May 15, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsAcclaimed writer Ian McEwan’s archive acquired The Harry Ransom Center has acquired the archive of writer Ian McEwan (b. 1948), one of the most distinguished novelists of his generation. The archive documents McEwan’s career and includes early material from his childhood and adolescence, as well as his earliest abandoned stories dating from the late-1960s and early… read more
May 9, 2014, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRansom Center to host more than 80 scholars in fellowship program’s 25th year The Ransom Center will support more than 80 research fellows for 2014–2015, the 25th anniversary of the fellowship program. Since the program’s inception, the Center has awarded fellowships to more than 900 scholars from around the world. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use… read more
January 7, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingResearch at the Ransom Center: “To Cape Town and back, via Mongolia” Perhaps one of the most distinctive features of J. M. Coetzee’s 1981 novel Waiting for the Barbarians is the setting—an imaginary empire, one lacking a specified place and time. Yet, when Coetzee penned the first draft of the novel, it was set in Cape Town, South Africa. David Attwell, a… read more
