October 23, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts“The Attempt to Keep Day and Night Together” An interview with Dean F. Echenberg on his war poetry collection The Ransom Center is the new home for the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, a collection of more than 6,500 volumes of poetry related to people’s experiences with war. The collection was begun in the early 1970s by… read more
October 18, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Meet the StaffNew Curator of Art appointed The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has appointed a new curator of art who will focus on improving the Ransom Center’s ability to support students, scholars and the public through the interpretation of its rich art holdings.
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: AuthorsArchive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired The archive of award-winning author Michael Ondaatje has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center. Ondaatje, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “The English Patient,” is widely regarded as one of the finest English-language novelists writing today.
