s Unpublished Short Fiction Dr. Jana Funke, Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, U.K., visited the Ransom Center on a Hobby Family Foundation Fellowship in July and August 2010 to work on Radclyffe Hall’s short fiction. She is using the material she gathered for a monograph exploring the relationship between modernist sexualities… read more
