Southwestern Literature curator at the Wittliff Collections, Past President of the Texas Institute of Letters, PEN-USA-winning author
Author: Steve Davis
“Hollywood Mad Dogs” now available in The Wittliff’s Literary Series
Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin “Bud” Shrake completed a final novel, Hollywood Mad Dogs. This rollicking tale is based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s, where he penned films starring Dennis …
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All Hail the Popcorn King
“Joe Lansdale is a great writer who can kill you not only with words, but with his hands.” So begins this feisty documentary, All Hail the Popcorn King, which celebrates the virtuoso writer from Nacogdoches Texas — a man whose …
The Wittliff Acquires Papers of John Rechy, Pioneer of American, LGBT, and Chicano Literature
The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University have acquired the complete archive of internationally acclaimed author John Rechy, praised as “one of the few original American writers of the last century,” by Gore Vidal, and as “one of Mexican‑American literature’s …
Naomi Shihab Nye wins Prestigious Literary Award.
The Wittliff is proud to share the news that Naomi Shihab Nye has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. This is the highest honor given by the TIL, which was established in 1936 to recognize …
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Major Dobie collector’s extraordinary new gift.
Last November at the annual “Dobie Dichos” literary festival in South Texas, I got to meet William Allison, a Houston attorney who specializes in environmental law and who has emerged as one of the great modern collectors of J. Frank …
Masters of Historical Fiction Honored in The Wittliff’s New Exhibition
The epic sweep of Texas history has inspired classic novels by many of our greatest writers, and the Wittliff Collections showcases the best of this work in its new exhibition, Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative Imagination. Texas writers …
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