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 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
July 25, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsDramaturg uses archival materials to edit new version of Tennessee Williams play for production at The Old Vic Dramaturg James Graham admits he had barely heard of Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth before starting work on the play. Alongside Williams’s other works—including Pulitzer Prize winners A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof—the difficult script often fades into the background. This summer The Old… read more
