Rechy, who has always resisted categorization and still bristles at labels, made a literary splash in 1963 with the publication of his first novel, “City of Night,” which portrayed a gay street hustler. This archive will nourish the significant and ongoing scholarly interest in Rechy for generations to come." “Rechy carefully maintained his literary papers from the very beginning of his career and the breadth and depth of the resulting collection is extraordinary. "John Rechy is a literary legend and is one of the greatest writers to come from the American Southwest,” said David Coleman, director of the Wittliff Collections, which also holds the papers of Cormac McCarthy, Sandra Cisneros and recently deceased archive namesake, Bill Wittliff. The Wittliff Collections at the Texas State University has picked up the complete literary papers of internationally acclaimed El Paso-born writer John Rechy, a pioneer of American, LGBTQ and Chicano literature.
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