Archives at the Wittliff Collections

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT First edition of Five Plays by Sam Shepard; maquette for The Writer John Graves by Pat Oliphant; 35mm Barbarosa film reel; King of the Hill cast poster; Places in the Heart lobby card; fiddle played by Bob Wills; "Texas Music" issue of Texas Monthly featuring Tejano singer Selena; inscribed first edition of The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter; bust of Porter by Glenna Goodacre; Cormac McCarthy's manuscript and first edition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The Road; backstage pass from Austin City Limits; promotional "Wilson" volleyball from Cast Away; manuscript and playbill for Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child.

Archives available for research at the Wittliff Collections.

Susan Wittig Albert

Judy Alter

Anthony "Lucky" Tomblin Collection of Antone's: Home of the Blues

Bill Arhos-Austin City Limits

Paul Baker

Neal Barrett, Jr.

Rick Bass

Robert Benton (film archives include Bonnie and Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart, and Nobody's Fool.)

Sarah Bird

Cindy Bonner

Billy Lee Brammer

William Broyles, Jr. (founding editor of Texas Monthly; editor at Newsweek, China Beach television series co-creator and writer, author of Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace; film credits include Apollo 13, The Polar Express, and Cast Away.)

Mark Busby

Robert Calvert

Gary Cartwright

Kay Council

Mike Cox

Elizabeth Crook

James Crumley

Jim Dauterive-King of the Hill papers

J. Frank Dobie

Ernie Durawa

Dan Flores

Robert Flynn

Jean Flynn

Ian Frazier

Dagoberto Gilb

Fred Gipson

Albert Goldbarth

Jovita González & E.E. Mireles

John Graves

A.C. Greene

R.S. Gwynn

Susan Hanson

Stephen Harrigan

William Hauptman

Shelby Hearon

Jim Hightower

Hispanic Magazine

Wilson Hudson

Mary Gray Hughes

Preston Jones

Tommy Lee Jones (The Good Old Boys film archives)

Elmer Kelton

Larry L. King

King of the Hill (Jim Dauterive papers)

Elithe Hamilton Kirkland

Joe R. Lansdale

Grover Lewis

Pat LittleDog

Lonesome Dove (television miniseries)

Beverly Lowry

Paul Scott Malone

Cormac McCarthy (six collections)

Larry McMurtry

Angela Shelf Medearis

Jay Milner

Bill Minutaglio

Celia Morris

Willie Nelson

Panther Hall Collection

Joe Nick Patoski

Severo Perez (...and the earth did not swallow him film archives)

Katherine Anne Porter

Freddy Powers/Texas Heritage Songwriters' Association Collection

Ron Querry

Dick Reavis

Jan Reid

Clay Reynolds

Rick Riordan

Joyce Gibson Roach

Michael W. Rodriguez

Ricardo and Harriett Romo

Winifred Sanford

Tamara Saviano Collection

Buck Schiwetz

Screenplay collection

Selena research collection

John Sepich (Notes on Blood Meridian)

Sam Shepard

Edwin "Bud" Shrake

Marc Simmons

C.W. Smith

J. Edwin Smith

Kenneth Smith

Hart Stilwell

Carlton Stowers

W.K. Stratton

Jesse Sublett

Texas Institute of Letters

Texas Monthly Magazine

Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame

Trip to Bountiful (film)

Stevie Ray Vaughn research collection

Tino Villanueva

R.G. Vliet

Jerry Jeff Walker

Donley Watt

Barbara and Fred Whitehead

Bill Wittliff (film archives include Lonesome Dove, Legends of the Fall, Red Headed Stranger, The Cowboy Way, Barbarosa, The Perfect Storm, Raggedy Man. For Wittliff's photographic archives visit the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection)

Michael Zagst

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