March 8, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts"The archives are a window into his mind" Bonnie Nadell, longtime literary agent of David Foster Wallace, shares her thoughts on what scholars can learn from Wallace’s archive about his creative process: Organizing David Wallace’s papers for an archive was not a task I would wish on many people. Some writers leave their papers organized, boxed, and with… read more
March 8, 2010, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsInfinite Possibilities: A first glimpse into David Foster Wallace’s library Approximately 200 books from David Foster Wallace’s library arrived at the Ransom Center with his papers. When the staff unpacked the collection to check its condition, we could see immediately that the library was not simply a supplement to the archive but an essential part of it. Wallace annotated many… read more
February 18, 2010, Filed Under: Art, Books + ManuscriptsThe "curiously" illustrated Moll Pitcher The Bieber collection’s copy of John Greenleaf Whittier’s Moll Pitcher, a poem, is an 1832 first edition. In the poem, Whittier presents an unflattering fictional account of the exploits of Moll Pitcher (1736–1813), who amassed both fame and income through her work as a fortune-teller in Lynn, Mass. (Moll Pitcher… read more
