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How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

April 4, 2017 - Christine Lee

Gotham Book Mart photograph of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, from the Tennessee Williams literary file.

“It has been said that loneliness is the great American malady. What is the nature of this loneliness? It would seem essentially to be a quest for identity.”—Carson McCullers’s essay “The Nature of Loneliness”

[Read more…] about How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: book club, Carson McCullers, Christine Lee, collections, Lisa Pulsifer, literature, manuscript, member, Membership, novels, Tennessee Williams, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

February 27, 2017 - Ryan Blake

The author and his wife selecting the artwork for the cover of Crónica de una muerte anunciada; photographer and date unknown.

In August 2016, I joined the Ransom Center as a graduate student assistant from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information to digitize the Gabriel García Márquez papers. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, author, Bill Clinton, Books, Carlos Slim, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Colombia, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital archive, digitization, family photographs, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, GRA, grant, literature, Manuscripts, photo album, photographs, Ryan Blake, scrapbooks, Shakira, Sharing Gabo with the World

Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

December 1, 2016 - Amy Brown

Rapi Diego's "El sapo hechizado" (1997). Photos by Pete Smith.

I have always loved to catalog presentation copies of books—those given as a gift from one person to another, usually with a signature or inscription. They represent a tiny piece of the people involved, and allow me to feel a connection to some of my favorite authors. Gabriel García Márquez’s library was no exception. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s republic of letters

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging Tagged With: Alvaro Mutis, Amy Brown, Authors, Carlos Fuentes, catalog, El Sapo Hechizado, Eliseo Diego, Evidence, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez presentation library, La Historia Me Absolverá, Latin America, literature, Orhan Pamuk, presentation book, presentation copy, presentation library, Richard Avedon, The Museum of Innocence

Of grieving and goshawks: An interview with H is for Hawk’s Helen Macdonald

March 25, 2016 - Reid Echols

Self-portrait painted by T. H. White (1955). Several of White's other paintings are housed in the Ransom Center's art collections.

Helen Macdonald is the author of H is for Hawk (Grove Atlantic), out this month in paperback. H is for Hawk landed on more than 25 book of the year lists and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Macdonald, a falconer and naturalist, writes about training a goshawk as a challenge to [Read more…] about Of grieving and goshawks: An interview with H is for Hawk’s Helen Macdonald

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: England, falconer, H is for Hawk, hawk, Helen Macdonald, literature, naturalist, T. H. White, The Goshawk

African American artists and writers in the Limited Editions Club

March 16, 2016 - Peter Mears

Dean Mitchell (b. 1957). Illustration for Maya Angelou's "Music, Deep Rivers in my Soul" (2003). Copyright Dean Mitchell.

The stories I selected span three decades and show (Zora Neal) Hurston’s diversity in writing styles and subject matter. I created my illustrations from fragments of fabric, paper and faded photos. The layering of images, patterns and textures evoke the feeling of memory and old tales retold. So they become, like the stories, “Bookmarks in the Pages of Life.”—Betye Saar, artist’s afterword to Bookmarks in the Pages of Life [Read more…] about African American artists and writers in the Limited Editions Club

Filed Under: Art, Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: African-American, artists, Authors, Benny Andrews, Betye Saar, Dean Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, George Macy, illustrators, Jacob Lawrence, Jazz, Limited Editions Club, literature, Maya Angelou, poetry, Richard Wright, Romare Bearden, serigraph, Sid Shiff, silkscreen

Fellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school

December 3, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Scott aged 16, perhaps dressed as a French musketeer to please her mother, who, Scott said, "stoutly maintained the Huguenot tradition in our family." Nevertheless, Scott frequently played the man in dressing-up games with her cousins.

Dr. Niall Munro, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, was a fellow at the Ransom Center during the summer of 2015. His research was supported by the Fred W. Todd Southern Literature Endowment Fund. Munro is at work on a book entitled “Our only ‘felt’ history”: American modernism and the Civil War. While at the Ransom Center, Munro accessed the collections of Evelyn Scott and Stark Young. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: American modernism, Civil War, Evelyn Scott, Fellows Find, literature, novel, Southern literature, Stark Young, William Faulkner

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