C. W. Smith Papers
1989-1990, n.d.
Collection 022
7 folders
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Acquisition: donated by C. W. Smith through Bill Wittliff
from 1989 to 1990
Access: Direct inquiries to the Archivist,
Southwestern Writer's Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
78666-4604
Processed by:
Gwyneth Cannan, March 1995; Inventory revised by Brandy Harris, 2005
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
C. W. Smith was born in Corpus
Christi, March 28, 1940. Currently
a professor of English at Southern Methodist University, Smith has been a
reporter, critic, screenwriter and novelist. He was a Dobie-Paisano Fellow from 1974 to 1975 and
President of the Texas Institute of Letters from 1981 to 1983. He has won the Texas Institute of
Letters Jesse Jones Award for best novel in 1973 and the Stanley Walker Award
for Journalism in 1985. He has
written for magazines and journals including the Dallas Times Herald, Esquire,
and Mademoiselle.
SCOPE AND
CONTENTS
The collection contains a copy of the
screenplay for the 1975 novel Country Music, a copy of a typescript of the 1989
novel Buffalo Nickel, and
an issue of the Poseidon Press Spring Selections 1989 containing an excerpt from Buffalo
Nickel. The material was donated through Bill
Wittliff to whom Smith had submitted these copies for comments.
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