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A. Apollo 13 (boxes 190-198): Broyles shares his first major motion picture writing credits with former Texas Monthly writer, Al Reinert. Based loosely upon Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell's novel Lost Moon co-written with Jeffrey Kluger, the 1995 film marks Broyles' first collaboration with director Ron Howard. The Apollo 13 series is arranged chronologically, reflecting the development of the project. The first subseries, correspondence (box 190), includes letters between Broyles and Michael Bostick, Broyles' assistant, Sheila Gallion, James Lovell, and Al Reinert. The next four subseries: research, notes, story development, and scripts (boxes 190-195), highlight Broyles and Reinert's writing process. Of note within the research files are the book proposal and typescript of Lost Moon. The scripts subseries includes multiple revisions of each draft of the screenplay. Following the scripts, there are a number of files relating to Broyles' and Reinert's WGA writers credit arbitration (boxes 195-196) that provide insight into the complex legalities of the craft. The final subseries of the Apollo 13 materials are production files, publicity materials, and awards. Broyles and Reinert were nominated for an Academy Award for their work, as well as a Golden Globe, a Pen Center USA West Literary Award, and a Writers Guild Award. Of interest in the awards subseries is a videotaped message of congratulations from Ron Howard (box 197), a celebratory bottle of champagne, and numerous letters of congratulations.

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• Administrative Assistant

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• Reviewer for the Texas Observer

Beverly Lowry was born August 10, 1938, in Memphis, Tennessee, and moved with her family at age six to Greenville, Mississippi. She attended the University of Mississippi (1956-58) and graduated with a B.A. from Memphis State University in 1960. She married Glenn Lowry in June 1960, and moved with him to Manhattan. There, she pursued acting and experimented in writing. After relocating to Houston in 1965, and sending the younger of her two sons to nursery school Lowry began to write stories, some of which blossomed into novels. Lowry began teaching fiction writing as an associate professor at the University of Houston in 1976, while also pursuing acting, and serving on boards for the Cultural Arts Council of Houston, and for Houston Festival. Her fiction writing has typically been set in Texas and Mississippi. Her first two novels, Come Back, Lolly Ray and Emma Blue were both set in Eunola, Mississippi a fictional town much like her hometown of Greenville. Her next three novels and one work of non-fiction were set in Texas, with her most recent novel, The Track of Real Desires, being again set in the fictional Eunola, Mississippi. The Lowrys lived just outside San Marcos along the San Marcos River from 1981-1991. One of the Lowrys' two sons, Peter, died in a hit-and-run accident on the highway from San Marcos to their home in 1984. This experience and other personal losses in the early 1980s "caused a marked change in the tone of Lowry's fiction. Gone is her unqualified faith in the future; present is a new preoccupation with fate or chance, even a hint that felicity may invite disaster," (Contemporary Southern Writers, St. James Press, 1999). These themes of isolation and alienation appear in The Perfect Sonya (1987), The Track of Real Desires (1994), and clearly in Crossed Over: A Murder, A Memoir (1992). Beginning in 1989, Lowry approached and visited convicted pickaxe murderer Karla Faye Tucker, on death row in Hunstville, Texas. Crossed Over relates the story of Karla Faye Tucker as well as some of Lowry's own personal story, resulting in "far more than the usual true-crime tale. Lowry interwove the story of her own troubled son with a chilling account of Tucker's dangerously out-of-control life to achieve an understanding of the human being behind an ostensibly inhuman act; her leap of imagination and empathy enabled her, at last, to make peace with Peter's death," (Texas Monthly, Feb. 2001). Lowry moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and currently teaches at George Mason University, in Virginia. She continues to write essays and non-fiction, and has been working on a biography of Madame C. J. Walker, the first African-American woman to become a self-made millionaire.

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• Photography Curator and Archivist, Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection

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• Writer

Archival materials following the career and personal life of writer, Christopher Cook, from 1952-2017. Included are research materials and drafts for Cook's works such as the novel Robbers, the story collection Screen Door Jesus & Other Stories, the novellas Storm and Cloven Tongues of Fire, and stories in the Tiger Ridge collection ("Lafayette Dugas", "Tiger Ridge Trilogy", "The Code"). Also included within the collection are correspondence; personal documents; photos of Cook through the years starting from childhood; Cook's poetry during grade school; Cook's articles in Texas Co-Op Power magazine, The Texas Observer, and other magazines and daily newspapers in Minnesota, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas, including feature columns and articles in The Beaumont Enterprise; research materials for non-fiction publications and books; speeches written for political leaders; travel journals and photos; personal journal; poetry; drawings and artwork; screenplays; and materials connected to a Robbers TV pilot. Box 2853 and parts of Box 2844 and Box 2845 are Restricted until 2025. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Cook's original descriptions.

