Miles Wilson Accessions
Scope and Contents
Multiple accessions from Texas State University professor and writer, Miles Wilson. Materials include research and drafts for his books, Line of Fall, Fire Season, Going the Distance, and Harm: Poems.
Dates
- 1965 - 2016
Creator
- Wilson, Miles (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 Note
Miles Wilson was the founding director of the MFA program in creative writing at Texas State University, where he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He is the author of three prize-winning books: Fire Season (2014), Harm (2003), and Line of Fall (1989.) His newest book, Woodswork: New and Selected Stories of the American West, is forthcoming in 2018 from the University of New Mexico Press.
Wilson served three fire seasons (1964, 1965, 1967) as a member of the Dalton Hotshots, a U.S. Forest Service Interregional Fire Crew based on the Angeles National Forest in California. While serving with the Dalton Hotshots, Wilson received a Bachelors degree in English at Pomona College and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon.
He is the recipient of numerous awards for his previous publications, including the John Simmons Short Fiction Award from the University of Iowa Press for Line of Fall and the Violet Crown Book Award from the Writer's League of Texas/Barnes & Noble for Harm. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Wilson currently divides his time between San Marcos, Texas and his native Oregon.
Extent
8 Linear Feet
8 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- The descriptive data created for this finding aid is licensed under the CC0 Creative Commons license and is free for use without restriction.
Abstract
Multiple accessions from Texas State University professor and writer, Miles Wilson. Materials include research and drafts for his books, Line of Fall, Fire Season, Going the Distance, and Harm: Poems.
Physical Location
Materials may be stored off-site. Advance notice is required for use: https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/makearesearchappointment.html.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifts of Miles Wilson, 2016, 2018
- Title
- Guide to the Miles Wilson Accessions
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2021: Revised for ArchivesSpace by Katie Salzmann
Repository Details
Part of the The Wittliff Collections Repository
