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We are lucky to be part of a first-class university
in a city perennially voted among the most livable in the
country. With a faculty and professional programs of international
reputation, UT is home to outstanding libraries, including
one of the world's finest cultural archives, The
Ransom Center, which houses a Gutenberg Bible, the first
photograph, the manuscripts of writers such as T.S. Eliot,
James Joyce, Tom Stoppard, Jack Kerouac, and Ernest Hemingway,
to name but a few of its treasures.
"The Live Music Capitol of the World," Austin is also a thriving
community of visual, theatre, cinema and literary artists.
Located on the cusp of the South and the West at the edge
of the Texas Hill Country--a rolling landscape of limestone
bluffs, springs, rivers and lakes--Austin is ideal for year-round
cycling, hiking on the city's many trails, or swimming at
Barton
Springs.
The "Silicon Hills" are also a base for major high-tech companies,
but Austin's identity as state capital and home to the U.S.'s
largest university are its real shaping traits. Its sophisticated
but laid-back lifestyle makes it an ideal place for writers
to find the time, support and community to do serious work.
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