Literature

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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This small series contains four drafts of the fiction piece, “How To Live Forever,” first published in Land of the Permanent Wave.

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A film loosely based on Wittliff’s mother’s life about a young, divorced mother of two sons working as a telephone operator in small-town Texas during World War II. Starring Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, and Eric Roberts. Early drafts are titled "Nita, Henry and Harry."

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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.

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Lawson, Wayne, November 10, 1982

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Phillips, Jerrold, March 2, 1983

Berman, Lois, August 18, 1983

Cuyama Valley Exchange Club. August 29, 1983

Mitchell, Joni, circa 1983

Scope and Contents Rogers, S[Sam], April 13, 1984Gantcher, Neal(to Martin Licker), June 6, 1984Kirwin, Lynne (to Lois Berman), June 27, 1984Allen, Lewis (to Lois Berman), June 29, 1984Shewey, Don (to Lois Berman), July 12, 1984Shewey, Don, July 12, 1984Berman, Lois, July 17, 1984Allen, Lewis, July 17, 1984McCrum, Robert (to Lois Berman), August 23, 1984* restricted Shepard, Jesse, October 9, 1984...

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* restricted Shepard, Jesse, February 20, 1985

Ward, Melinda, February 28, 1985

Weiler, Robert S., June 28, 1985

Allen, Lewis, July 3, 1985

Sato, Suzanne, July 8, 1985

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* restricted Shepard, Jesse, February 2, 1986

Gotlieb, Howard, April 4, 1986. (Includes Boston University’s Shepard collection listing.)

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Klein, Don, April 25, 1988

Mark, Steven (to Martin Licker), June 7, 1988

Wenders, Wim, July 22, 1988

Crane, Joan, July 28, 1988

Crane, Joan, August 2, 1988

Wexler, Haskell, September 30, 1988

Wexler, Haskell, October 21, 1988

“Mom,” November 2, 1988

Bryer, Jackson, November 30, 1988

Daugherty, Pat, December 19, 1988

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Daniels, Barry, January 5, 1989

Berman, Lois, May 17, 1989. Includes “American Dreams” programs

Ford, Richard, August 10, 1989

Sinise, Gary, November 4, 1989

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Jewell, Cathy, October 18, 1990

Halpern, Daniel, October 25,1990

Jewell, Cathy, October 25, 1990

Hill, Steve, December 18, 1990