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• CIO

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• Creator

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• Co - Founder of El Teatro Camepsino

Daughters Helen Graves and Sally Jackson also have a considerable amount of correspondence in this series. Fleet Lentz and Abe Rothberg each have multiple folders, making evident their important friendships with Graves. Another significant friendship documented in letters is that of Graves and Samuel Hynes, who have been close friends since their days together at Columbia University. These letters are arranged in two parts, one restricted and one not. Letters donated by Mr. Hynes himself for inclusion in the John Graves Papers are restricted from access until after the deaths of both gentlemen. There are also two other, unrelated letters placed at the end of the series that are restricted until 30 years after the death of Mr. Graves.

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• Director

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• President, Travis

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• Agent

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• Crook 's Agent

Gary Cartwright was born August 10, 1934 in Dallas, Texas, and raised in nearby Arlington. He received a B.A. in journalism and government from Texas Christian University in 1957. Cartwright reported the police beat for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1956 until he was hired away in 1958 to the Fort Worth Press, where he joined Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake in the sports department under legendary Texas sportswriter Blackie Sherrod. In 1960, Cartwright moved to the Dallas Times Herald as a sports reporter and in 1963 he joined the Dallas Morning News to write his own sports column. Cartwright's first book, a football novel entitled The Hundred Yard War, was published in 1967 at which point he left newspaper work to become a freelance writer. His work has appeared in The Texas Observer, Esquire, Saturday Review, Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly. Cartwright has been associated with Texas Monthly magazine since its inception in 1973. His articles range over various topics--crime, notable Texans, Texas culture, travel, sports and international travel. A collection of his Texas Monthly articles can be found in Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter. The true-crime books Blood Will Tell and Dirty Dealing began as articles for Texas Monthly. In 1988, Cartwright had a heart attack that required quintuple-bypass surgery. A suggestion by Governor Ann Richards to document changes in his life since the injury led to his latest book, HeartWiseGuy. Among the many honors Cartwright has received for his writing are the Texas Institute of Letters' Stanley Walker Award for Journalism for "The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk" (Texas Monthly, May 1977) and the Press Club of Dallas Katie Award for Best Magazine News Story for "The Work of the Devil" (Texas Monthly, June 1989). Cartwright has written screenplays in collaboration with Edwin (Bud) Shrake, including J. W. Coop (1972) and Another Pair of Aces (CBS-TV, 1990).

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• President and Owner of the Washington Redskins, ( 1932 - 1969 ), 1947

George Marshall, president and owner of the Washington Redskins, (1932-1969), 1947.

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• Secretary, Office of the Governor. Talking Points and FAQs Regarding

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• Creator

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• President, AFL

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• Texas Music Curator

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• Teacher

J. Frank Dobie, teacher, storyteller, folklorist, historian, and author, was born September 26, 1888 on a ranch in the South Texas brush country of Live Oak County. Raised in the toughening, physically bracing traditions of a remote ranching region, Dobie nonetheless developed an early love for language and literature. His mother encouraged reading, providing her children with mail-ordered books, and his father developed the boy's narrative sense with nightly readings of the King James version of the bible. Dobie's mother saw to it that he and his siblings were sent away to relatives in the small town of Alice so that they could obtain the requisite schooling to pursue higher education.

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• Writer

Born in El Paso, Jesús Salvador Treviño was raised in California and came of age as a college student just as the Chicano movement erupted in the late 1960s. He began documenting the movement with a Super 8 camera and soon became a full-time writer/director. He is the winner of numerous international film awards including two from the Directors Guild of America. His television directing credits include Law and Order Criminal Intent, Bones, ER, Criminal Minds, Third Watch, NYPD Blue, Resurrection Blvd., Crossing Jordan, The Practice, Nash Bridges, Star Trek Voyager, Babylon Five, Chicago Hope, Dawson's Creek, New York Undercover, Martial Law, The Pretender, The O.C. and many other prime time programs. He was Co-Executive Producer of the four-part PBS documentary series Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1997) and of SHOWTIME's Resurrection Blvd. (2000), the first prime-time Latino drama series on American television. He directed the successful pilot and created the artistic look of the series. In 1991, the Mexican feature film which he wrote and directed, Raices de Sangre (Roots of Blood), was included as one of the 25 most significant films of Latin American Cinema at the 36 th Annual International Film Festival of Valladolid, Spain. He has won numerous international film awards including (twice) the Directors Guild of America Award for best daytime drama and the Imagenes Lifetime Achievement Award. Treviño is also a noted writer and is the winner of American Book Award. He is the author of the short story collections, The Fabulous Sinkhole, The Skyscraper That Flew, Return to Arroyo Grande and the memoir Eyewitness: A Filmmaker's Memoir of the Chicano Movement, all published by Arte Publico Press.

