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
July 9, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsMichael Ondaatje’s The English Patient wins the Golden Man Booker Prize Congratulations to Michael Ondaatje, whose 1992 novel The English Patient was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize on Sunday, July 8. Ondaatje’s archive was recently acquired by the Harry Ransom Center and contains extensive materials relating to the award-winning novel.
May 7, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingScholarship, time machines, and madness by Beth Burns, Hidden Room Theatre Artistic Director John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook for Richard III “Ready trumpet. Boy ready with armor. Take time. More piano. Long flourish continued till discovery, next Sc. – and do not W Till Mr Booth is on stage.”
