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Harry Ransom Lecture

September 8, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events

Booker Prize–winning novelist Marlon James to speak

Marlon James. Photo by Jeffrey Skemp.

The Ransom Center presents novelist Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings.

March 28, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events

Q&A With Julia Alvarez

Photo of Julia Alvarez by Bill Eichner.

Acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Julia Alvarez speaks about her life and work with University of Texas at Austin professor Jennifer M. Wilks in a Harry Ransom Lecture this Monday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in Jessen Auditorium at Homer Rainey Hall. A book signing and reception follow at the… read more 

November 6, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events

James Salter speaks this week at the Ransom Center

Cover of James Salter's "All That Is."

Writer James Salter, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, will discuss his life and work with Professor Thomas F. Staley on Thursday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m.   Salter is the author of A Sport and a Pastime and the acclaimed new novel All That Is. He received the… read more 

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