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Authors, American -- Texas -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4995 Collections and/or Records:

Leatherface: Chainsaw III (dedicated to Lansdale), David J. Schow

 File — Box 4, Folder: 9
Series Description From the Series: This series is divided into two subseries. The first represents scripts written by Lansdale, including Dead in the West, Drive in Date, Drive By, and Batman: Perchance to Dream. The Batman files represent the development of a script for an animated teleplay. They include Lansdale's teleplay, revisions by other writers and storyboards The second subseries...
Dates: 1990-1992

Lee Goerner and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., includes royalty statements and contract, 1978, 1984-1985, undated

 File — Box 16, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: Within this series is correspondence relating to Harrigan's writing. The letters range from requests for articles from magazines and journals to letters of interest from agents and publishers, "Letters to the Editor" forwarded to Harrigan from Texas Monthly, letters from other writers and friends, fan mail, and correspondence from organizations like the Texas Institute of Letters, of which Harrigan is a former president. The series is arranged...
Dates: 1978, 1984-1985, undated

Leftover passages and book notes

 File — Box 2, Folder: 9
Series Description From the Series: The Monograph series includes research notes, typed manuscripts, galley proofs, printed materials, correspondence, and other materials chronicling Graves’ literary contributions from his earliest short stories to his more recent essays and memoir. Materials from all of his books are included. Many of these materials were annotated by Graves with personal comments when he donated the materials to Bill Wittliff.Manuscript materials relating to the books Graves is credited as writing...
Dates: 1957-1991, undated

Legal documents

 File — Box 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donley Watt Papers span the years from 1970 to 2004. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, notes, drafts, and computer discs. The bulk of the papers is focused on the writings of his published works from 1994 to 2004: Can You Get There From Here; The Journal of Hector Rabinal; Haley, Texas 1959; Reynolds; and ...
Dates: Publication: 2002

Legal documents

 File — Box 15, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Donley Watt Papers span the years from 1970 to 2004. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, notes, drafts, and computer discs. The bulk of the papers is focused on the writings of his published works from 1994 to 2004: Can You Get There From Here; The Journal of Hector Rabinal; Haley, Texas 1959; Reynolds; and ...
Dates: Publication: 1999

Legal documents including John Graves birth certificate, undated

 File — Box 1855, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves includes his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his latter years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates: undated

Legal documents/contracts

 File — Box 20, Folder: 11
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: undated

Legal & Financial, 1946-1976

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks, legal papers, financial papers, photographs, journals, objects and academic records make up the majority of the materials in this series. Graves’ academic career is well documented through grade reports and written recommendations, class notes from undergraduate and graduate school, and his Columbia University Master’s thesis on William Faulkner. Of particular interest in this series is the notebook Graves used while traveling in Europe and his journal of a trip down the Rio...
Dates: 1946-1976

Legendary Stardust Cowboy, September 9, 1976

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 17
Series Description From the Series:

The majority of phonographs in this series are from Patoski's personal collection, but some were sent to him as promotional material. The audio cassettes are mostly non-professional recordings of music, and a few are of interviews with musicians. A relatively large portion of the audio cassettes are of the band Joe "King" Carrasco, which Patoski managed during the 1980s.

Dates: September 9, 1976

Legends of the Fall screenplay by Bill Wittliff - first draft, 1990

 File — Box 45, Folder: 9
Series Description From the Series: This series consists mainly of draft photocopies and printouts of other people’s novels, essays, screenplays and poetry. Also included are correspondence, clippings, research, notes and page proofs. A handful are essays written about Graves, but the majority of the files are creative works that Graves has proofread or for which he has offered promotional comments.The typescript "A Texas Rancher in Durango, Mexico" may not be viewed without permission from John Graves or Bill...
Dates: 1990

Lentz, Fleet, 1995-2004, undated

 File — Box 27, Folder: 5-6
Series Description From the Series: The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates: 1995-2004, undated

Leonard - Lipscomb, 1991-2004, undated

 File — Box 27, Folder: 7
Series Description From the Series: The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates: 1991-2004, undated

Leroi Bros 1st Demo

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 18
Series Description From the Series:

The majority of phonographs in this series are from Patoski's personal collection, but some were sent to him as promotional material. The audio cassettes are mostly non-professional recordings of music, and a few are of interviews with musicians. A relatively large portion of the audio cassettes are of the band Joe "King" Carrasco, which Patoski managed during the 1980s.

Dates: 1975-1992, undated

"Lester & Cecil Bonnie & Clyde"; Photocopied original notes sorted into ziplock bags for Grover Lewis' unpublished memoir, "Goodbye If You Call That Gone" , undated

 File — Box 3666, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival material donated by Rae Lewis relating to the life, writing career, and death of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly journalist, Grover Lewis’ dating 1962-2015. Materials include extensive notes, research materials, correspondence, publishing contracts and manuscript drafts for Lewis’ unpublished memoir, “Goodbye If You Call That Gone” and unpublished novel, “Code of the West”, the posthumous anthology, Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, drafts of unproduced...
Dates: undated

"Lester"; Photocopied original notes sorted into Ziplock bags for Grover Lewis' unpublished memoir, "Goodbye If You Call That Gone" , undated

 File — Box 3666, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival material donated by Rae Lewis relating to the life, writing career, and death of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly journalist, Grover Lewis’ dating 1962-2015. Materials include extensive notes, research materials, correspondence, publishing contracts and manuscript drafts for Lewis’ unpublished memoir, “Goodbye If You Call That Gone” and unpublished novel, “Code of the West”, the posthumous anthology, Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, drafts of unproduced...
Dates: undated

Letter and clipping from Arthur Ramirez, March 14, 1987

 File — Box 33, Folder: 16
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: March 14, 1987

Letter announcing the new Time Inc. Sport magazine, Sports Illustrated, 1954. The reverse side of the letter contains Grave’s notes on bullfights, 1954

 File — Box 1854, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves includes his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his latter years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates: 1954

Letter from Philip Montgomery with “Answers to Interrogatories”, 2003

 File — Box 1854, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves includes his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his latter years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates: 2003

Letter to Councilwoman Ruth Calanter from Rae and Grover Lewis regarding support for Beyond Baroque and poetry in Los Angeles, July 23, 1984

 File — Box 3770, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival material donated by Rae Lewis relating to the life, writing career, and death of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly journalist, Grover Lewis’ dating 1962-2015. Materials include extensive notes, research materials, correspondence, publishing contracts and manuscript drafts for Lewis’ unpublished memoir, “Goodbye If You Call That Gone” and unpublished novel, “Code of the West”, the posthumous anthology, Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, drafts of unproduced...
Dates: July 23, 1984

Letter to Grover Lewis from David Minto, includes photocopy of a story in The New Yorker, March 30, 1995

 File — Box 3770, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series: Archival material donated by Rae Lewis relating to the life, writing career, and death of Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly journalist, Grover Lewis’ dating 1962-2015. Materials include extensive notes, research materials, correspondence, publishing contracts and manuscript drafts for Lewis’ unpublished memoir, “Goodbye If You Call That Gone” and unpublished novel, “Code of the West”, the posthumous anthology, Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, drafts of unproduced...
Dates: March 30, 1995