May 16, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingUnpublished David Foster Wallace story donated to the Ransom Center The Ransom Center’s extensive David Foster Wallace collection was recently enriched by a donation of the original manuscript of a little-known, unpublished story, titled “Shorn.” Wallace wrote the two-page story, about a boy having his hair cut by his mother, while a graduate student at the University of Arizona. The… read more
October 23, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsKnopf archive documents Nobel Prize–winner Alice Munro’s early struggles with the genre of the short story On Thursday, October 10, the Nobel Prize Foundation awarded the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature to author Alice Munro, making Munro the 13th woman to win the award since its inception in 1901, and the first ever female winner from Canada. Munro—unlike most previous prize winners—is renowned not for novels… read more
