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New Wittliff exhibit explores life on the edge of death

Surveying The Wittliff’s rich literary archives, this new exhibition, I Pray You Stay Alive: Writing on the Edge, explores how our best writers have personally confronted life-or-death situations: war and murder, race riots and civil rights, perilous migrant journeys, sexual assault, domestic abuse, hate crimes, cancer, mass shootings and a pandemic. “So many of these …

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Sandra Cisneros’ archive opens to eager researchers

In summer 2015, the Wittliff Collections acquired the major literary archive of author, Sandra Cisneros. As one of America’s leading writers, Cisneros helped launch the Latino literary boom and is the author of poetry, a memoir, essays, children’s books, and fiction – including the internationally acclaimed The House on Mango Street. In October – just …

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VIDEO: Sandra Cisneros and John Phillip Santos

In April of 2017, Sandra Cisneros visited campus to celebrate the opening of her archives at The Wittliff. Here is a video of that celebration and her conversation with colleague John Phillip Santos. For information about upcoming events at The Wittliff see our events page.  

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