In 2018, the UC Davis Library began to expand its Wine Writers Collection, which includes the papers and digital files of people who have written or podcasted about California wine from the 1950s to the present. The writers’ archives — and the ephemera they include — extend the literary works in the library’s circulating and rare wine book and manuscript collections, which date to the start of the twelfth century. UC Davis’s wine library documents the evolution of a genre and of a drink that’s both agricultural product and art. This lecture is jointly sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America and the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.
Jullianne H. Ballou
As the first Warren Winiarski Fellow at the UC Davis Library, Jullianne Ballou curates the library’s Wine Writers Collection. Previously, she was a librarian at the Harry Ransom Center, and before that, worked with writers as an editor of the Oxford American magazine and books published by The University of Texas Press.