April 22, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingCorporal Dashiell Hammett’s "The Battle of the Aleutians: A Graphic History, 1942–1943" A few weeks ago, the Ransom Center received as a gift an unusual volume to add to our holdings of hard-boiled detective writer Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961). Kevin Berger, a journalist from New York, donated this booklet, which Hammett wrote for the U.S. military while he was stationed in the Aleutian… read more
April 20, 2010, Filed Under: AuthorsWriter Angella Nazarian discusses her memoir Tonight, writer Angella Nazarian reads from Life as a Visitor, her account of fleeing Iran with her family and life as an immigrant caught between two cultures. This event, which is co-sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, will be webcast live.… read more
April 14, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingJim Crace papers now open for research The papers of British writer Jim Crace, author of acclaimed works Continent (1986), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), and The Pesthouse (2007), are now open at the Ransom Center. A finding aid of the collection can be accessed online. The Center acquired Crace’s archive in 2008. The collection… read more
