[单项选择]The British author Salman Rushdie is selling his personal archive to a wealthy American university. The archive, which includes personal diaries written during the decade that he spent living in hiding from Islamic extremists, is being bought by the Emory University in Atlanta for an undisclosed sum. The move has sparked concern that Britain’s literary heritage is being lost to foreign buyers. The archive also includes two unpublished novels.
Rushdie, 59, said last week that his priority had been to "find a good home" for his papers, but admitted that money had also been a factor. "I don’t see why I should give them away," he said. "It seemed to me quite reasonable that one should be paid." The sum involved is likely to match or exceed similar deals. In 2003 Emory bought the archive of Ted Hughes, the late poet laureate, for a reported $ 600,000. Julian Barnes, the author of Flaubert’s Parrot, is said to have sold his papers to the University of Texas at Austin for $200,000.A. were not included in the archive sold to the Emory University
B. will not be open to the public in the near future
C. were all about the writing of The Satanic Verses
D. will soon be published to expose the persecution of Islamic extremists