Southwestern Writers Collection

The Southwestern Writers Collection is located at the Albert B. Alkek Library on the campus of Texas State University in San Marcos, a thirty-minute drive from Austin. Although the more renowned writers in this collection have some connection to Texas or the Southwest, either by birth or their subject matter, their impact extends to American letters. The collection includes the papers of Cormac McCarthy, Sandra Cisneros, Katherine Anne Porter, Larry McMurtry, Sam Shepard, Molly Ivins, Edwin “Bud” Shrake, John Graves, and Tino Villanueva.