Screenwriters -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3419 Collections and/or Records:
The Cowboy Way, 1986 - 1993
Sub-Series
Sub-Series Description
This started as a rewrite of Pistoleers--"My first couple of drafts were set in New York City--then Crocodile Dundee came out and the studio asked me to reset the story in Washington, D. C. to avoid comparison. Against my better judgment I agreed to give it a try and the whole thing (meaning the writing) went downhill after that." Bill Wittliff, February 16, 1989. Includes notes by Wittliff's assistant at the time, Connie Todd.
Dates:
1986 - 1993
The Crazy Water Golf Club – notes, draft fragments, research
File — Box 30, Folder: 21
Series Description
From the Series:
The series is composed of two sub-series Published and Unpublished material. Published material starts with the first short story Shrake published, in 1959, and ending with his last novel to be published, in 2006, this sub-series is arranged chronologically according to publication date. It contains handwritten, typewritten and computer-generated drafts, proofs of all kinds, correspondence, contracts, promotional materials, research files, and press clippings. The book with the...
Dates:
1965-2009, undated
“The Creative Faculty”, September 1990
File — Box 44, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates:
September 1990
“The Double Standard” , March 1959
File — Box 2, Folder: 11
Series Description
From the Series:
The series is composed of two sub-series Published and Unpublished material. Published material starts with the first short story Shrake published, in 1959, and ending with his last novel to be published, in 2006, this sub-series is arranged chronologically according to publication date. It contains handwritten, typewritten and computer-generated drafts, proofs of all kinds, correspondence, contracts, promotional materials, research files, and press clippings. The book with the...
Dates:
March 1959
The Dublin Project, 1998-1999
File — Box 126, Folder: 9
Series Description
From the Series:
Shrake kept subject files on a wide variety of topics, often having to do with ideas for writing projects. These files make up the Subject Files sub-series and are the bulk of the Research series.They are arranged alphabetically by subject. Also included in the Research series are the Notes and Notebooks sub-series, and books and general research. The series is arranged chronologically by sub-series
Dates:
1998-1999
“The Far Side of Jericho” screenplay by Crumley and Rob Sullivan, October 4, 2004
File — Box 1890, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
October 4, 2004
“The Far Side of Jericho” screenplay: incomplete draft, undated
File — Box 1890, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
“The Far Side of Jericho” screenplay: multiple drafts, undated
File — Box 1890, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
“The Far Side of Jericho” screenplay: white production draft, April 1, 2005
File — Box 1890, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
April 1, 2005
“The Final Country” draft, undated
File — Box 1891, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
“The Final Country” draft, undated
File — Box 1891, Folder: 11-12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
“The Final Country” draft; includes editorial notes, undated
File — Box 1891, Folder: 9-10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
“The Final Country” incomplete draft, undated
File — Box 1891, Folder: 14-15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
“The Final Country” manuscript given to publisher , undated
File — Box 1891, Folder: 16-17
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
“The Final Country” multiple incomplete drafts, undated
File — Box 1891, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...
Dates:
undated
The Fire in Jeremy’s Lap, undated
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:
undated
The Friend of Carlos Monzon, 2005-2010, undated, 2005-2010, undated
Sub-Series
Series Description
From the Series:
Again, this series is divided into Produced and Unproduced material.The sub-series of produced works is arranged by production date. The bulk of the sub-series consists of Pancho Villa’s Wedding Day, which, after Shrake turned it from a film script into a play script, underwent more incarnations, including as a musical. Numerous, corrected drafts are included, from 1977 to 1994, when he stopped revising it. The play was staged in 1984. The...
Dates:
2005-2010, undated
The Game for a Lifetime, 1995-1996, undated
Sub-subseries
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Though essentially consisting of only three projects, all published, this sub-series contains a voluminous amount of research on its subjects, especially Willie Nelson. Included in the Willie materials are numerous tapes and transcripts of interviews Shrake and others did with Nelson and his acquaintances. Also included are clipping files on Nelson and country music going back to 1978 (when Shrake was writing the Songwriter screenplay), and many files of...
Dates:
1995-1996, undated
“The Gates of Time–my second novel”, contains–draft and notes; first page signed by Barrett , 1958-2008
File — Box 1074, Folder: 3
Dates:
1958-2008
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San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
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The Wittliff Collections
7th Floor, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
Wittliff_Ref@txstate.edu
7th Floor, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
Wittliff_Ref@txstate.edu