September 1, 2007, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRecent Bernard Malamud biography draws on Ransom Center materials Oxford University Press has published a new biography of Jewish American writer Bernard Malamud. It is the first major biography of Malamud to date. The book, written by Liverpool University Professor of English Philip Davis, is titled Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life. The Harry Ransom Center holds a substantial part… read more
August 1, 2007, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsInsider’s Perspective: The Hip and the Square In the fall 2006 exhibition Norman Mailer Takes on America, visitors were asked to record their thoughts on three different topics that Norman Mailer had responded to over the course of his writing career. Composition notebooks and pencils were provided for visitor response, and the notebooks have become part of… read more
July 1, 2007, Filed Under: Research + TeachingContents of a Country: Leicester Hemingway’s Republic of New Atlantis Leicester (pronounced “Lester”) Hemingway is known to history principally for three things: For being the younger brother of the famous novelist Ernest Hemingway, to whom he bore a striking physical resemblance; for publishing a well-received biography of his brother a mere eight months after Ernest died; and for “founding” his… read more
