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Authors, American -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2670 Collections and/or Records:

Articles from Los Angeles Times about riots and troop enforcement, 1992

 File — Box 3008, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates: 1992

Articles from Los Angeles Times about slang, Black Church life, The Slums of Los Angeles, immigrants, and education, 1991-1992

 File — Box 3006, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates: 1991-1992

Articles from Los Angeles Times about violence from police force, riots, Rodney King case, Bush ordering troops to Los Angeles as a result of riots, 1992

 File — Box 3007, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates: 1992

Articles from Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, The Boot about urban youth and urban aid programs; riot violence and aftermath; gang life; and Bill Broyles, 1984-1992

 File — Box 3005, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates: 1984-1992

Articles from New York Times, Advertising Age Magazine, Newsweek about Bill Broyles, photos of Broyles, 1982-1984

 File — Box 2987, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates: 1982-1984

Articles from Newsweek Magazine, The New York Times, New York Post, Daily Mail, about Broyles’ resignation as Newsweek editor, 1984

 File — Box 2987, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates: 1984

Articles from The Roanoke Times, Houston Chronicles, San Antonio Express News, 2018

 File — Box 3115, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Donation by Joe Lansdale of the manuscript draft “Leather Maiden”; memorabilia from Comic Conventions; and articles in Texas Co-Op Power, The Roanoke Times, Houston Chronicles, and San Antonio Express News, 2008-2018.

Dates: 2018

Articles on Chaikin and Shepard

 File — Box 21, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series:

Topics include the publication of Shepard’s works in magazines and journals as excerpts, as well as in their entirety; correspondence with agent Lois Berman. Aside from general correspondence, this series also includes correspondence from Joseph Chaikin and Barry Daniels and correspondence from Shepard’s son, Jesse, as noted [Restricted]. For Shepard’s 40-year correspondence with Johnny Dark, see the Southwestern Writers Collection 106, The Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark Collection.

Dates: 1984-1989

Artifact: one pottery mug reads “Joe R. Lansdale Goh (?) ConQuest 39”, undated

 Item — Box 1059
Abstract From the Series:

Material includes manuscripts of work, some correspondence, comics featuring Lansdale’s work and his personal word processor.

Dates: undated

Artifacts, undated

 Series
Series Description

This series includes a harmonica owned by Hauptman.

Dates: undated

Artifacts, 1984, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents

This series contains a scrotal sac and an accompanying photograph of a calf being castrated. Also included are fan gifts, such as a “lefthand” charm, a “New Age” crystal, and artwork in beaded frame. In addition, this series contains a “Bullie Bag” and associated documentation.

Dates: 1984, undated

As published by Samuel French Inc., 1975

 File — Box 2, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series:

Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Hauptman’s plays, teleplay, screenplays, short stories, poetry, novel, articles and criticism are located in this series. Titles under each genre are filed alphabetically. Related correspondence, reviews, clippings, publicity, and playbills are filed after the draft or script for each title.

Dates: 1975

Assorted correspondence, undated

 File — Box 1093, Folder: 8-9
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

Assorted correspondence, undated

 File — Box 1095, Folder: 3
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

Assorted travel brochures and maps, undated

 File — Box 1093, 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

Assortment of newspaper sections and clippings; includes several foreign language pieces, undated

 File — Box 1083, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Material donated includes manuscripts, newspaper and magazine articles on Lansdale and four computer discs with emails that have been printed out. These emails are mainly related to work by Lansdale and include some personal correspondence. Books accessioned separately [see Accession 2008-152] and placed in the backlog.

Dates: undated

Atlantic Monthly, March 1975

 File — Box 3932, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival material donated by writer William Broyles, the bulk of the material is from 1965-2013. This addition includes many materials relating to his magazine career, including clippings documenting the founding of Texas Monthly, Broyles’ time as editor of Newsweek, and many of the articles he wrote for other publications. It also documents his film career, with many “progress files” for movies he wrote that include all correspondence documenting the project usually from inception to the...
Dates: March 1975

Auction Settlement Certficate, Cowboy research, 2003

 File — Box 2992, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series: This collection consists of archival materials relating to the career of screenplay writer and author, William (Bill) Broyles, Jr. from 1957-2014. Majority of the materials in the collection are research, notes, and drafts for Broyles’s screenplays for Khe Sanh, Spies, Emperor, and The Polar Express. The collection also includes annotated manuscript draft of Billy the Kid by David Killiam; screenplay drafts revised by Broyles of McFarland, Eragon, and Widowmaker; cassettes for China Beach;...
Dates: 2003

Audio book cover art proposals, undated

 File — Box 14, Folder: 1
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: undated

Audiocassette musical recording by Token Oldies

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

The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.

Dates: 1982-1999