Collection Summary
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Banks, Russell, 1940-2023
Russell Banks Collection
1972-2004
1 box (.42 linear feet)
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.
English
Manuscript Collection MS-05385
Acquisition:
Purchases and Internal Transfer, 2004-2009 (R16500, 2009-09-007-P)
Access:
Open for research
Processed by:
Elizabeth E. Preston, 2015
Scope and Contents
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.
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.
Container List
Works
The Book of Jamaica, corrected typescript, 1980
1.1-1.2
The Book of Jamaica, accompanying material, 1980
1.3
Correspondence
Klinkowitz, Jerome, 1973-1985
1.4
Simic, Charles, 1972-1983
1.5
Personal and Professional
War Trash, by Ha Jin, review by Banks in New York Times Book Review, 10 October
2004
1.6