David Dunaway Writing the Southwest research and recordings, 1976-2005.

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David Dunaway Writing the Southwest research and recordings, 1976-2005.

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David Dunaway's Writing the Southwest collection is divided into two series audio and research. The audio series consists of sound recordings from the radio documentary series "Writing the Southwest," a thirteen-part national radio documentary that explores literature from multiethnic authors (mainly from New Mexico) who helped define Southwestern American literature. Fourteen authors are represented and for each one there is related audio. The authors include: Edward Abbey, Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chávez, Joy Harjo, Tony Hillerman, Linda Hogan, Barbara Kingsolver, Terry McMillan, John Nichols, Simon Ortiz, Alberto Ríos, Stan Steiner, Luci Tapahonso, and Frank Waters. The audio series also contains recordings on consulting conferences in preparation for the radio series and interviews, readings, lectures and broadcasts with the writers listed above. The research series constitutes the research David Dunaway collected from 1987-1995 to write the scripts, co-produce the radio series and edit the companion volume Writing the Southwest. The materials include biographical documents, criticism, correspondence, interview transcripts, production scripts, notes and a few photographs. In addition, the research series has publicity, a lecture series and media documents from promoting the radio series and book, consulting conferences transcripts and an overview of the project written by David Dunaway. These papers and recordings reveal the creative process and development of the radio series and evolution of the book. In addition, they highlight the unique American Southwest literary tradition. Source: Some of the scope and content information provided by David Dunaway.

4 boxes (2.6 cu. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989

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American author. From the description of Edward Abbey's Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Some Notes from a Secret Journal production records, 1988-1989. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 41557904 Edward Abbey was born on January 29, 1927. He grew up in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. His first glimpse of the American Southwest was in 1944 when he hitchhiked to Seattle and then to Arizona. After serving as a U.S. Army rifleman in Italy from 1945-1946, he enrolled...

Tapahonso, Luci, 1953-....

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Writer and teacher, born in Shiprock, N.M.. Earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Creative Writing from UNM in 1980, and 1983 respectively. Politics, social issues, racism, and economics permeate Tapahonso's writing. Her goal in relation to her writing is to keep Navajo culture intact and dynamic. Tapahonso writes in English and Navajo. From the description of Papers, 1976-[ongoing]. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 35564419 Phot...

Dunaway, David King

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A group of Southwestern authors, who formed the Writers Co-op of Santa Fe in 1985 to help promote Southwestern authors, approached radio producer and University of New Mexico English professor David Dunaway to pilot a radio series that would highlight southwestern literature. Dunaway secured funding for the project from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Arizona Humanities Council, the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities and the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. Fourteen well-kn...

Steiner, Stanley F.

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Stan Steiner was born on January 1, 1925, son of Bernard and Regina Storch Steiner of Brooklyn. After attending the University of Wisconsin for a year, Steiner hitchhiked West from New York in 1945 and began a forty year love affair with the people and places of the American West. The center of his personal and working life until his death was the reevaluation of the history of the West from a Western perspective. This took the form of his many books, from his earliest The Last Horse (1961) to t...

Rios, Alberto

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Mcmillan, Terry

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Popular writer Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951, to Madeline Washington Tillman and Edward McMillan. She grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, a city about sixty miles northeast of Detroit. Her parents divorced when McMillan was thirteen and her father died three years later. McMillan's mother supported her family by working nights at a factory.As a child, McMillan had little interest in literature, but she discovered the joy of reading as a teenager, while working at a library shelving bo...

Anaya, Rudolfo A.

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Rudolfo Anaya was born to Martín and Rafaelita Mares Anaya on October 30, 1937, in Pastura, New Mexico. He attended public schools in Santa Rosa and Albuquerque. A student in the English Department at the University of New Mexico, he earned a B.A. in 1963 and an M.A. in 1968. In 1972 he earned a second M.A. in guidance and counseling, also from the University of New Mexico. Anaya married Patricia Lawless in 1966. After teaching in Albuquerque public schools from 1963-1970, he became director of...

Waters, Frank, 1902-1995

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Frank Waters, writer and editor, was born July 25, 1902, at the foot of Pike's Peak, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His father, who was part Cherokee died when Frank was 12 years old. It was his father who initially sparked Frank's interest in Indian culture. Waters attended Colorado College (Colorado Springs) from 1922-25 as an engineering student. He dropped out after his third year to take a job as a laborer in the Salt Creek, Wyoming oil fields. He later worked as an engineer for the Souther...

Hillerman, Tony

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Writer and teacher. Born, Anthony Grove Hillerman, Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, 1925. From the description of Papers, 1964-1996. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 22136922 ...

Ortiz, Simon J., 1941-....

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Chávez, Denise

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Born in Las Cruces, N.M. in 1948. Received advanced educational degrees in drama and creative writing. Worked in the Artist-in-Residence Program in various New Mexico communities. Teaches and gives workshops in writing, creative dramatics, and acting. Her plays have been produced throughout the United States and abroad. From the description of Papers, 1965-1987. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 32919498 Photo of Denise Chavez taken by ...

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Writing the Southwest.

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Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-....

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Author and activist, John Treadwell Nichols was born in Berkeley, CA on July 23, 1940. His mother, Monique Robert, was French. His great grandfather on Monique's side, Anatole Le Braz, was a noted poet and folklorist from Brittany (in the North of France) whose work is still revered and in print. His American paternal grandfather (and namesake), John T. Nichols, was a distinguished naturalist and longtime Curator of Recent Fishes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Paternal gr...

Hogan, Linda

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