President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, having been assassinated at Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
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Rachel Cusk’s papers acquired
The papers of acclaimed author Rachel Cusk (b. 1967) have been acquired by the Ransom Center.
The Weather of Domestic Life
The Ransom Center acquires the papers of Rachel Cusk. Below, Cusk describes her writing process. When I was writing my first novel I frequently dreamed that the house I was living in was on fire and that I was unable to rescue the manuscript. I took this same manuscript with… read more