The University of Texas' Harry Ransom Centre has acquired David Foster Wallace's writing archive and will make this material available for public viewing autumn of this year.

Included in the archive are draft manuscripts, college and graduate school writings, hand-edited stories and essays, and, according to this Guardian article, an early childhood poem:

"This last, 'Viking Poem', was composed at around the age of six, and shows Wallace experimenting with his signature as well as revealing early signs of the acute comic sensibility that would mark his later work. ('If you were to see a viking today" the poem advises, "It's best you should go some other way / because they'd kill you very well / and all your gold they'd certainly sell / For all these reasons stay away'.)"

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