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• Contributing Editor
• Co - Editor of the Texas Observer
• Co - Editors, the Texas / Observer
• Editor of the Texas Observer

Joe Holley is an award-winning author of several books, as well as a longtime journalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2017. Holley served as editor of the Texas Observer and was a staff writer for the Washington Post. As an editorial columnist, he wrote the the popular "Native Texan" column for the Houston Chronicle. Holley also worked as a speechwriter for former Texas Governor Ann Richards. His published books include Sutherland Springs: God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town, Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City, Hometown Texas, Slingin' Sam: the Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback to Ever Play the Game, and the novel, The Purse Bearer: A Novel of Love, Lust and Texas Politics. He was born and raised in Waco and received his bachelor's degree from Abilene Christian University and master's degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University. Listed below is an archival inventory of the Joe Holley Papers. Note that access to unprocessed materials is granted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the Archivist for details about access to the Curtis Papers 3552 7 Notebook - Joe Holley's story notes on intensive care nurseries, restaurants and bars in Dallas, TX and divorce leading to homelessness in women, no date 3552 37 Joe Holley's diplomas from the University of Texas, Austin (MA) and Columbia 3555 17 "Editorials 2013"; Printouts of Houston Chronicle editorials, 2013 3555 18 "Henry Flipper"; "Henry Flipper: Buffalo Soldier" by Joe Holley. Two (2) copies of Story with research materials and correspondence, 1991, no date 3555 19 "Farewell to Black Diamond" by Hank Chapman in Southwest Scene - article on rampaging circus elephant in Corsicana, Texas in 1929 3555 20 the New York Review of Books, Volume LXI, Number 15, October 9 th, 2014 3555 21 Clyde L. Holley - Obituary, Marshal & Marshall Funeral Directors (Joe Holley's uncle), 2010 3555 22 Houston Chronicle performance eReview for Joe Holley, 2010 3555 23 Email correspondence to Joe Holley, 2015

Joe R. Lansdale was born October 28, 1951 in Gladewater, Texas. A freelance writer since 1981, Lansdale has written horror, science fiction, westerns and mysteries. He has expressed a preference for short stories but has also written novels, comic scripts, screenplays and stage plays. He has edited several short story anthologies and has contributed to numerous genre magazines. All his works are informed by his life-long immersion in the atmosphere of deep East Texas. Lansdale was awarded the Bram Stoker award for "Night They Missed the Horror Show" in 1989 and for "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" in 1990.

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• Redskins Head Coach

John Graves is one of the most important Southwestern writers. Three of his early short stories were collected in the O. Henry award series. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1963 and a Rockefeller fellowship in 1972. Numerous awards and recognitions have followed him throughout his writing career. Although he is generally considered a regional and nature writer due to his settings and subjects, his style, which incorporates fiction, folklore, autobiography, philosophy, and observation, defies provincial or topical boundaries. Perhaps the best example of this is Goodbye to a River, which has never gone out of print since first being published in 1960, and is still celebrated for its keen ruminations on the historical, attitudinal and natural worlds that intertwined around Graves as he canoed down the river.

