Abstract Judy Alter began donating her papers to the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections in 1993. Alter writes for both adults and young readers and she is best known for her books on women and girls of the American West. Among her many honors are “best book” awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Western Writers of America, and the Western Heritage (Wrangler) Awards from the National Cowboy Museum. In 1996 the Dallas Morning News named her one of 100 Women Who Have Left...

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The Sarah Bird Papers spans 1985 to 1991 and consist of manuscripts, screenplays, style sheets, and copy editing notes relating to the production of her literary works.

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The Cindy Bonner papers document the writing and editing process of her novels and short stories, including research notes, annotated drafts, proofs, and correspondence, dating from 1983-1999.

Abstract The Sandra Cisneros Papers span 1954-2014 and are divided into twenty-seven series that document her entire life and literary career up until the archives acquisition in 2015. The bulk of the archive consists of Cisneros’ writings, correspondence, photographs, publicity, and letters from readers. Many other aspects of her career are represented through professional papers, publishing, awards, and organizational affiliations such as the Alfred Cisneros del Moral Foundation, the Macondo...

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Clara Marburg Kirk, was an American author married to a professor at Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State University), Rudolf Kirk. This collection contains materials related to her book "Oliver Goldsmith" along with a small amount of personal papers.

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Research notes, annotated typescripts, correspondence, photographs, and newsclippings from the literary career of Elizabeth Crook.

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Research notes, annotated typescripts, correspondence, photographs, and newsclippings make up the Elizabeth Crook papers, and relate mainly to Crook’s novels of historical fiction, Raven’s Bride (1991), and Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion (1994).

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Correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and other research materials represent the life of Nadine Eckhardt, author of Duchess of Palms. The materials were collected over the life span of Eckhardt, born in 1931, and were used in research for her memoir. The materials are arranged into five series: Personal Papers, Correspondence, Photographs, Printed Materials and Dutches of Palms.

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Research materials and correspondence related Flora Armitage’s biography on T. E. Lawrence.

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Archival inventory of the literary career of Jean Flynn.

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Printed material, correspondence, financial and legal documentation, handwritten notes, books and other published material, photographs, artifacts, and sound recordings document the education, teaching careers, and personal and financial lives of Jovita González Mireles and Edmundo E. Mireles.

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The Shelby Hearon Papers contain notes, drafts of novels, and clippings.

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Personal papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, computer disks and numerous copies of Hughes short stories, story lines, poems, and letters to editors documenting Hughes’s 2002 Puckerbrush Press collection, Cora’s Seduction and Other Stories.

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This collection is comprised of handwritten and typed letters from Texas author Elithe Hamilton Kirkland to her friend Nancie Austin, of Wimberley, Texas.

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Correspondence, drafts, typescripts, photographs, scrapbooks, artifacts, ephemera and clippings document the writing career of Texas Women’s Hall of Fame writer, Elithe Hamilton Kirkland.

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The Pat LittleDog Papers are comprised of diaries, typescripts, correspondence, artifacts, and published journals.

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Materials pertaining to Beverly Lowry's writing career. Items included are: manuscripts, galleys, subject interviews, reviews, notes, research material, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, books, magazines, journals, and scrapbooks

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Typescript drafts, correspondence, notes, clippings, journals, and photographs document the writing career of Beverly Lowry. The bulk of the papers relate to four of Lowry’s seven published books, with The Perfect Sonya and Crossed Overbeing the most fully represented. The collection is arranged into the following seven series: Works, Correspondence, Clippings, Publicity, Computer disks, Personal, and Artifacts.

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Drafts, photographs, interviews for the Dian Malouf archive. This collection includes drafts in various stages and photographs related to Malouf’s two books, “Seldom Heard” and “Cattle Kings.” This collection also contains numerous audiocassettes of interviews and corresponding transcripts used to develop the two books. It appears part of this collection was once accessioned, and later deaccessioned, at Southern Methodist University.

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Annotated drafts, typescripts, page proofs, galleys, correspondence,photographs, notes, and newsclippings dating from 1984-2001 represent the writing career of award-winning children’s book writer, Angela Shelf Medearis.