April 26, 2010, Filed Under: Meet the StaffRansom Center Director Staley announces retirement plans Thomas F. Staley, director of the Harry Ransom Center for the last 22 years, will retire August 31, 2011. During his tenure, Staley has raised more than $100 million in donations and collection materials, expanded the Center’s holdings substantially, increased awareness of the collections, and focused on making them more… read more
April 20, 2010, Filed Under: AuthorsWriter Angella Nazarian discusses her memoir Tonight, writer Angella Nazarian reads from Life as a Visitor, her account of fleeing Iran with her family and life as an immigrant caught between two cultures. This event, which is co-sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, will be webcast live.… read more
April 14, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingJim Crace papers now open for research The papers of British writer Jim Crace, author of acclaimed works Continent (1986), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), and The Pesthouse (2007), are now open at the Ransom Center. A finding aid of the collection can be accessed online. The Center acquired Crace’s archive in 2008. The collection… read more
