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Authors, American -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1271 Collections and/or Records:

Title pages

 File — Box 2, Folder: 4-5
Series Description From the Series:

This series contains documents pertaining to Flynn’s novels North to Yesterday, In the House of Our Lord, and The Last Klick. Also included in this series are materials related to Flynn’s published memoir A Personal War in Vietnam. Included are various draft typescripts, galleys, and plate proofs.

Dates: 1965-1967

Titled sketches (also includes 1989 journal), 1989, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 10
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: 1989, undated

Tooth of Crime (1972)

 Sub-Series
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

Torino Film Festival catalog, undated

 File — Box 1684, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Additional material for the Joe R. Lansdale archive. This donation includes drafts for Zeppelins West, Sunset and Sawdust, and Vanilla Ride. This donation also includes international publications that contain advertisements or information about Joe R. Lansdale.

Dates: undated

Torn Away”-Page proofs for “Torn Away,” and a letter from John Helfers, June 10, 2009

 File — Box 1460, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Articles, newspapers, correspondence, drafts, magazines, posters, badges, press releases, reviews, and books make up this collection from Joe R. Lansdale.

Dates: June 10, 2009

“Tornado Story” (photocopy of manuscript), 1956

 File — Box 3, Folder: 7
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: 1956

"Tornado Story”: Tornado Journal (notes regarding development of tornado story), 1986-1991

 File — Box 3, Folder: 8
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: 1986-1991

Tornadoes and clouds (13) - including Mammatus clouds, Laminar showers around rotating supercell, Wall cloud, Supercell near Archer City with curtain cloud going into funnel by hidden rainshower, Vernon tornado, 1983, Big merocyclone near Oklahoma Union Power Plant, Blue Norther, Strange Clouds, Roll cloud, Rainbow lensing effect near Graham, Looking up at storm tower of Archer City supercell, Supercell, 1983, undated

 File — Box 4, Folder: 14
Series Description From the Series:

Color 3.5”x5” snapshots taken and annotated by Hauptman document people (including Hauptman’s brother and father), places (including Wichita Falls and the Oklahoma Union Power Plant), and various tornadoes and cloud formations. Includes one 11x14 photograph.

Dates: Other: 1983, undated

Torso: Revue de Cinema de Genre, French publication, includes interview with Lansdale, 2013

 File — Box 1862, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Additional material for the Joe R. Lansdale archive, donated by Joe R. Lansdale. This donation contains drafts and proofs for novels and short stories, correspondence, clippings, international publications featuring articles about Lansdale, badges, memorabilia, and numerous publications and promotional items from conventions and events in which Lansdale participated.

Dates: 2013

Trade book cover art sample

 File — Box 7, Folder: 7
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

Travel memo 123 for Kasey Lansdale, attached with a note (Kasey is a country singer in Hap and Leonard season 2 episode 5), November 05, 2016

 File — Box 2509, Folder: 29
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: November 05, 2016

True West (1980)

 Sub-Series
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

Twenty 17” x 11” flyers for June 8th book signing at Threadgills An Epic Life: Willie Nelson, June 8

 Item
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: June 8

Two audiocassettes-“Freezer Fireworks,” recording of “Cold Day in July”, 2013

 File — Box 1862, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Additional material for the Joe R. Lansdale archive, donated by Joe R. Lansdale. This donation contains drafts and proofs for novels and short stories, correspondence, clippings, international publications featuring articles about Lansdale, badges, memorabilia, and numerous publications and promotional items from conventions and events in which Lansdale participated.

Dates: 2013

Two audiocassettes of Dino’s music, undated

 File — Box 17, 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: undated

Two bound copies of the uncorrected advance proof of An Epic Life, undated

 File — Box 1094, Folder: 10
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

Two color photographs, taped together, unidentified, but presumed to be taken on the set of Thunderheart, undated

 File — Box 18, Folder: 18
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

Two copies of Bubonicon 48 programs and schedules, attached to one is a yellow paper that says “Welcome to an hour of cheese”, August 26, 2016 - August 28, 2016

 File — Box 2509, Folder: 35
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: August 26, 2016 - August 28, 2016

Two copies of “The Death of Bernadette Lefthand.” Signed by Ron Querry, undated

 Item — Map-case 16
Series Description From the Series:

This series includes images of Ron Querry, newspapers with articles by and about Ron Querry, and a book jacket proof for Le Dernier Pow Wow (The Death of Bernadette Lefthand). This series also contains posters for Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association events, signed publicity posters for The Death of Bernadette Lefthand, and posters signed with inscriptions by Larry L. King and Molly Ivins.

Dates: undated