Conference on the Sowell Collection
October 10-12, 2019
Stephen Graham Jones and Barry Lopez
The Southwest
Collection/Special
Collections Library of Texas
Tech University is once
again celebrating the Sowell
Collection. All events are free and open to the public.
Created through the generous
support of former Texas Tech
University Regent James
Sowell, the Sowell
Collection contains the
personal papers of some of
the most prominent writers
on the natural world.
Writers of the Sowell
Collection include Rick
Bass, Lisa Couturier, Max Crawford, David
James Duncan, Gretel
Ehrlich, Paul Hawken, Clyde Jones,
William Kittredge, John
Lane, Barry Lopez, Walter
McDonald, Bill McKibben,
Susan Brind Morrow, Gary
Paul Nabhan, Doug Peacock,
Robert Michael Pyle, David
Quammen, Marc Reisner, Pattiann Rogers,
Sandra Scofield, Annick
Smith, and Ro Wauer. Newly
added
collections include those of
writers Stephen Graham Jones, Michael Koepf, Howard Norman, and J. Drew Lanham, as well as
additional papers from
Barry Lopez and Rick Bass.
Sponsored
by the Southwest
Collection/Special
Collections Library.
We have reserved a block of
rooms at the Overton Hotel
and at Staybridge Suites. Mention the Sowell Conference when you register.
Overton Hotel and Conference
Center
2322 Mac Davis Lane
Standard rooms, $139.00 Has airport shuttle service.
806-766-7000
On-line registration:
Overton Hotel
Deadline for reservations:
Sept. 25, 2019
Staybridge Suites
2515 19th St.
Studio suite, $96.00
806-765-8900
Deadline for reservations: Sept. 25, 2019 There is no registration
fee required for presenters
or members of our audiences.
We ask only that you make a
donation to our new Sowell
Collection Endowment fund. (Donate here.) If you
have any questions, please contact
Dr. Diane Warner (diane.warner@ttu.edu). |
2019 Program