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Additional authors

1. Roudy, Pierre

Description

1. 26

Summary

1. Collection consists of eighteen play scripts and one film script. With the exception of one play which was published in Paris, in French, all plays are unpublished.

Subject

1. Musical scores
2. Authors > United States
3. American drama > 20th century
4. American drama > African American authors
5. Plays
6. African American dramatists
7. Scripts
8. Motion picture plays
9. African American authors
10. Dramatists, American > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Plays.
2. Scripts.
3. Motion picture plays.
4. Musical scores.

Call number

1. Sc MG 613

Terms of use (note)

1. Photocopying requires prior permission from the donor.

Source (note)

1. Harris, Sharon

Biography (note)

1. Playwright. Willie Thomas Harris was born in Birmingham, Alabama.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Harris, Willie Thomas.

Title

1. Willie Thomas Harris play scripts, 1951-1984.

Terms of use

1. Photocopying requires prior permission from the donor.

Biography

1. Playwright. Willie Thomas Harris was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Harris studied painting at the Art Students League for one year (1948-1949), after which he transferred to Columbia University where he majored in creative writing and studied playwriting for four years (1951-1955). After leaving the University he completed four full length plays which were produced in Los Angeles, 1961, and in Madison, Wisconsin, 1963. Harris left the United States in the mid-sixties, and lived in Europe from 1965 to 1978. He resided in Paris, France, where he wrote several plays, three of which were translated to French by Pierre Roudy. "The beginning of the marathon," a play for children, was produced in Paris by O.R.T.F. (Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française), and published under the title "L'autre marathon."
2. Willie Thomas Harris also experimented with the novel form and wrote three novels: "The end of the search," 1971, "Ston's Gym and Club," 1973, and "Out of buzzard roost," 1978, all unpublished. In 1978, he returned to the United States where he continued to write full length plays, and a film script, "To the bayou winds." "Not a single blade of grass," produced at the 18th Street Playhouse, won the Theater of Renewal Award for Best Play, 1986. Willie Thomas Harris died in 1989.

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1. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Harris, Willie Thomas. Leedsville.
2. Harris, Willie Thomas. End of the search.
3. Harris, Willie Thomas. Star for Bella.
4. Harris, Willie Thomas. Sounds in the alley.
5. Harris, Willie Thomas. God takes the late train.
6. Harris, Willie Thomas. Blood of the starches.
7. Harris, Willie Thomas. Cross at the edge of the sword.
8. Harris, Willie Thomas. Actor in tragi-color.
9. Harris, Willie Thomas. Not a single blade of grass.
10. Harris, Willie Thomas. Lantern for Crispus.
11. Harris, Willie Thomas. Tue ton prochain comme toi-même.
12. Harris, Willie Thomas. Roar of a distant canon.
13. Harris, Willie Thomas. Beginning of the marathon.
14. Harris, Willie Thomas. Autre marathon.
15. Harris, Willie Thomas. Beginning of something.
16. Harris, Willie Thomas. Harlem nocturne.
17. Harris, Willie Thomas. Wine party.
18. Harris, Willie Thomas. Killer of the food.
19. Harris, Willie Thomas. Harlem in Paree.
20. Harris, Willie Thomas. Our side of town.
21. Harris, Willie Thomas. To the bayou winds.
22. Roudy, Pierre.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 613