Larry L. King Collection : 1948-[ongoing], (bulk 1967-1991).

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Larry L. King Collection : 1948-[ongoing], (bulk 1967-1991).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24446135

Includes audition notes, book and play reviews, cartoons, correspondence, galley proofs, interviews, magazine pieces, memorabilia, newspaper ads, photographs, playbills, publicity posters, scripts, song lyrics, sound and video recordings, and theatre tickets documenting King's career as a free lance writer, legislative aide, playwright and author. Includes materials by or about Billy Lee Brammer, Pat Oliphant, Billy Porterfield, and Bud Shrake. Correspondence includes dozens of short notes to King in response to King's plays as well as cover letters to Bill Wittliff explaining the significance of virtually every item in the collection.

Main Collection: 9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)Oversize: 1 portfolio.Realia: 7 items.Audiovisual: 3 items.

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7132799

Texas State University-San Marcos, Albert B. Alkek Library

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Oliphant, Pat, 1935-....

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Porterfield, Bill

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Wittliff, William D.

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Award winning, Austin-based publisher, photographer, and screenwriter William D. "Bill" Wittliff is perhaps best known as the screenwriter and executive producer of the television miniseries, Lonesome Dove (1989). Mr. Wittliff and his wife Sally, are also the founding donors of the Southwestern Writers Collection (1986) and the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography (1996), both at the Albert B. Alkek Library, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. F...

King, Larry L.

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Larry L. King, playwright. From the description of The night Hank Williams died: typescript, 1985. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144651997 Author and playwright. From the description of Larry L. King Collection : 1948-[ongoing], (bulk 1967-1991). (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 24446135 Lawrence Leo King, the youngest child of Clyde Clayton and Cora Lee Clark King, was born January 1, 1929 in Putnam,...

Shrake, Edwin

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Edwin Shrake, born Sept. 6, 1931 in Fort Worth, Texas, has written Blood reckoning (1961), But not for love (1964), Strange peaches (1972), Peter Arbiter (1973), and co-authored Limo (1976) with Dan Jenkins. He also wrote the screenplays for J.W. Coop (1972, with Gary Cartwright), Kid Blue (1973), Nightwing (1978) and Tom Horn (1980) as well as numerous short stories. From the description of Papers, 1943-1975, 1960-1972. 1943-1975. (Austin Public Library). WorldCat record id: 2432976...

Brammer, Billy Lee

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Novelist, journalist, political aide to Lyndon Baines Johnson. From the description of Billy Lee Brammer papers, 1946-1993. (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 26650982 Billy Lee Brammer was born April 21, 1929, in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from North Texas State College in 1952 with a degree in journalism. Brammer was a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller Times and the Austin Statesman, where he won a press award for excellence in writ...