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Journalist, Screenwriter Aaron Latham Donates His Papers

January 25, 2019 - Jennifer Tisdale

Author, journalist and screenwriter Aaron Latham has donated his papers to the Harry Ransom Center.  [Read more…] about Journalist, Screenwriter Aaron Latham Donates His Papers

Filed Under: Featured1 Tagged With: Aaron Latham, Acquisitions, author, journalism, literature, screenwriting

Stop the presses: Benjamin C. Bradlee papers open for research

February 14, 2017 - Ancelyn Krivak

Ben Bradlee in his office at The Washington Post with Katharine Graham, Patrick Tyler, and Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., 1983.

The papers of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center.

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Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: A Good life, acquisition, Acquisitions, Ben Bradlee, Ben Bradlee Papers, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, editor, Finding Aid, Harvard Grant Study, How to Read a Newspaper, John F. Kennedy, journalism, Katharine Graham, news, newspaper, newsroom, Newsweek, Pentagon Papers, reporter, The Washington Post, Washington, Watergate

Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde

April 13, 2016 - Gerald Cloud

Oscar Wilde in New York, 1882, from the Oscar Wilde Literary File at the Harry Ransom Center.

This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright.

Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.

[Read more…] about Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Andre Raffalovich, Arthur Goddard, bibliophile, Cicero, De Profundis, Dublin, Edward Freeman, James Thomason, journalism, Lord Alfred Douglas, Magdalen College, marginalia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Literary File, Oscar’s Books, Oxford, personal libraries, Theodore Tilton, Thomas Wright, Trinity College

“Los Mundos Políticos de Gabriel García Márquez”: Con Lina del Castillo

October 27, 2015 - Lina Del Castillo

LIna del Castillo

Lina del Castillo es profesora en el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos Teresa Lozano Long (LLILAS) y el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Ella será la moderadora del panel  “Los Mundos Políticos de Gabriel García Márquez” este viernes, Oct. 30, en el simposio Gabriel García Márquez: Vida y Legado.

[Read more…] about “Los Mundos Políticos de Gabriel García Márquez”: Con Lina del Castillo

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Flair Symposium, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: His Life and Legacy, GGM symposium Spanish, journalism, Latin American literature, Lina del Castillo, literature, politics

Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee’s Archive Donated

June 3, 2015 - Jennifer Tisdale

Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham with reporters Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, editor Howard Simons discuss the Watergate story in Post managing editor Benjamin C. Bradlee in Bradlee's office at the Washington Post, April, 1973.

The archive of Ben Bradlee (1921-2014), former editor of The Washington Post, has been donated to the Ransom Center.

Bradlee presided over the Post — first as managing editor and then as executive editor — and led the paper through the publication of the Pentagon Papers and coverage of the Watergate scandal. Under his leadership, the Post earned 17 Pulitzer Prizes and a reputation for excellence in investigative reporting.

[Read more…] about Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee’s Archive Donated

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Fellowships, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, journalism, Katharine Graham, Lillian Hellman, Newsweek, Pentagon Papers, Philip Graham, Richard Nixon, Sally Quinn, Washington Post, Watergate, Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers

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