Shelby
Hearon (1931 - ) Papers
1983-1992
.5 linear feet
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Acquisition: Deposited on loan by Shelby Hearon from
1989 through 1992. Hearon has
donated her papers to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the
University of Texas at Austin.
Access: Direct inquiries to the Archivist,
Writer's Collection, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4604
Processed by: Gwynedd Cannan, August 1995
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Shelby Hearon
was born January 18, 1931 in Kentucky.
After earning a BA in 1953 from the University of Texas at Austin, she
settled down to marriage and family.
She began her first novel Armadillo in the Grass in 1962 and after many stops and
rewrites, submitted it to Knopf in 1967.
Knopf accepted the novice's manuscript "over the transom" and
Hearon's career as a writer was launched.
Hearon has
written 13 novels through 1995.
She received an Ingram Merrill grant in 1987, a National Endowment for
the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 1983, and the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Fellowship for Fiction in 1982.
Hearon won the Texas Institute of Letters Fiction award in 1973 for The
Second Dune and in 1978
for A Prince of a Fellow.
She has been a five-time recipient of the
NEA/PEN syndication Short Story Prize.
In addition to
writing novels, Hearon lectures, teaches writing, and contributes articles to
national publications.
Books by Hearon:
Armadillo in
the Grass (1968), The
Second Dune (1973), Hannah's
House (1975), Now and
Another Time (1976), A
Prince of a Fellow
(1978), Barbara Jordan, a self portrait (1979), Painted Dresses (1981), Afternoon of a Faun (1983), Group Therapy (1984), A Small Town (1985), 500 Scorpions (1986), Owning Jolene (1989), Hug Dancing (1991), Life Estates (1994)
SCOPE AND
CONTENTS
1983-1992, 1
box, Accession No. 91-032, 099; 92-149
The papers
contain notes, drafts and clippings.
The material demonstrates Hearon's working methods--background research,
sketched out ideas, revisions. The
clippings contain book reviews, interviews and some biographical information.
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