Articles and information about The Wittliff’s Southwestern Writers Collection.
Category: Literature
A new Wittliff “Bookmark” on the radio
The Wittliff is excited to announce that you will soon be able to hear in-depth interviews with your favorite Wittliff authors, thanks to a new partnership with “Bookmarked,” the weekly radio program hosted by Priscilla Leder on San Marcos radio …
A Brief History of The Encino Press
In 1963, shortly after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Bill Wittliff and his wife, Sally, founded the Encino Press on the kitchen table of their Dallas apartment. The press focused on regional material about Texas and the …
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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Breathing new life into Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación.
Scholars of Texas, U.S. and world history can now access an innovative online resource that showcases the earliest written account of Texas and the Southwest. Texas State University Libraries and The Wittliff Collections today launched a website celebrating La relación, …
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VIDEO: Sandra Cisneros and John Phillip Santos
In April of 2017, Sandra Cisneros visited campus to celebrate the opening of her archives at The Wittliff. Here is a video of that celebration and her conversation with colleague John Phillip Santos. For information about upcoming events at The …
Sandra Cisneros’ archive opens to eager researchers.
In summer 2015, the Wittliff Collections acquired the major literary archive of author, Sandra Cisneros. As one of America’s leading writers, Cisneros helped launch the Latino literary boom and is the author of poetry, a memoir, essays, children’s books, and …
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