Bill Wittliff (1940–2019)
Auteur de A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove (Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography)
A propos de l'auteur
Bill Wittliff is a screenwriter who was born and raised in Texas. He is best known for his adaptation of Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-wining western novel "Lonesome Dove" inot a hit mini-series. The series retold Mr. McMurtry¿s 1985 novel about two former Texas Rangers on a cattle drive to afficher plus Montana as a four-part, eight-hour saga in 1989. Wittliff had developed a strong affinity for the outsize mythology and history of Texas. He had also become a prominent cultural figure in Austin. He and his wife had owned a small press that published books by writers from Texas and other parts of the Southwest. They had also begun a university archive, the Southwestern Writers Collection, filled with manuscripts and artifacts. He had also written the screenplays for a number of films set in Texas, among them 'Raggedy Man' (1981), in which Sissy Spacek played a character based on his mother, who raised her two sons as a small-town telephone switchboard operator. Bill Witliff passed away from a heart attack on 06/09/2019 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Bill Wittliff
A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove (Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography) (2007) 42 exemplaires
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Wittliff, William Dale
- Date de naissance
- 1940-01-21
- Date de décès
- 2019-06-09
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Taft, Texas, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Blanco, Texas, USA
Dallas, Texas, USA
Austin, Texas, USA - Études
- University of Texas
- Professions
- screenwriter
publisher
archivist
photographer - Organisations
- Southwestern Writer Collection
- Prix et distinctions
- Texas Film Hall of Fame
Membres
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 83
- Popularité
- #218,811
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- ISBN
- 13