The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, holds a number of materials important to the study of African history, cultures, and literary traditions. In 2011 it has acquired the archive of Nobel Prize-winning writer and University of Texas at Austin alumnus J. M. Coetzee. Spanning more than 50 years, the archive traces the author's life and career from 1956 through the present. The Center also holds material related to the South African writer and activist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and to the writer and journalist Herman Charles Bosman (1905-1951). The papers of Amos Tutuola (1920-1997) contain English and Yoruba manuscripts, including the handwritten original manuscript of The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), considered the first Anglophone Nigerian novel. The Bernth Lindfors Collection of Amos Tutuola supplements Tutuola's own materials. ... [according to site editor's information]