LEADER 04560nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910827617003321 005 20230617010656.0 010 $a0-292-79787-7 024 7 $a10.7560/791602 035 $a(CKB)1000000000453924 035 $a(OCoLC)60338655 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245812 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000173125 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180131 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173125 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163377 035 $a(PQKB)10688712 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571724 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571724 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245812 035 $a(DE-B1597)586839 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797871 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000453924 100 $a20020716d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHorton Foote$b[electronic resource] $ea literary biography /$fCharles S. Watson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 225 1 $aThe Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ;$vno. 9 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-79160-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-270) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tP R E F A C E -- $t1 Foote and Wharton, Texas -- $t2 Formative Years and the Call of Acting -- $t3 Finding a Vocation: From Acting to Writing -- $t4 Texas Playwright on Broadway and Tennessee Williams -- $t5 Return to Broadway: The Chase -- $t6 The Golden Age of Television -- $t7 The Trip to Bountiful: Three Versions -- $t8 Christian Science -- $t9 People and Themes -- $t10 Country Music: The Traveling Lady, Baby, the Rain Must Fall, and Tender Mercies -- $t11 Adaptations of Harper Lee, Faulkner, O?Connor, and Steinbeck -- $t12 The Orphans? Home Cycle, Part 1 -- $t13 The Orphans? Home Cycle, Part 2 -- $t14 One-Acts of the 1980s: Disintegrating Homes and Displaced Persons -- $t15 Greek Tragedy and Full-Length Plays across the Hudson -- $t16 Amazing Climax: The Young Man from Atlanta -- $tConclusion: The Achievement of Horton Foote -- $tCHRONOLOGY -- $tGENEALOGY -- $tNOTES -- $tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Young Man from Atlanta and Academy Awards for the screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and the original screenplay Tender Mercies, as well as the recipient of an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of The Trip to Bountiful and the William Inge Lifetime Achievement Award, Horton Foote is one of America's most respected writers for stage and screen. The deep compassion he shows for his characters, the moral vision that infuses his social commentary, and the kindness and humanity that Foote himself radiates have also made him one of our most revered artists?the father-figure who understands our longings for home, for human connections, and for certainty in a world largely bereft of these. This literary biography thoroughly investigates how Horton Foote's life and worldview have shaped his works for stage, television, and film. Tracing the whole trajectory of Foote's career from his small-town Texas upbringing to the present day, Charles Watson demonstrates that Foote has created a fully imagined mythical world from the materials supplied by his own and his family's and friends' lives in Wharton, Texas, in the early twentieth century. Devoting attention to each of Foote's major works in turn, he shows how this world took shape in Foote's writing for the New York stage, Golden Age television, Hollywood films, and in his nine-play masterpiece, The Orphan's Home Cycle. Throughout, Watson's focus on Foote as a master playwright and his extensive use of the dramatist's unpublished correspondence make this literary biography required reading for all who admire the work of Horton Foote. 410 0$aJack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ;$vno. 9. 606 $aDramatists, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aScreenwriters$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aTexas$vBiography 615 0$aDramatists, American 615 0$aScreenwriters 676 $a812/.54 676 $aB 700 $aWatson$b Charles S.$f1931-$01597381 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827617003321 996 $aHorton Foote$93919125 997 $aUNINA