Special Collections and Archives - Collections

Special Collections

The Brodsky Faulkner Collection

The Brodsky Faulkner collection represents the life and career of the world renown and Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner. The collection consists of a large number of Faulkner books, handwritten and typewritten manuscripts, film scripts, letters, photographs, and research material amassed by Faulkner biographer, Joseph Blotner. Special Collections also has a growing collection of published Faulkner criticism. Patrons may locate individual titles by searching the Kent Library catalog.

The Charles L. Harrison Collection

The Harrison collection is an eclectic assemblage of rare books that are representative of the book arts of illustration, fine printing, illumination, fine binding, and fore-edged painting.