Above: Gabriel García Márquez working on “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Photograph by Guillermo Angulo. Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) at the University of Texas at Austin is marking the day by releasing an online collection documenting the creation of the novel that catapulted Márquez onto the world stage. Read my story about it on the Fine Books Blog.