About the Collection
This digital collection provides a sample of the photographs, images, albums, and more, of the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote (1916-2009), his family, and his career. Also available online is a digitized file of the kinescope, .
The Horton Foote Papers collection, 1838-2011, comprises approximately 276 linear feet of material documenting the Wharton, Texas native’s 60-year career in film, stage, and television. It includes manuscripts, scrapbooks, handwritten drafts of screenplays, diaries, letters, photographs, and family memorabilia.