Pat LittleDog Papers

Collection

Identifier: SWWC-050

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of diaries, typescripts, correspondence, artifacts, and published journals. The bulk of the collection is formed by the typescripts of How It Happened That I Came to Live in the West. The Correspondence series also relates to this novel. Diaries date from LittleDog’s teenage years in Germany, a red Hofner accordion belonged to LittleDog’s father. Dates range from 1954-1984. Books and periodicals cataloged separately.

Dates

1954-1984

Creator

LittleDog, Pat, 1941- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research

Conditions Governing Use

Materials from the Wittliff Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user assumes responsibility for determining copyright status, obtaining permission to publish, and abiding by U.S. copyright laws. https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/visit/policies/publication.html

Biographical Notes

Novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Pat Ellis Taylor was born June 23, 1941 in Bryan, Texas. She lived in Weisbaden, Germany during her teenage years in the mid to late 1950s. She received her B.A. in 1969 and her M.A. in 1976, both from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her first novel, Border Healing Woman, won a Southwest Book Award in 1981, and her third, Afoot in a Field of Men and Other Stories from Dallas’ East Side, won a Texas Circuit Book Award. In 1991, Taylor changed her named to Pat LittleDog and published In Search of the Holy Mother of Jobs.