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Authors, American -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1296 Collections and/or Records:

Various subjects , 1994-1995

 File — Box 20, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents “Turkey Sag,” January, 1994 “Gary Cooper ofthe Landscape,” January, 1994 “A Weakness for Horses,” January, 1994 Actors, Simpatico, “An Actors Doubt,” January, 1994poem “My mother loved the sea...” March, 1994“Dreaming of a way to Enter the Unbearable Present,” April, 1994“Self Made Man (Divine Providence,” undated“Questions for Junior Brown,” March, 1995“Once,” May, 1995“Dignity,” May, 1995“A Man’s...
Dates: 1994-1995

Various subjects bound in black leather book with red marbled endpapers, 1989-1990, 1998

 File — Box 19, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

“Thin Skin – What Any Woman Can Do To You,” 1989

“J.D.’s Collapse,” December 1998

“Southwest Chief – L.A. to Chicago,” February 1989

“More Urgent Emergencies,” April, 1989

“Wild to the Wild,” May, 1989

“Ancient Fear of the Fiddle,” May, 1989

“Open Suitcase,” January, 1990

Dates: 1989-1990, 1998

Various subjects in black spiral-bound notebook, 1993-1996

 File — Box 19, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

“Brecht Clown Play - Joe - World Was Green - At theEdge of the World,” November 1993

“Confession - Obsession - Blessing or Curse,” “Oedipus,” October 1995

“Great Place,” November 1995

“Sins of the Distant Past,” “Marfa Lights,” February 1996; November 1993-January 1996,(black cover)

Dates: 1993-1996

Various subjects including: Synthetic Tears screenplay outline, Transfixion New Mexico, Fool for Love notes, 1981-1982

 File — Box 19, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series:

The Notebooks series includes handwritten notes, dialogue ideas, small drawings, and journal entries, usually in spiral bound notebooks. Some entries are personal and many were or were intended to be developed into longer works.

Dates: 1981-1995

Various subjects on loose sheets, 1984, 1987-1989, undated

 File — Box 19, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

“Machine Dreams: “Film Synopsis,” December 25, 1984

“Denial,” film sketch, February 1984

“History of the Dog,” undated

Film sketch beginning, “A Man has a dream about a murder...” undated

“Jealousy is not a pretty thing,” October 23, 1988

“States” notes, February, 1989

“1957” film notes, January 1, 1987

“The Man Who Could Not Stop Crying,” October 3, 1988

Dates: 1984, 1987-1989, undated

Various subjects on three loose pages: Angel, White Horse on Hudson, God, Tuna, undated

 File — Box 20, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series:

The Notebooks series includes handwritten notes, dialogue ideas, small drawings, and journal entries, usually in spiral bound notebooks. Some entries are personal and many were or were intended to be developed into longer works.

Dates: undated

Various travel and vacation guides and three book catalogs, undated

 File — Box 993, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Variety of material including CDs, LPs, t-shirt and caps, posters, magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings, drafts and manuscripts of work, photos, correspondence, music announcements and musician press kits, notes and notebooks, maps, brochures and other artifacts. Majority of material was not in files or labeled; file titles are in quotation marks when present.

Dates: undated

Various VHS tapes (handwritten and typed titles and notes appear in quotation marks), 1983-December 2, 2003

 Item — Box 1000
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Variety of material including CDs, LPs, t-shirt and caps, posters, magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings, drafts and manuscripts of work, photos, correspondence, music announcements and musician press kits, notes and notebooks, maps, brochures and other artifacts. Majority of material was not in files or labeled; file titles are in quotation marks when present.

Dates: 1983-December 2, 2003

Vehicle card, undated

 File — Box 14, Folder: 14
Series Description From the Series: This series is divided into two subseries. The first, films for which Shepard wrote the screenplay, includes: notes, annotated drafts, dialogue rewrites, publicity, correspondence, contracts, music notes, production notes and schedules. Of the films in this subseries, Silent Tongueincludes the most information (1 linear foot), followed by Far North(.25 linear feet.), Onibaba(.25 linear feet),...
Dates: undated

Vehicle card, “Now Filming”

 File — Box 17, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: This series is divided into two subseries. The first, films for which Shepard wrote the screenplay, includes: notes, annotated drafts, dialogue rewrites, publicity, correspondence, contracts, music notes, production notes and schedules. Of the films in this subseries, Silent Tongueincludes the most information (1 linear foot), followed by Far North(.25 linear feet.), Onibaba(.25 linear feet),...
Dates: 1982-1992

