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Playwright Arthur Miller’s archive opens to researchers

December 5, 2019 - Harry Ransom Center

miller papers open

The complete archive of Arthur Miller, one of America’s most acclaimed playwrights, is now available for teaching and research use at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.  [Read more…] about Playwright Arthur Miller’s archive opens to researchers

Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Arthur Miller, PEN International

NEH Grant Supports Ransom Center’s ‘Writers Without Borders’ Project

March 29, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

The Harry Ransom Center has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a two-year, $195,000 project to arrange, describe, selectively digitize, and share its PEN records. The Ransom Center holds the archives of PEN International and English PEN, who share the mission of promoting literature and defending freedom of expression around the world.

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Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Cataloging, literature, National Endowment for the Humanities, PEN International

What’s in the PEN archives?

March 27, 2017 - Harry Ransom Center

PEN. Membership card with information for Malcolm Muggeridge, 1955-1990.

The PEN records occupy 180 linear feet, span 1912 to 2008, and document the history and activities of the English PEN and PEN International, as well as the formation (and sometimes dissolution) of other PEN centers around the globe.

[Read more…] about What’s in the PEN archives?

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: activism, archive, Arthur Miller, Catharine Amy Dawson Scott, collections, David Carver, digital archive, grant, Hermon Ould, human rights, John Galsworthy, PEN, PEN America, PEN International, politics, Storm Jameson

Writers without borders: The power of PEN

March 27, 2017 - Harry Ransom Center

PEN. Appeal to All Governments, printed text in English, French, and German, 1931.

The story of twentieth-century political activism, persecution, and creative expression cannot be fully understood without exploring the rich materials in the PEN records at the Harry Ransom Center. [Read more…] about Writers without borders: The power of PEN

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: National Endowment for the Humanities, Nobel Prize, PEN archive, PEN International

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