September 10, 2018, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsNotebooks illuminate creative process behind Billy Collins’s poem “The Names” This story originally appeared January 21, 2014. Among the papers in the recently acquired Billy Collins archive are materials related to his poem “The Names,” which was written to commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Interspersed throughout the poem are the names of 26 victims of the… read more
October 5, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingPublic has access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds the archive of novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2017.
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsA nomad’s writing finds a home Q&A with Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje began his career as a poet but is best known as the author of the 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient, which was made into a critically-acclaimed motion picture. He was born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1943; he moved to Canada… read more