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Abstract: Printed material, correspondence, financial and legal documentation, handwritten notes, books and other published material, photographs, artifacts, and sound recordings document the education, teaching careers, and personal and financial lives of Jovita González Mireles and Edmundo E. Mireles. Jovita González was born near the Texas-Mexico border in Roma, Texas, on January 18, 1904. Her father was a teacher and her mother a housewife. Her family moved to San Antonio so that the children could be educated in English. After high school, González earned a teaching certificate and taught in Rio Grande City while earning money for college. She attended The University of Texas at Austin for a year, but due to a lack of funds returned to San Antonio to attend Our Lady of the Lake College where she was able to obtain a scholarship. In the summers she continued to study Spanish at The University of Texas, and it was in the summer of 1925 that she met J. Frank Dobie. Dobie shared González's interest in the folklore of the Texas-Mexican border and encouraged her to write down the stories. She did so, and some were published in the Folklore Publications and the Southwest Review. Dobie was not only supportive of González's writing, but he provided references for her scholarships, underwrote bank loans for her, and he and his wife invited her to dinners in their home. González was also very involved with the Texas Folklore Society which Dobie helped resurrect in 1922. She gave several lectures at the annual meetings and published articles in some of the journals. With Dobie's endorsement, González was elected to served as the Texas Folklore Society's vice president in 1928, and as president for two terms from 1930 to 1932. After receiving her B.A. from Our Lady of the Lake in 1927, she taught for two years at Saint Mary's Hall, an Episcopal school for girls, until she was awarded the Lapham Scholarship to conduct research along the border and to work on an M.A. at The University of Texas. Her M.A. research resulted in a Rockefeller grant award in 1934. It was during this time that she may have started work on her novel Caballero which was published posthumously in 1996. While at UT Austin, González met her future husband, Edmundo E. Mireles, who was born in La Ciudad de Hidalgo del Parral, Mexico on December 28, 1905. He was raised by his grandmother in Sacramento, Coahuila, Mexico and came to the United States at the age of seven to live with his father in San Antonio. He later returned to Mexico with his father to fight in the Mexican Revolution, and was wounded. Back in Texas he attended the San Antonio Junior College, and The University of Texas at Austin where he received a B.A., with a Greek major and Latin minor. He obtained his masters in Spanish in 1953 from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. E.E. Mireles and Jovita González were married in 1935 in San Antonio, and then moved to Del Rio where he was principal of San Felipe High School and she taught English. In 1939, they relocated to Corpus Christi where Mr. Mireles organized the Spanish program in the elementary grades of the public schools. Working together, Mr. and Ms. Mireles wrote two sets of books, Mi libro español and El español elemental, for the teaching of Spanish in the grade schools. In 1943, Mr. Mireles helped to create the Pan American Council dedicated to the study of Spanish, Latin America and its people. The Council supported the public schools in the organization and functioning of their own Pan American Clubs. Mr. Mireles also served as president of the LULAC Council No. 1. Ms. González Mireles continued until her retirement to teach Spanish and Texas History at W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi. During this time she also directed pastorelas, pageants and Christmastime posadas with Mexican children in the community. E.E. Mireles is considered by many to be the father of bilingual education, because of his role as an advocate for teaching Spanish in the public schools of Corpus Christi. Both Mr. and Ms. Mireles continued as educators and advocates of Spanish language teaching in public schools until they retired. Jovita González Mireles died in 1983, and E.E. Mireles died in 1987. Further papers belonging to Edmundo E. Mireles and Jovita González Mireles can be found at the University of Texas at Austin in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection.

Judy Alter began donating her papers to the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections in 1993. Alter writes for both adults and young readers and she is best known for her books on women and girls of the American West. Among her many honors are "best book" awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Western Writers of America, and the Western Heritage (Wrangler) Awards from the National Cowboy Museum. In 1996 the Dallas Morning News named her one of 100 Women Who Have Left Their Mark on Texas. In 2005 the Western Writers of America gave Alter the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement. Listed below is an archival inventory of the Judy Alter holdings. Note that access to unprocessed materials is granted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the Archivist for details about access to the Judy Alter Collection. BOX # 1053 folder 9 Dead Space by Judy Alter, marked "first draft February 2007 with handwritten notes

- notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, material from Tucker's trial, court reporter's notes and other miscellaneous materials (in 9 folders) - numerous letters from Karla Faye Tucker to Beverly Lowry and various newspaper clippings that feature articles on Tucker, dates range from 1991 - 1997 Magazine's which feature articles written by Beverly Lowry - The Oxford American dated Jan/Feb 1997, article titled "A Book of Our Own" on page 86 - Arkansas Review dated August 2003, article titled "I wanted to Create My Own Place": An Interview with Beverly Lowry on page 129 - "Texas A&M University Press" Spring and Summer 2004, features book by Lowry titled The Perfect Sonya - The New Yorker dated February 9, 1998, article titled "The Good Bad Girl" on page 60 - "Knopf"-publisher of Borzoi Books dated Spring 2003, features book by Lowry titled Her Dream of Dreams - Preservation dated May/June 1988, article titled "A Mansion for Madam C.J. Walker" on page 62 Correspondence - various letters from Pat Rotter, Literary Agent, to Beverly Lowry, 1974 - 1976 - various letters from The Viking Press to Beverly Lowry, 1980-1986

