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In 2014, Wittliff and his wife Sally Wittliff, an attorney in Austin, Texas, were awarded honorary doctor of letters degrees by Texas State University. Wittliff died on June 9, 2019, in Austin from a heart attack at the age of 79.
- 1964 – 2019
- January 21, 1940, Taft, Texas, U.S.
- University of Texas at Austin
- June 9, 2019 (aged 79), Austin, Texas, U.S.
August 2019 2. For all the identifiers that obituary writers will reach for to describe Bill Wittliff—screenwriter, photographer, book publisher, novelist, sketch artist, archivist ...
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Jun 13, 2019 · Business Wire. By Richard Sandomir. June 13, 2019. Bill Wittliff, a garrulous Texas-bred screenwriter who adapted Larry McMurtry’s sweeping Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel “Lonesome Dove”...
May 28, 2020 · Bill Wittliff died of a heart attack in Austin on June 9, 2019. He had just returned with his wife from a visit to their ranch at Plum Creek. The day before his death had been the couple’s fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. “He got to be a habit,” Sally Wittliff said. Wittliff’s ashes were interred at the State Cemetery.
Jun 10, 2019 · June 10, 2019 12:05pm. Michael O’Brien. William D. Wittliff, the elegant Texas screenwriter who penned the teleplay for the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove and worked on such features as...
William D. Wittliff. Writer: Legends of the Fall. Bill Wittliff was born in Taft, a small town in south Texas, in 1940. After his parents divorced, he and his brother Jim moved with their mother to Gregory, Texas, where Mrs. Wittliff ran a small telephone office during World War II (these experiences provided the basis for "Raggedy Man," Wittliff's feature film).
Jun 12, 2019 · One day after celebrating his 56th wedding anniversary with his wife Sally, William Wittliff – oh, let's just call him "Bill" – suffered a heart attack and died. He was 79.
