SMU Exhibit To Honor Horton Foote

A new exhibit at SMU's DeGolyer Library offers an insightful look at a beloved writer's life. Horton Foote, writer of Oscar-winning screenplays "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Young Man From Atlanta," is honored in the exhibit, "The Life and Work of Horton Foote," March 1- May 1.

The exhibit is part of the Dallas-wide Horton Foote Festival March 14 - May 1.
The legendary Texas playwright wrote more than 60 plays, screenplays and television scripts by hand in spiral-bound stenographer pads. The exhibit traces his writing process from steno pad to typed and annotated script to production programs and movie stills to two shiny Oscar statuettes. His copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird," complete with dialogue notes scribbled in the book's margins, is included in the exhibit along with childhood photos and highlights of his early acting career.

Visit the online digital collection, Horton Foote: Photographs and Manuscripts.

DeGolyer Library also has published a tribute to Horton Foote, Farewell: Remembering Horton Foote, 1916-2009 (DeGolyer Library, 2011). The book includes contributions from more than 50 colleagues and friends including Edward Albee, Ellen Burstyn, Robert Duvall, Jean Stapleton, James Houghton and Jane Roberts Wood.

The Foote papers were acquired in 1991 by DeGolyer Library, a rare book and special collections library at SMU. The extensive archive includes drafts, revisions and final scripts for Foote's plays, screenplays, novel and memoirs as well as personal essays and reflections. It also includes a large file of correspondence with fellow writers such as To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee, actors such as Robert Duvall, family and friends. The collection also includes playbills, reviews, posters, photographs and films.

Exhibit details

Where:
DeGolyer Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, Dallas, Texas

Hours:
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, Mar. 1 - May 1

Cost:
Free and open to the public

Parking:
Visitor parking, Binkley Parking Garage, 3101 Binkley Ave.

Info:
214-768-3231 or www.smu.edu/cul/degolyer

 

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