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• Lead Archivist

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• Kindle Reader Cover

- Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry. Fragment of a typescript, n.d. 62 typed pages. Inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "A fragment of Draft #1, since destroyed -- LMc" - "School Song" - a screenplay written by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich. First draft dated June 10, 1970. McMurtry and Bogdanovich received an Academy Award nomination for this screenplay. Inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "This is a titled I came up with for The Last Picture Show that Columbia would not be persuaded to use. L. McMurtry" 154 pages with handwritten additions and corrections by both McMurtry and bogdanovich. - 8x10 b/w photo of Larry McMurtry in cord jacket leaning up against railing, signed by McMurtry. - "Southwest Review", Spring 1961. Includes Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry. This story was excerpted from Horseman, Pass By before the novel was published. Inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "For Bill This -- apart from college magazines, was my first published fiction. - The Desert Rose by Larry McMurtry. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983, first edition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "For the Wittliffs -- The result of 2 days in Las Vagas. L." Accompanied by a label hand-addressed by McMurtry to the Wittliffs form his bookstore, Book Up, in Washington, D.C. - Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1961. First edition of McMurtry's first book. Hardbound, dust jacket. Signed by McMurtry on the end paper. Further inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "This is about the sixth draft -- I revised the book to death. L. McMurtry" - Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry. Harper & Row , Publishers, New York, Evanston, and London, 1963. First edition. Hardbound dust jacket. First inscribed by McMurtry thus: "For Bill Wittliff with very best wishes. Larry McMurtry". Later inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "This as I always say is the book the romantics love." L. McMurtry. - Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1975. First edition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "This is the book I remember most painfully as I wrote it in Europe on an Italian typewriter. - Somebody's Darling by Larry McMurtry. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1978. First edition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Signed by McMurtry. Further inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "I've never really liked the book but Diane Keaton likes it and who would dispute her? L. McMurtry" - Texasville by Larry McMurtry. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987. First edition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Signed by McMurtry. Further inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "The true 1st -- a grim vision - The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. The Dial Press, New York, 1966. First edition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Signed by McMurtry. Further inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "This is the one made into the movie most likely to be colorized." - Film Flam by Larry McMurtry. Simon and Schuster, New York,1987. First edition. Hardbound, dust jacket. This book is primarily a compilation of the preceding film reviews from "American Film", "New York", and "Colonial Times". Inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "The casual mutterings of my youth. - New York magazine, April 29, 1974. Vol. 7, No. 17. Features article by Larry McMurtry titled "Approaching Cheyenne ... Leaving Lumet. Oh, Pshaw!" on page 64. Inscribed by McMurtry as follows: "Then became a cheap book called Wring (?) -- Then merely became a bee in Mr. Lumet's bonnet. L. McMurtry" - typed interview made with McMurtry along with annotated pages of a manuscript titled Home Town Boy story about McMurtry by Lowry and a newspaper clipping about McMurtry, 1998

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• Archivist

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• Creator

- early history and research materials. Materials include; photocopies of the 1910 U.S. census records, photocopies of pages from the Pennsylvania Negro Business Directory-1910, photocopies of typed letters from/to Madame Walker to/from the Honorable Booker T. Washington dated 1910, numerous photocopies of various old newspaper clippings (circa 1910) most feature Madame Walker and her hair care products,

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• Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas

Elizabeth Crook was born in 1960 in Nacogdoches and raised in San Marcos, Washington DC, where her father directed VISTA under Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Australia, where her father served as ambassador. Ms. Crook went on to Baylor University, and received her B.A. in English from Rice University. In 1985, she began intensely researching what would become a lengthy article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (July, 1990), focused on the 1828 marriage of Tennessee governor Sam Houston and the 20 year old Eliza Allen. This article became the touchstone of her best-selling first novel, Raven's Bride, published in 1991 by Doubleday. The 750 page manuscript was accepted by the publisher after fifteen publishing houses had rejected it; Crook's soon-to-be editor at Doubleday, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, called her personally to accept it. Award-winning journalist and author Bill Moyers writes that in Raven's Bride, Crook "brought to life the great events of Texas past and turned them into a robust novel. The characters, the descriptions, and the drama are a panorama that only a fine historian or inspired novelist could handle to the reader's delight, and Ms. Crook is both." In 1993, Ms. Crook was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. A year later, she published her second novel, Promised Lands: A Novel of the Texas Rebellion, also edited by Ms. Onassis at Doubleday. "At a time when war is sanitized, televised, and intellectualized, Crook's most important contribution may be her reminder of the insanity and sheer waste of it all… Though she probably did not intend it that way, her account of the slaughter at Goliad is one of the most powerful anti-war statements I've read" (Joyce Slater, Houston Post). Ms. Crook currently lives in Austin, with her husband, Marc Lewis, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas, and their son.

