by ESTER HARRISON This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. In 2018, a committee of staff members at the Harry Ransom Center began the process of updating the Center’s deaccession policy and procedures: a standard document… read more
collections
How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“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”
What’s in the PEN archives?
The PEN records occupy 180 linear feet, span 1912 to 2008, and document the history and activities of the English PEN and PEN International, as well as the formation (and sometimes dissolution) of other PEN centers around the globe.