Why a California Couple Gave Millions to Rare Book School
Book-loving adventures over five decades inspired a California couple to make a $3.1 million donation to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the largest donation in its history.
July 10, 2025
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Book-loving adventures over five decades inspired a California couple to make a $3.1 million donation to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the largest donation in its history.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/why-california-couple-gave-millions-rare-book-school
Let’s Circle Back is a corporate storytelling game and prompt deck that’s designed to break the ice with new employees or enhance the workplace culture within a veteran staff.
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The exhibition, titled “Anne Spencer: I Am Here!” showcases the life and work of Lynchburg poet Anne Spencer.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/through-harlem-renaissance-poets-garden-and-her-work-and-life
This scary season, if you find yourself on a midnight dreary without a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore to ponder, the University of Virginia Library has recommendations for you.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/halloween-curl-these-haunting-reads-uva-library
Jacquie Walters never thought she would be a writer.
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Last spring, UVA acquired 16 letters from Faulkner to his mother written while he traveled through Europe in the fall of 1925.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/where-faulkner-was-happy-william-faulkner-abroad-home-and-uva
Our friends over at the University of Virginia Library have offered their own reading recommendations with every quiz result.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/quiz-what-kind-reader-are-you
For retired Virginia Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark, a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia’s School of Law, law was a fallback career, a parent-pleasing choice he made after he found nobody wanted to hire him to teach creative writing.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/judge-bestselling-author-help-tom-wolfe-and-rita-mae-brown
Georgia Hunter’s journey to becoming a New York Times bestselling author and co-producer of the Hulu series based on her book, “We Were the Lucky Ones,” began with an English paper assignment when she was 15.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/she-wrote-we-were-lucky-ones-and-co-produced-hit-hulu-series
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Author, journalist and activist Ta-Nehisi Coates, spoke on Friday, March 8, to a UVA audience and to attendees of the ninth annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society hosted by the University’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
https://as.virginia.edu/ta-nehisi-coates-speaks-uva-future-reparations-and-power-writing