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• Marketing & Promotions Coordinator

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• French Artist

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• Events Coordinator
• Tour Coordinator

Monday, Monday [working titles: Tempera, Painted Over, Lizard Mountain, Forty Years After Monday]

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• Creator

Naomi Shihab Nye, acclaimed poet who also writes essays, songs, novels, and children's books; edits poetry anthologies, and teaches poetry writing to youth and adults, was born in 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri to Aziz Shihab, a journalist and immigrant from Palestine, and Miriam Shihab, a Montessori teacher with a fine arts degree in painting. Forty-eight document boxes and seven oversized boxes containing drafts, diaries and notebooks, photographic material, correspondence, and published material document the working life of poet, writer, and educator Naomi Shihab Nye (1952- ). Naomi Shihab Nye, acclaimed poet who also writes essays, songs, novels, and children's books; edits poetry anthologies, and teaches poetry writing to youth and adults, was born in 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri to Aziz Shihab, a journalist and immigrant from Palestine, and Miriam Shihab, a Montessori teacher with a fine arts degree in painting. Nye has won numerous awards, including her first major recognition for Hugging the Jukebox as a National Poetry Series selection in 1982, critical acclaim for her 2011 short story collection There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories, Best Books for Young Adults several times from the American Library Association, and the gratitude of San Antonio Independent School District teachers for her poetry teaching packets. Nye is a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and Poetry Foundation Young People's Poet Laureate for 2019-2021. Nye referred to herself as an "itinerant writer," referring to the twelve years from 1974-1986 she spent teaching poetry in schools around Texas, while also writing and publishing. Nye lists her early influences, starting at age five, as Carl Sandberg, Margaret Wise Brown, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Louisa May Alcott. High School and college influences include Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Gertrude Stein, and William Stafford; the last of whom Nye was able to work with, and she became friends with Stafford and his family. Nye began writing early in life, publishing poetry at age 7 and continuing throughout her childhood. She wrote a column for teens in high school, and while teaching across Texas and the country she continued to write and publish. While teaching children poetry during the Gulf War, which began in 1991, Nye read the students poetry written by Iraqi writers, and ultimately edited This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World, which includes 129 poets from 68 countries. Her young adult novel Going Going, 2005, is an attempt to recognize and document her neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas as it changed due to gentrification. This attention to the connection of people across the world, and their local daily realities, imbues Nye's work. For Nye, the best audience is children, and she does not recognize a distinction between adult and children's writing. While writing poetry for adults in the 1970s and 1980s, Nye searched for cross-over texts to use with the young people she was teaching. In the 1990s her editor Virginia Duncan suggested she write for children, which she did with Sitti's Secrets, and continues today. To date, Nye has published audio recordings of songs she wrote and sang; children's books, including picture books, poetry, poetry anthologies, and young adult novels; written and edited poetry for adults; served as a columnist for Organica and poetry editor for Texas Observer; and contributed to numerous poetry anthologies and periodicals.

"This is the frist draft, done with Peter Bogdanovich, for John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda, in 1972 -- it became the novel Lonesome Dove -- L. McMurtry". 286 typed pages with handwritten corrections and additions. located on display in the SWWC room 10/2/2003

Ronald B. Querry (1943- ) is an internationally-acclaimed, American author and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Querry was in the Marine Corps during the 1960s and, after his term of service, studied English at the University of Oklahoma. Querry later earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico in 1975. His dissertation, titled "The American Prison as Portrayed in Popular Motion Pictures of the 1930's," examined myths and realities in twenty-one popular motion pictures. Querry has taught and lectured at colleges and universities across the United States and served as writer-in-residence at the University of Oklahoma and the Amerind Foundation in Arizona. In addition, he has taught and lectured at the Seminar in Native American Studies at Comune di Spello, Provincia di Prugia, Italy; Étonnants Voyageurs, Festival International du Livre, Saint-Malo, France; and at a chapter of PEN International in Mexico. In addition to being an accomplished author and scholar, Querry has also served as the Associate Dean of Education at the Penitentiary of New Mexico, as a rancher, and a racing official for the American Quarter Horse Association. Of mixed Native American and European American descent, many of Querry's writings depict the intersection of white and native worlds. He is the author of two novels, The Death of Bernadette Lefthand, winner of the 1993 Border Regional Library Association Southwest Book Award and the 1994 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award, and Bad Medicine, both of which have been translated and published in French and German. Querry is also the author of the juvenile non-fiction work Discrimination: Native Americans Struggle for Equality, a memoir entitled I See by My Get-Up, and a collection of works titled Growing Old at Willie Nelson's Picnic and Other Sketches of Life in the Southwest. He has also contributed numerous articles to newspapers and magazines.

