February 18, 2016, Filed Under: Authors“Countée Cullen. Twenty-two. Watch him.” Countée Cullen was one of the first poets to establish a national reputation in the midst of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Critics recognized Cullen’s first book of poetry, Color (1925), as a significant literary achievement.
February 11, 2016, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsLove letters from the archive The millions of materials in the Ransom Center are as diverse as they are interesting. But everything inside is united by one common focus, the humanities—the exploration of what it means to be human. The artists, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers, and everyone else whose belongings and legacies live in the… read more
October 22, 2015, Filed Under: AuthorsTexas, the state that stole the heart of literary giant Jorge Luis Borges In 2014 the Harry Ransom Center acquired the archive of Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez. García Márquez would surely enjoy knowing that his archive resides alongside an important collection of papers by Jorge Louis Borges.
