national book award winner

Cultural response to 9/11 reveals deeper meaning

Daily Texan  Fri, 09/09/2011 - 4:26am

It was the 2009 National Book Award winner “Let the Great World Spin” by Irish author Colum McCann that served as the impetus for UT lecturer David Junker’s neoteric pursuit.



 

Ransom acquires author Denis Johnson's papers

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Wed, 07/07/2010 - 10:36am

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the papers of National Book Award winner Denis Johnson, author of "Jesus' Son" and "Tree of Smoke." Denis Johnson speaks on a panel at the 2008 Flair Symposium on "Building the Archive." Photo: Anthony Maddaloni Johnson was born [...]



 

Ransom holds papers of National Book Award winner

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 11/20/2008 - 3:34pm

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds the papers of Peter Matthiessen, winner of the 59th annual National Book Award.

Matthiessen won for "Shadow Country," a reworking of his trilogy released in the 1990s about the Florida sugarcane farmer and infamous murderer Edgar J.

Watson. In this edition, the three stories [...]