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The Paris Review

Interview with Matthew Weiner, creator, executive producer, writer, and director of the series Mad Men

January 12, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

The archive for the acclaimed drama Mad Men, one of television’s most honored series in history, has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center. The donation was made by Matthew Weiner, the series creator, executive producer, writer and director; and Lionsgate, which produced the critically acclaimed series.

To mark this news, Weiner shares his thoughts on the value of archives, the show’s influence, and the storylines that got away. [Read more…] about Interview with Matthew Weiner, creator, executive producer, writer, and director of the series Mad Men

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, AMC, interview, Lionsgate, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, New York, Q&A, Research, television, The Paris Review, The Sopranos

Materials from Peter Matthiessen’s archive on display in Ransom Center’s lobby

April 15, 2014 - Alicia Dietrich

Photo of Peter Matthiessen by Jesse Close

To honor acclaimed novelist, naturalist, and wilderness writer Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014), the Ransom Center is highlighting materials from his archive in its lobby.

Matthiessen was born in New York City to a well-to-do family and educated at Yale. Determined to pursue a writing career, Matthiessen moved to Paris where he became one of the founders of The Paris Review, which, he later admitted, he invented as a cover while working briefly for the CIA. In his 45-year career as a writer, Matthiessen produced more than 30 works, winning National Book Awards for The Snow Leopard (1978) and Shadow Country (2008), a one-volume revision of a trilogy of frontier Florida novels published in the 1990s. In writing to the Ransom Center about Shadow Country, Matthiessen confessed, “I was dismayed to find upon opening the finished product at long last that it was still unfinished.”

Matthiessen’s rich archive was acquired by the Center in 1995, and materials were added in succeeding years. It includes manuscripts, correspondence, journals, and professional files that span his writing career and include fiction, nonfiction, and essays, often in multiple drafts.

Writer James Salter, whose papers also reside at the Ransom Center, paid tribute to Matthiessen in The New Yorker.

The materials in the lobby are on view through April 27.

Photo of Peter Matthiessen by Jesse Close.

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: display, exhibition, Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country, The Paris Review, The Snow Leopard

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