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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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