The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is home to the archives of novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This archival collection includes ten book manuscripts, 40 photo albums, and over 2,000 pieces of correspondence. Interested readers from around the world can explore almost 400 digitized items from this collection on the Ransom Center's website. Visitors can explore the digital collection by selecting the browse link. From here, researchers can conduct a keyword search or explore the digital collection by date, creator, format (e.g. manuscripts, color photographs) genre (e.g. fiction, journalism, novellas), or subject. A few highlights of this collection include: images from a 1966 manuscript of Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), a 1929 photograph of Garcia Marquez as a child, and a copy of the author's 1982 speech "La Soledad de America Latina" (The Solitude of Latin America).
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