Author Archives: Rare Books and Special Collections

Anne Margaret Daniel *99 w’ 86, who teaches literature at the New School University in New York and is writing about F. Scott Fitzgerald on stage and film, has published an article in the Times Literary Supplement highlighting Scott and … Continue reading →

In 1995 the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library acquired the papers of the acclaimed Mex­i­can author Car­los Fuentes (1928–2012), whose pass­ing on May 15 has been marked inter­na­tion­ally by all who admired his major con­tri­bu­tions to mod­ern lit­er­a­ture and his role as … Continue reading →

The Princeton University Archives, working in conjunction with the Princeton University Library Digital Initiatives, has nearly completed a monumental project that will change the way researchers investigate University history.

Following President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s declaration of a four-day nationwide bank holiday during the Great Depression, The Daily Princetonian issued its own currency in denominations of 25 cents. The currency first appeared on March 7, 1933, in the form of … Continue reading →