Pat LittleDog

Papers, 1954-1984

1 box (0.5 linear feet)

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Acquisition: Gifts donated by Pat LittleDog, since 1992.

Access: Open for Research.

Processed by: Amanda Oates, 1999.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Pat Ellis Taylor was born June 23, 1941 in Bryan, Texas. She lived in Weisbaden, Germany during her teenage years in the mid to late 1950s. She received her B.A. in 1969 and her M.A. in 1976, both from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her first novel, Border Healing Woman, won a Southwest Book Award in 1981, and her third, Afoot in a Field of Men and Other Stories from Dallas’ East Side, won a Texas Circuit Book Award. In 1991, Taylor changed her named to Pat LittleDog and published In Search of the Holy Mother of Jobs.

BOOKS PUBLISHED

Border Healing Woman : The Story of Jewel Barr. Austin: University of Texas Press,

1981.

Tonics, Tears, Roots, and Remedies : A Selection of Poems. Austin: Slough Press, 1982.

Afoot in a Field of Men and Other Stories from Dallas’ East Side. Austin: Slough Press,

1983.

How it Happened That I Came to Live in the West : Diary of Coyote Pat. Austin: Slough

Press, 1984.

The God Chaser. Austin : Slough Press, 1986.

In Search of the Holy Mother of Jobs. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 1991.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

This collection is comprised of diaries, typescripts, correspondence, artifacts, and published journals. The bulk of the collection is formed by the typescripts of How It Happened That I Came to Live in the West. The Correspondence series also relates to this novel. Diaries date from LittleDog’s teenage years in Germany, a red Hofner accordion belonged to LittleDog’s father. Dates range from 1954-1984. Books and periodicals cataloged separately.

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