Richard Oram

Richard Oram is Associate Director and Hobby Foundation Librarian at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a book about writers’ libraries.

What to Learn From Writers’ Personal Libraries

Off the Shelf

<p>Many famous authors’ personal book collections—Shakespeare, Fielding, Dickens—have been lost. Richard Oram, associate director of the Ransom Center, says we can learn a lot from these private libraries and looks at the case of writer Nancy Cunard. Plus, <a href="/content/dailybeast/galleries/2013/09/17/writers-and-their-libraries-what-books-did-david-foster-wallace-james-joyce-and-evelyn-waugh-own-photos.html">see photos</a> of some of the books once owned by David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, and others.</p>

Richard Oram | Published Sep 17, 2013