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       Rick Bass                   Annick Smith              William Kittredge
                          
                THE JAMES SOWELL FAMILY COLLECTION
                            IN LITERATURE, COMMUNITY,
                              AND THE NATURAL WORLD

Created through the generous support of former Texas Tech University Regent
James Sowell, this collection, which is housed in the Southwest Collection/
Special Collections Library, contains the personal papers of some of the
country’s most prominent writers on the natural world. 

Two of these writers—William Kittredge, and Annick Smith—will visit Texas
Tech in February 2003.  Writing with a profound respect for the grandeur and
fierceness of the land, these three writers are deeply engaged with questions of
land use and the nature of community; the conjunction of scientific and spiritual
values; and the fragility of wilderness.

Realizing the importance of the Sowell Collection, the Library continues to
acquire supporting works from such significant writers as Henry David Thoreau,
John Muir, Edward Abbey, and Wendell Berry.  With this collection of natural
history writers, the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas
Tech University is rapidly becoming one of the world’s finest repositories of
natural history literature. 

Exhibit curated by Diane Warner, Fabricated by Lyn Stoll, November 2002-TTU LIB