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Authors, American -- Texas -- 20th century

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4995 Collections and/or Records:

"Buying the Farm"; emails pertaining to and printout of "Buying the Farm" by Donley Watt, 2016

 File — Box 3671, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, drafts of short stories, and notes, from novelist Donley Watt dating 1984-2019. Short stories include "A Tragedy on the Mexican Border", "Circling", "A Special Place", "Buying the Farm", "Right of Way", "Wish Me Luck", "Something Old, Something New, Something White and Black and Brown", "Headed to Tornillo" and "La Gloria de San Caralampio, Mexico".

Dates: 2016
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Donley Watt Additions / Accession 2021-108

By Bizarre Hands

 File — Box 2, Folder: 3-4
Series Description From the Series: The majority of the material in this series is manuscripts, some marked by the editor. Artwork and galley proofs are also included. The files are arranged in chronological order. Titles include: Cold Sweat, an unpublished anthology, The Drive In, The New Frontier: Best of the West 2, By Bizarre Hands, Ice Birds, ...
Dates: 1985-1992
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Joe R. Lansdale Papers / Works

Byrum, John, “Beatnik Confidential”, undated

 File — Box 67, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by author and includes mostly photocopied short stories and screenplays. Two notable items relating to Lewis are a forty-six page biography, Grover Lewis: The Uncommon Insight and Grace of an Ordinary Man, written by longtime friend and poet R.K. Scott; and the screenplay Deep Ellum, by Stan Vosper, Jr., based on Lewis’s adolescent days with Larry McMurtry and other North Texas friends. ...
Dates: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Grover Lewis Papers / Works by Others

C

 File — Box 15, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains correspondence regarding Cartwright’s writing projects and those of others. The letters are arranged alphabetically. Notable correspondents include Bill Broyles, Cartwright family members, A.C. Greene, Stephen Harrigan, Ann Richards, and Bud Shrake as well as Playboy Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Texas Monthly.

Dates: 1977-1998
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Gary Cartwright Papers / Correspondence

C - Callery, 1994-2000, undated

 File — Box 23, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates: 1994-2000, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / John Graves Papers / Correspondence

“CA Hill”; drafts of “Prince of Christler-Coke” and “Hard Time”; and correspondence, 1958-2008

 File — Box 1075, Folder: 4
Dates: 1958-2008
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Neal Barrett, Jr. Additions / Accession 2008-140

Cable Guide, 1986 - 1987

 Sub-Series — Box 78-81
Cable Guide (boxes 78-81)

In 1986, Broyles and his colleagues bought Cable Guide magazine. This small series includes files relating to the acquisition of the magazine, financial materials, and other administrative records.

Dates: 1986 - 1987
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / William Broyles, Jr. Papers / Magazines

Cactus Alley with “The Sheet Cave” and “Out on 1040.”; Family Circle Mary Higgins Clark Mystery with “A Small Silver Gun.” , 1988, 1999

 File — Box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A copy of Cactus Alley (1988) which contains the first two short stories Riordan published, “The Sheet Cave” and “Out on 1040.” A copy of Family Circle Mary Higgins Clark Mystery (Summer 1998)featuring Riordan’s short story “A Small Silver Gun.”

Dates: 1988, 1999
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Rick Riordan Papers / Published Short Stories

"Caddo"

 File — Box 13, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donley Watt Papers span the years from 1970 to 2004. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, notes, drafts, and computer discs. The bulk of the papers is focused on the writings of his published works from 1994 to 2004: Can You Get There From Here; The Journal of Hector Rabinal; Haley, Texas 1959; Reynolds; and ...
Dates: Publication: 1994
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Donley Watt Papers / Short Fiction / Can You Get There From Here? [Short Story Collection]

Cafe Noir

 File — Box 15, Folder: 7
Series Description From the Series:

This series of subject files and artist files, made up of newspaper clippings, notes, interviews, photographs and ephemera, illustrates Patoski's many areas of interest and his research methods. Patoski wrote about and published pieces relating to many of the topics and people in the subject and artist files. Of particular note is the large amount on material on Joe "King" Carrasco and his band, who Patoski managed in the 1980s.

Dates: 1968-1998, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Joe Nick Patoski Papers / Research Material / Artist Files

Cafésolo 9, “Lash LaRue in the Box Canyon” - Published copies, 1975

 File — Box 20, Folder: 11
Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by publication and surveys Lewis’s entire writing career from his earliest poetry and short fiction publications in Avesta (1955)—the student literary magazine of North Texas State College—to his last published piece, a profile of well-known photographer Birney Imes, published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine (1994). Material from a posthumous collection of Lewis’s writing,...
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Grover Lewis Papers / Published Work

Cahoots, undated

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series:

This series comprises the bulk of the collection and includes drafts, typescripts, annotated typescripts, and bound typescripts of published and unpublished novels.

Dates: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Michael Zagst Papers / Novels

"Cairn” annotated typescript, circa 1978

 File — Box 5, Folder: 17-18
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series has been arranged in alphabetical order by title, and includes mainly annotated typescripts and fragments of each short story, as well as one galley, and one carbon copy.

Dates: circa 1978
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / James Crumley Papers / Short Stories

Calendars

 File — Box 4, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged by subject and contains material reflecting important aspects of Lewis’s Life. The Rolling Stone material is a sub-series containing mostly office memoranda, but also some humorous general correspondence and related ephemera. Other notable material is the transcription of Robert Draper’s interview with Lewis, which Draper conducted for his book-length expose, Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History. Lewis’s...
Dates: 1960-1995
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Grover Lewis Papers / Personal Papers

California, “On the Road with Ray: The First Bradbury Novel in 23 Years Takes Some Serendipitous Turns” - Published copy and tear sheets, 1985

 File — Box 20, Folder: 14
Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by publication and surveys Lewis’s entire writing career from his earliest poetry and short fiction publications in Avesta (1955)—the student literary magazine of North Texas State College—to his last published piece, a profile of well-known photographer Birney Imes, published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine (1994). Material from a posthumous collection of Lewis’s writing,...
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Grover Lewis Papers / Published Work

California, “On the Road with Ray: The First Bradbury Novel in 23 Years Takes Some Serendipitous Turns” - Related material, 1985

 File — Box 20, Folder: 12
Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by publication and surveys Lewis’s entire writing career from his earliest poetry and short fiction publications in Avesta (1955)—the student literary magazine of North Texas State College—to his last published piece, a profile of well-known photographer Birney Imes, published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine (1994). Material from a posthumous collection of Lewis’s writing,...
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Grover Lewis Papers / Published Work

California, “On the Road with Ray: The First Bradbury Novel in 23 Years Takes Some Serendipitous Turns” - Typescripts and page proofs, 1985

 File — Box 20, Folder: 13
Series Description From the Series: This series is arranged alphabetically by publication and surveys Lewis’s entire writing career from his earliest poetry and short fiction publications in Avesta (1955)—the student literary magazine of North Texas State College—to his last published piece, a profile of well-known photographer Birney Imes, published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine (1994). Material from a posthumous collection of Lewis’s writing,...
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Grover Lewis Papers / Published Work

Call sheets

 File — Box 9, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates: 1990-1994
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Severo Perez Papers / Film / …And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him… / Production Materials

Calling cards, undated

 File — Box 1855, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves include his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his later years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / John Graves Additions / Accession 2014-082

Robert Calvert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SWWC-065
Abstract

This collection contains annotated typescripts and page proofs of Robert A. Calvert’s collaborative book projects focusing on Texas history and culture.

Dates: 1970-1995; Majority of material found within 1987-1994
Found in: The Wittliff Collections