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About Megan Barnard

As Associate Director for Administration and Curatorial Affairs, Barnard manages the acquisition of collection materials and provides support and guidance for the Center’s curators and for a variety of activities relating to the administration of the Ransom Center.

Archive charts Lisa Alther’s extensive literary career

May 9, 2022 - Megan Barnard

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First page of an edited draft of Lisa Alther’s Kinflicks, ca. 1975. Lisa Alther Papers. Harry Ransom Center.

The Ransom Center is now home to the papers of bestselling American writer Lisa Alther (b. 1944), whose works frequently explore cultural stereotypes—particularly those relating to women—with wit and humor.

Alther is the author of 12 books, including her first published novel, Kinflicks (1976), an acclaimed, feminist coming-of-age story. Writing of Alther’s debut in Harper’s, Alice Adams noted, “This book is so continuously funny that its wisdom takes you by surprise… we are in the presence of a most powerful and remarkable talent.”

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Archive of poet John Balaban acquired by the Ransom Center

April 26, 2022 - Megan Barnard

John Balaban award ceremony

John Balaban being honored by the Ministry of Culture of Vietnam, 2008. John Balaban Papers. Harry Ransom Center.

The Ransom Center has acquired the papers of poet, author, and translator John Balaban (b. 1943). Balaban is the author of 13 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. His poetry collections After Our War (1974) and Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New & Selected Poems (1997) were both finalists for the National Book Award. He has received The Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award, a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a National Poetry Series selection, and a Guggenheim fellowship, among other honors.

Poet Maxine Kumin noted, “Balaban seems to me to be our moral spokesperson, our lyricist, polemicist, exhorter, and consoler: in short, the poet we need.”

Balaban’s papers include manuscripts of his poetry, fiction, translations, and literary non-fiction; correspondence with fellow writers such as John Barth, Philip Caputo, Gloria Emerson, Seamus Heaney, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, William Meredith, W. S. Merwin, James Michener, and John Updike; photographs; and other materials that document his literary career.

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The Writer on Her Work: An Interview with Janet Sternburg

October 18, 2021 - Megan Barnard

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Forty years after the publication of her groundbreaking book, The Writer on Her Work (1980), author and photographer Janet Sternburg donated her papers relating to the book and its follow-up volume, The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991), to the Ransom Center. [Read more…] about The Writer on Her Work: An Interview with Janet Sternburg

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