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• Editor
• Co - Editor
• Editor of the Texas Observer

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• Creator

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• Writer

Stephen Harrigan was born on October 5, 1948, and grew up in Oklahoma City, Abilene and Corpus Christi. After receiving a degree in English from The University of Texas at Austin in 1971, Harrigan briefly attended graduate school and worked as a yardman and as an ad writer for the University Co-op. He contributed articles to a number of magazines, including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire and The Texas Observer. He became a regular writer for Texas Monthly shortly after its inception and co-founded and edited Lucille, a journal of poetry, which published 10 issues between 1974 and 1978. Harrigan received a Dobie-Paisano fellowship in 1977, which allowed him to complete his first novel. Aransas, published by Knopf in 1980, tells the story of Jeff Dowling, an alienated young man who comes to terms with himself and the world as he trains two dolphins for a circus in Port Aransas, Texas. The New York Times named the novel one of the notable books of 1980, and reviewers praised its realism and style. His second novel, Jacob's Well, also focused on man's relationship with nature, following the lives of three people who are drawn together to explore an artesian well in Central Texas. The book was named one of the best books of 1984 by The Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. Harrigan's recent books, until the publication in 2000 of Gates of the Alamo, have been nonfiction. As a freelance writer and later staff writer and editor for Texas Monthly, Harrigan displayed a talent for journalism, contributing interviews and other investigative pieces, but he also focused on the natural environment, writing about rivers, Big Bend, Padre Island and other Texas landmarks. Many of these essays were collected in Harrigan's third book, A Natural State: Essays on Texas (1988), which was recently republished by the University of Texas Press. His 1992 book Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef combined research on aquatic life with his own experiences scuba diving off a coral reef in the Caribbean. The New York Times Book Review called Water and Light "moving, intelligent ... literary," and praised Harrigan's "remarkable ability to discuss the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of underwater exploration." Harrigan has also published a book of poetry and written screenplays, one of which, The Last of His Tribe, was broadcast on HBO. Harrigan's works are characterized by an intense interest in humans and their relationship to the environment around them. He once wrote of his interest in natural subjects: "I don't know what nature is exactly--whether it is a category that includes human beings or shuts them out--but for me it has always contained that hint of eeriness, the sense that some vital information--common knowledge to all the universe--has been specifically withheld from me. Sometimes, as with the snake, this secrecy has seemed malevolent, but far more often it has been wonderfully tantalizing. For much of my life I have been obsessed with nature, but not in the way a naturalist would be obsessed with it--driven to classify, to define relationships, to comprehend the world's marvelous intricacy. I have simply wanted to feel more fully a part of that intricacy, to see something other than neutral scorn in the eyes of that half-imagined snake." (Introduction to A Natural State, UT Press, 1994) Harrigan lives in Austin.

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• Curator, Southwestern Writers Collection

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• Fellow University of Texas English Professor

Fellow University of Texas English professor Stith Thompson invited Dobie to join the Texas Folklore Society in 1915. The third subseries contains documents relating to his involvement in the organization. Dobie claimed he had never heard of the word folklore before. "If Stith Thompson hadn't said folklore to me . . . I don't know where in the devil I'd be today. (Tinkle 37) Dobie succeeded Thompson in 1922 as secretary-editor of the society's publications. He revitalized the society after it had become moribund during World War I, and he pushed it in a direction independent of the American Folklore Society. Dobie resigned as editor in 1943, when he left Texas to teach a year in Cambridge, England, but he continued as a participant in the society and his influence remains strong to this date.

