January 29, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Researcher traces the compositional structures of David Foster Wallace’s Fiction David Hering, a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, visited the Ransom Center during the summer of 2013 to research his forthcoming book on David Foster Wallace. His research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment.
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David Foster Wallace collection was recently enriched by a donation of the original manuscript of a little-known, unpublished story, titled “Shorn.”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
September 27, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Research + TeachingDavid Foster Wallace materials related to "The Pale King now open for research" Materials related to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King (April 2011) are now open for research at the Ransom Center. The materials related to The Pale King were acquired as part of the Wallace (1962–2008) archive in 2010 but were retained by publisher Little, Brown and Co. until… read more
