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The Horton Foote Collection at DeGolyer Library includes more than 200 boxes of material documenting the 60-year career of the playwright, author and filmmaker. In the spring an exhibit and panel discussion at the the library will focus on Foote, who died in 2009 at age 92.

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DeGolyer Library will celebrate the life of noted playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote with an exhibit and panel discussion in March 2011 (date to be determined).
Foote’s personal papers, housed in DeGolyer Library, illustrate his prolific writing career, spanning six decades. Highlights include his Oscar-winning screenplays for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Young Man from Atlanta. Photographs, letters, programs, posters and other documents also will be on display.
The exhibit will be up during the Dallas-Fort Worth area Horton Foote Festival, which runs March 14 through May 1, 2011. For more information, call 214-768-3231.

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