A Preliminary Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Banks, Russell, 1940-2023
Title:
Russell Banks Collection
Dates:
1972-2004
Extent:
1 box (.42 linear feet)
Abstract:
This collection contains a typescript of a
novel, professional correspondence, and a copy of the New York Times Book Review with
a
review by Russell Banks.
This collection contains material relating to American novelist and poet Russell Banks
and
his professional activities. The bulk of the collection is a corrected typescript
of The Book of Jamaica (1980). Other materials include correspondence
with colleagues and a published review Banks wrote of Ha Jin’s War Trash in 2004.
Related Material
Additional Russell Banks materials at the Ransom Center are located in the Russell
Banks
Papers, the Ray Kass Collection of Russell Banks, and the Stephen Banks Collection
of
Russell Banks.