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Nobelist Doris Lessing’s Ransom connection
More breaking books news from Pat Beach:
Upon awarding Doris Lessing the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature Thursday, the committee called her “that epicist of the human experience.” A portion of that epicist’s archive resides at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
The prize is sure to enhance interest in — and the value of — Lessing’s archive, which includes a heavily revised manuscript of her 1985 novel, “The Good Terrorist,” master galleys of “Canopus in Argus” and rare typescripts. The Ransom Center acquired Lessing’s papers in 1999, bolstering its collection of 20th Century women writers’ archives, including Anne Sexton and Carson McCullers.
To browse a preliminary inventory of Lessing’s papers, go to www.hrc.utexas.edu.
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