Booker Prize Fund Announced

Now 30 years old, the Booker Prize is without doubt the most prestigious literary award for writers in the English language. Thanks to the generosity of Thomas J. Healey (C'64) and the Healey Family Foundation, the library will be well-equipped to collect the printed works and manuscripts both of Booker winners and of those short-listed for the award since its birth in 1969.

The library already has a significant collection of the works of Paul Scott, the 1977 winner for Staying On. But the current use funds and parallel endowment provided by the Healeys will enable the development of strong collections for each of the dozens of authors whose work has made the envied and heatedly debated "short list." The collection itself is mentioned on page 14 of booker 30 a celebration of 30 years of the booker prize for fiction 1969-1998 (Booker, 1998).