December 6, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1A Rare Gift: First-edition Principia highlights extraordinary collection The Ransom Center recently received a generous donation from the James M. Vaughn, Jr., Vaughn Foundation Fund of important books in the history of mathematics. The earliest volumes supplement the Center’s existing strength in early materials on the history of science and mathematics, and others productively expand the range of… read more
November 26, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1ASCENT TO GLORY: The Writer and the Manuscript Excerpt from Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (New York, Columbia University Press, 2020) by Álvaro Santana-Acuña, guest curator for the Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer exhibition on view through Jan. 2, 2022 in the galleries. Used… read more
October 18, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1The Writer on Her Work: An Interview with Janet Sternburg Forty years after the publication of her groundbreaking book, The Writer on Her Work (1980), author and photographer Janet Sternburg donated her papers relating to the book and its follow-up volume, The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991), to the Ransom Center.
