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A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove

A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove( )
Author: Wittliff, Bill
Foreword by: McMurtry, Larry
Introduction by: Harrigan, Stephen
Series title:Southwestern and Mexican Photography Series, the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University Ser.
ISBN:978-0-292-72173-9
Publication Date:Aug 2009
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $45.00
Book Description:

A special edition to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Lonesome Dove miniseries

Book Details
Pages:188
Detailed Subjects: Performing Arts / Television / General
Photography / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.3 x 12.3 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:4 Pounds
Author Biography
Wittliff, Bill (Author)


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 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.

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