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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Foote, Horton. Genesis of an American playwright. Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2004] (OCoLC)607137774 |
| Named Person: | Horton Foote; Horton Foote |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Horton Foote; Marion Castleberry |
| ISBN: | 0918954916 9780918954916 |
| OCLC Number: | 52980644 |
| Description: | xxi, 287 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Genesis of a Playwright -- Seeing and Imagining -- Pasadena and Beyond -- Learning to Write -- On Being a Southern Writer -- Wharton, Then and Now -- What It Means to be a Southern Writer -- The Trip to Paradise -- The Artist as Mythmaker -- Things Have Ends and Beginnings -- Writing for the Stage -- Dance and Broadway (1944) -- Harrison, USA -- Sometimes the One-Act Play Says It All -- Advice to Young Playwrights -- Herbert Berghof -- The Orphans' Home Cycle Lecture -- How To and How Not To: Some Lessons Learned along the Way -- Introduction to The Young Man from Atlanta -- Writing for the Screen -- The Little Box -- On First Dramatizing Faulkner -- The McDermott Lecture -- Writing for Film -- Willa Cather -- Thoughts on the American Theatre -- The New York Theatre (1930-1940) -- The Changing of the Guard -- The Vanishing World and Renewals. |
| Responsibility: | by Horton Foote ; edited and with an introduction by Dr. Marion Castleberry. |
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Abstract:
"In Genesis of an American Playwright. Horton Foote, one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century, reflects upon his journey from his childhood in Wharton, Texas, through his early experiences as an actor in the theatre, to his mature vocation as a playwright. All along the way, Foote carefully identifies the people and influences that shaped his character and nurtured his art. What is remarkable about this book is equally remarkable about his drama: he writes with an effortlessness that belies the intimacy of the art emanating from deep within. The stories are simply told, but complex in their resonance. Foote not only reveals his immediate professional world, but he also provides a running commentary on the changes in American culture. This book makes for as fascinating reading as it does compelling history."--Jacket.
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- Foote, Horton -- Childhood and youth.
- Foote, Horton -- Homes and haunts -- Texas -- Wharton.
- Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.
- Texas -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Texas -- Social life and customs.
- Wharton (Tex.) -- Biography.