Venue your Arts and Entertainment Guide newspaper with an article on Bubonicon 48 and an excerpt on Joe Lansdale, September 01, 2016

 File — Box 2509, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Archival materials following the life and career of an American writer, author, martial arts expert, and martial arts instructor Joe R. Lansdale. Majority of the materials in this collection are movie scripts of Christmas with the Dead; Christmas of the Dead 2; and episode scripts of Hap and Leonard. Included are floppy disks; Convention brochures and schedules; printed emails and letters to Joe Lansdale; convention passes; newspaper clippings; and proclamations, 2003-2016.

Dates: September 01, 2016

VHS tape “Where the Music Began” starring Willie Nelson, undated

 Item — Box 1045
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Variety of material including CDs, LPs, t-shirt and caps, posters, magazines, newspapers and newspaper clippings, drafts and manuscripts of work, photos, correspondence, music announcements and musician press kits, notes and notebooks, maps, brochures and other artifacts. Majority of material was not in files or labeled; file titles are in quotation marks when present.

Dates: undated

VHS tapes (5), 1987-1993

 File — Box 23, Folder: 1-2
Contents

“Books and Company” (October 1994); “Books and Company –Ron Querry, #221”; “On Assignment, #2005” (November 4 and 7, 1987); “RQ/Sherman Alexie/Annie Hausen-Reading: Seattle” (11/1992); “Houston Live,” “On Assignment,” (11/4/1987) and “Arizona Illustrated” (7/15/1993)

Dates: 1987-1993

VHS Videocassette of film transfer with visual time code, second cut, January 28, 1988

 File — Box 14, Folder: 20
Series Description From the Series: This series is divided into two subseries. The first, films for which Shepard wrote the screenplay, includes: notes, annotated drafts, dialogue rewrites, publicity, correspondence, contracts, music notes, production notes and schedules. Of the films in this subseries, Silent Tongueincludes the most information (1 linear foot), followed by Far North(.25 linear feet.), Onibaba(.25 linear feet),...
Dates: January 28, 1988

VHS Videocassette of film transfer with visual time code, transfer number four, March 4, 1988

 File — Box 15, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: This series is divided into two subseries. The first, films for which Shepard wrote the screenplay, includes: notes, annotated drafts, dialogue rewrites, publicity, correspondence, contracts, music notes, production notes and schedules. Of the films in this subseries, Silent Tongueincludes the most information (1 linear foot), followed by Far North(.25 linear feet.), Onibaba(.25 linear feet),...
Dates: March 4, 1988

Vicinanza Agency, John Hawkins Associates

 File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series:

The series includes subseries of certificates, legal documents (including publisher correspondence), financial (limited financial documents), notes/story ideas (may provide insight into story generation process), personal papers (includes contacts and calendars), publicity (primarily interviews), readings, and general correspondence (identified by individual or sorted chronologically).

Dates: 1982-2004

Vietnam War Coverage for True Magazine, 1967-1989

 Series
Series Description

Included in this series are materials from Flynn’s tenure as a war correspondent for True magazine. This series is comprised of handwritten notes, clippings, military records, Vietnamese money, and other related ephemera.

Dates: 1967-1989

Volador reading typescript, October 6, 1995

 File — Box 11, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: Many of the short stories represented in this series were published in short story compilations Motel Chronicles(1982) and Cruising Paradise(1996). The series has been arranged by those compilation titles. Volador was a working title for Cruising Paradise; those files immediately precede the files labeled Cruising Paradise. The...
Dates: October 6, 1995

Volador/Cruising Paradise (1989-1998)

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: Many of the short stories represented in this series were published in short story compilations Motel Chronicles(1982) and Cruising Paradise(1996). The series has been arranged by those compilation titles. Volador was a working title for Cruising Paradise; those files immediately precede the files labeled Cruising Paradise. The...
Dates: 1989-1998

Voyager (1991)

 Sub-subseries
Series Description From the Series: This series is divided into two subseries. The first, films for which Shepard wrote the screenplay, includes: notes, annotated drafts, dialogue rewrites, publicity, correspondence, contracts, music notes, production notes and schedules. Of the films in this subseries, Silent Tongueincludes the most information (1 linear foot), followed by Far North(.25 linear feet.), Onibaba(.25 linear feet),...
Dates: 1989-1998