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About the Collection Founded by Bill and Sally Wittliff at Texas State University-San Marcos in 1986, the Southwestern Writers Collection has become a distinguished and steadily-growing archive, charged with preserving, exhibiting, and providing access to the papers and artifacts of principal writers, filmmakers, and musicians of the Southwest. The resources in the Collection attest to the tremendous diversity of creative expression among southwestern artists and contribute to a rich research environment, within which students and others may work and thrive, discovering how the unique conditions and character of the Southwest have shaped its people and their cultural arts. With very few exceptions, all of the archives have been donated to the Collection. At last count our general donors number almost 600 and are increasing every year. Above: The Collection's 1555 edition of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's La relación y comentarios, considered the first written work on what is now Texas and the Southwest.
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