September 28, 2010, Filed Under: AuthorsDon DeLillo and David Mamet honored by PEN Two writers whose archives reside at the Ransom Center received 2010 PEN Literary Awards. Novelist Don DeLillo received the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He is the author of 15 novels, 4 plays, and a number of short stories and essays. The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for… read more
September 14, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingDavid Foster Wallace’s library: Dog ears, coffee rings, duct tape, and heavy markings Jacqueline Muñoz, librarian at the Ransom Center, cataloged more than 300 books from David Foster Wallace’s archive. Here, she writes about her experience working with the collection and her personal response to Wallace’s work. I didn’t think much of Infinite Jest in the beginning. My impression of David Foster Wallace’s… read more
September 13, 2010, Filed Under: AuthorsWriter Wilson Harris knighted United Kingdom–based Guyanese writer Wilson Harris, whose papers reside at the Ransom Center, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He is the author of the works Fetish (1951), Eternity to Season (1954), Palace of the Peacock (1969), and The Ghost of Memory (2006). Harris, born in 1921, was influenced… read more
