Playwright Foote to talk on campus about his craft

Playwright
Foote to talk on campus about his craft
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BY B.J. ALMOND
Rice News Staff

Academy Award-winning
playwright Horton Foote will share his thoughts on writing
plays and screenplays during a free public lecture at Rice
Sept. 16.

Invited by the
Friends of Fondren Library for its Distinguished Guest Lecture,
Foote will speak at 5 p.m. in Stude Concert Hall at Rice’s
Alice Pratt Brown Hall. Reservations are not needed.

Foote’s
screenplay of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”
and his original screenplay for “Tender Mercies”
both won an Oscar. Foote received the Pulitzer Prize in
drama for “The Young Man from Atlanta” and an
Emmy for his dramatization of William Faulkner’s “The
Old Man.” He also has been honored with the U.S. Presidential
National Medal of Arts and the Writers Guild of America
Lifetime Achievement Award.

Foote has written
two dozen plays that have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway
and at many regional theaters. Houston hosted the world
premiere of his most recent play, “The Carpetbagger’s
Children,” this past June in a production that starred
Jean Stapleton.

The Friends
of Fondren Library will host a reception after Foote’s
presentation. Foote’s memoir, “Farewell,”
will be available for purchase.

The Friends
of Fondren Library was founded as an association of library
supporters interested in increasing the resources of Rice’s
Fondren Library and making them better-known. The organization
raises funds to purchase rare books, manuscripts and other
materials needed to support teaching and research.

Free parking
is available for visitors in Lot L by Entrance 8 from University
Boulevard and Lot E by Entrance 13 from Rice Boulevard.
For more information call (713) 348-5157.