Beginnings : a memoir
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270 pages : ill. ; 22 cm
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"Since 1939, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the experience of American life both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screen play Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal for Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama, and the President's National Medal of Arts." "Beginnings is the story of Foote's discovery of his own vocation. He didn't always want to write. When he left Wharton, Texas, at the age of sixteen to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, Foote aspired to be an actor. He remembers the terror and excitement of leaving home during the Depression, his early exposure to the influences of German theater, and the speech lessons he took to "cure" him of his Southern drawl. He eventually arrives in New York to search for acting jobs and to study with some of the great Russian and American teachers of the 1930s. But after mixed results on the stage, he finally recognizes his true passion, writing."--BOOK JACKET.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Foote, H. (2001). Beginnings: a memoir . Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Foote, Horton. 2001. Beginnings: A Memoir. Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Foote, Horton. Beginnings: A Memoir Scribner, 2001.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Foote, Horton. Beginnings: A Memoir Scribner, 2001.

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