December 3, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school Dr. Niall Munro, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, was a fellow at the Ransom Center during the summer of 2015. His research was supported by the Fred W. Todd Southern Literature Endowment Fund. Munro is at work on a book entitled “Our only ‘felt’ history”: American… read more
October 22, 2015, Filed Under: AuthorsDime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. Alguna vez Gabriel García Márquez comentó que creía que la principal razón por la cual los escritores leen las novelas de otros, era para aprender cómo las escribieron. Para el laureado con este Premio Nobel los libros tenían una… read more
October 22, 2015, Filed Under: AuthorsThe company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. Gabriel García Márquez once said that he believed the main reason writers read the novels of others is to learn for themselves how the books had been written. Books were tremendously important to this Nobel laureate, and he… read more
