April 4, 2017, Filed Under: Meet the StaffMeet the Staff: Q&A with Director of Development Margie Rine Since coming to the Ransom Center in 2008, Margie Rine has significantly contributed to the Center’s development efforts.
April 4, 2017, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsHow a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter “It has been said that loneliness is the great American malady. What is the nature of this loneliness? It would seem essentially to be a quest for identity.”—Carson McCullers’s essay “The Nature of Loneliness”
March 29, 2017, Filed Under: Research + TeachingNEH Grant Supports Ransom Center’s ‘Writers Without Borders’ Project The Harry Ransom Center has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a two-year, $195,000 project to arrange, describe, selectively digitize, and share its PEN records. The Ransom Center holds the archives of PEN International and English PEN, who share the mission of promoting… read more
March 27, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingWhat’s in the PEN archives? The PEN records occupy 180 linear feet, span 1912 to 2008, and document the history and activities of the English PEN and PEN International, as well as the formation (and sometimes dissolution) of other PEN centers around the globe.
March 27, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingWriters without borders: The power of PEN The story of twentieth-century political activism, persecution, and creative expression cannot be fully understood without exploring the rich materials in the PEN records at the Harry Ransom Center.
March 27, 2017, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsThis reminds me of a song… The Harry Ransom Center holds a wide variety of materials, from Robert De Niro’s Taxi Driver script and costume to Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves. These and many other items are on display in our current exhibition Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center. The stories told in… read more
