One of the world's leading research universities, the Atlanta-based institution's president James Wagner invited the author to entrust his literary records spanning 40 years, stuffed in hundred of boxes, to Emory. Farr, coordinator of the digital archives at Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL), worked at digitising, cataloguing and archiving material derived from floppy disks, scribbles, doodles, faded faxes and discarded drafts.