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• Associate Professor, Dept

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• Archivist

William Broyles, Jr. was born October 8, 1944 in Houston, Texas, and was raised in Baytown. He attended Rice University, earning a B.A. in History in 1966. While at Rice, Broyles was an active member of the student body and a contributing editor to the student newspaper, The Rice Thresher. As early as 1966, Broyles was also contributing articles to the Houston Post. Broyles served as president of the Rice student association during the 1965-1966 academic year, and was awarded the Hugh Scott Cameron award for outstanding community service. He has remained a strong supporter of the University throughout his career, delivering the commencement speech in 1983, and receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993. After graduating from Rice, Broyles was invited to study as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University where he earned an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics in 1968. While at Oxford, Broyles pursued his interests in both journalism and public service. He wrote political columns for the Oxford University magazine and contributed articles to the Economist of London. He also spoke throughout England for the United States Information Service. He later worked briefly for Leo Kramer, Inc., a Washington, D.C. social sciences consulting firm as a consultant on Model Cities, Manpower, and VISTA training programs. In 1968, Broyles's career was put on hold when he was drafted into the United States Marine Corps. Between 1969 and 1971, he rose to the rank of First Lieutenant and served in Vietnam, first as an infantry commander, and later as an aide-de-camp to the Assistant Division Commander, 1st Marine Division. Due to his education background and experience, his assigned duties included social issues with an emphasis on the refugees in the Quang Nam Province. Broyles received the Bronze Star and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star. Broyles's experiences in Vietnam inspired two of his most critically acclaimed projects. In 1984, he was one of the first veterans to return to Vietnam, and his book Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace, recounts his visit and his impressions of the aftermath of war on himself and his fellow soldiers, as well as on the country he fought against in battle. In 1988, Broyles once again drew upon his memories in Vietnam when he co-created the award-winning television series, China Beach, a weekly drama for ABC about the doctors and nurses stationed at an American military base in Danang. Upon returning from Vietnam in 1971, Broyles picked up his professional career. He taught Philosophy and Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis before returning to Texas as Chief Public Relations Officer for the Houston Independent School District. After a brief period of time in public service in Houston, Broyles was provided the opportunity to pursue his other primary interest, journalism. He became the founding editor of Texas Monthly magazine in 1972. Broyles's and Texas Monthly publisher Michael R. Levy's goal was to create a magazine of national quality in Texas, and Broyles spent eight years doing just that. Within its first year, the publication won a National Magazine Award for excellence; and during Broyles's tenure it quickly gained recognition as a "writer's magazine," offering intelligent and entertaining articles on Texas life ranging from politics, culture, art, sports, the environment, social issues, and entertainment. The award-winning magazine continues today as an example of quality journalism with a regional focus and a national readership. In 1980, Broyles and business partners, including Michael Levy, purchased New West magazine from Rupert Murdoch. Broyles served as editor-in-chief of the magazine from 1980-1982, and saw it through its redesign and re-naming as California. By 1982, Broyles's impressive track record in the magazine publishing world had caught the attention of Katherine Graham who recruited him to serve as editor of Newsweek magazine. He held that position from 1982-1984 when he resigned to pursue other interests. During the next few years, Broyles made one more foray into the magazine publishing world, serving as editor-in-chief of Cable Guide, but he focused primarily on developing his writing career. In addition to Brothers in Arms, he wrote a three-act play titled Boot, about three soldiers in a bunker in Vietnam joined by a new recruit that they nickname "Boot". The plot follows the four young men as they struggle to cope with the realities of war. In 1988, Broyles found critical success with the television series China Beach. In addition to co-creating the show with John Sacret Young, Broyles also wrote or co-wrote several of the early episodes, and remained producer and creative consultant throughout the run of the show. In 1991, the Golden Globe-winning China Beach went off the air, but Broyles was well into production on his second television project, Under Cover, a political espionage series following the adventures of husband-and-wife secret service agents, Dylan and Kate Del'Amico. The series was short-lived, and Broyles next adapted the Nigel Hamilton novel, J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, for a 1993 television mini-series of the same name starring Patrick Dempsey as the young future president. Also in 1993, Broyles turned his attention from television projects to writing feature films. He shares his first screenwriting credit with former Texas Monthly writer, Al Reinert for Apollo 13. The film, based loosely on the novel Lost Moon, co-authored by astronaut James Lovell and Jeffrey Kruger, was directed by Ron Howard. It was met with both critical and box office success, and Broyles and Reinert were nominated for the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. After Apollo 13, Broyles began work on Cast Away, an original screenplay about a FedEx executive stranded on a deserted island. Released in 2000, the film was produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and it features Tom Hanks as the resilient Chuck Noland. Apollo 13 and Cast Away secured Broyles's place as an A-list Hollywood screenwriter, and he holds writing credits on several other motion pictures including Entrapment (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Unfaithful (2002), Polar Express (2004), and Jarhead, (2005). Broyles continues to write, and he has recently begun his next feature film, Lost Shadows. The Texas native currently lives and works in Wyoming.