January 11, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingViewing the twentieth century via the PEN archive Recently I was lucky enough to spend four months digging through the PEN (Poets Essayists and Novelists Club) archive at the Harry Ransom Center.
January 9, 2018, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing ArtsArthur Miller at the center of a network of Ransom Center collections By Megan Barnard and Eric Colleary Arthur Miller has long had a significant presence at the Ransom Center. In 1961 and 1962, Miller donated a collection of his manuscripts to the Center.
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsA nomad’s writing finds a home Q&A with Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje began his career as a poet but is best known as the author of the 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient, which was made into a critically-acclaimed motion picture. He was born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1943; he moved to Canada… read more