December 3, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school 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… read more
October 15, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Doris Lessing correspondence deepens insight into The Grass is Singing “Have you had a look in the Knopf collection?” Rick Watson, the head of reference services at the Ransom Center, sounded casual, and I wasn’t sure I had time to take the detour he was suggesting. I spent a month at the Ransom Center last year, working mainly with the… read more
July 9, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Authors find important insights in Graham Greene material Dr. Jon Wise, an independent researcher and writer, visited the Harry Ransom Center in October 2014 to research the Graham Greene collection with Mike Hill, a retired school teacher and current editor of A Sort of Newsletter, the quarterly journal of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust. Wise and Hill previously
