RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

Birss Memorial Lecture Series and Exhibit Materials (UA 2014.005)

Roger Williams University

Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
Tel: 401-254-3049
Fax: 401-254-3631
email: hbenedict@rwu.edu

Arrangement

The collection is arranged chronologically by year.

  • 2001: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • 2002: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • 2003: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • 2004: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • 2005: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • 2006: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  • 2007: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • 2008: Night by Elie Wiesel
  • 2009: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • 2011: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  • 2012: Their Eye Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • 2013: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • 2014: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • 2015: Native Son by Richard Wright
  • 2016: In Cold Bloos by Truman Capote
  • 2017: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • 2018: Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
  • 2019: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • 2020: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • 2021: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman by Ernest Gaines
  • 2022: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • 2023: My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
  • 2024: The Street by Ann Petry