Rushdie joins the faculty of Emory Univ

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Salman Rushdie will join the Emory University faculty and donate his archive to the Atlanta institution.

The novelist’s five-year appointment as a distinguished writer in residence in the English department begins in the spring of 2007, Emory officials announced Friday. University President James Wagner said Rushdie is “not only one of the foremost writers of our generation, he is also a courageous champion of human rights and freedom.”

Included in the archive are Rushdie’s private journals, personal correspondence, notebooks, photographs and manuscripts of all of his writings, including two early unpublished novels.