AUSTIN, TX.- The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of writer and actor Spalding Gray (1941-2004). Spanning more than 40 years, the archive traces the author’s career since the late 1970s, when Gray helped define a new era in theater where public and private life became an indivisible part of each new performance. Recognized for his critically acclaimed dramatic monologues in which he drew upon his experiences, Gray wrote and performed such works as “Swimming to Cambodia” (1985), “Monster in a Box” (1992), “Gray’s Anatomy” (1994), “It’s a Slippery Slope” (1997) and “Morning, Noon and Night” (1999). Gray died in New York of an apparent suicide in 2004. He had been working on another monologue,