"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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Frank Waters Chronology Click dates of interest in table below.
1970-2002 Published works appear in Pink. 1970 -1971
Met Barbara Hayes, summer 1970.
Awarded Rockefeller Foundation grant, used for new roof and research in
Mexico and Guatemala, fall - spring. Conversations with Frank
Waters, by John R. Milton, was published.
June 30, 1971: Pike’s Peak published by Swallow Press, Inc.
1973
Awarded Honorary Doctorate by
University of Albuquerque.
Awarded Honorary Doctorate by
Colorado State University.
Frank Waters (literary
criticism), by Thomas J. Lyon, was published.
December 28: To Possess the Land published by Swallow Press, Inc. 1974
Wintered in Sedona, Arizona.
Traveled to Vera Cruz and eastern coast of Mexico with Barbara Hayes. 1975
Given New Mexico Arts
Commission Award for Achievement and Excellence in Literature.
Annual “Studies in Frank
Waters” publication initiated, edited by Dr. Charles Adams.
Wintered in Sedona, Arizona.
June 16: Mexico Mystique published by Swallow Press, Inc. 1976
Awarded Honorary Doctorate by
New Mexico State University.
Fall, traveled in China.
Wintered in Tucson, Arizona.
Drove to Alamos, Mexico, with Barbara Hayes (Christmas - New Year’s).
1977
Awarded Honorary Life
Membership in National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
Purchased Tucson home with Barbara Hayes.
1978
Presented “A Nebulous
Frontier” at University of Alberta conference, Banff, Canada.
Awarded Honorary Doctorate by
University of New Mexico. Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Colorado College, Colorado Springs. Drove to and from Mexico and Guatemala with Barbara Hayes; married December 23. 1980
Awarded Life Membership in
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
Wrote chapter “Neihardt and the Vision of Black Elk” for Sender of Words, ed. by Vine Deloria, Jr.
1981
May, gave annual W.Y.
Evans-Wentz Lecture at Stanford University, titled “Symbols and Sacred
Mountains: Comparable Themes in Buddhism and American Indian Religion,” later
published.
May, spoke on “Prelude to
Change,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas, commencement; published in Nevada
Historical Society Quarterly. William
Fiero made multi-media Waters presentation.
July, honored and spoke on “A Pike’s Peak Trilogy” at Penrose Library, Colorado Springs. Videotaped by New Mexico State Library, Santa Fe.
Awarded Fellowship for Creative
Writers by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Wrote chapter “Los
Angeles,” published in spring-summer South Dakota Review.
September 1, 1981: Mountain
Dialogues published by Swallow Press, Inc.
1982
January, had first hip
replacement surgery. Traveled in
Peru and Bolivia. Awarded Honorary Doctorate by
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. October, spoke at Three Rivers conference, Quebec, with Tony Hillerman and Rudolfo Anaya.
March 2, 1982:
Cuchama and Sacred Mountains by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, edited by
Frank Waters and Dr. Charles Adams, published by Swallow Press, Inc.
1983
Awarded Honorary Doctorate by
University of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs. Frank Waters: A Bibliography
with Relevant Selections from His Correspondence,
by Terence A. Tanner, was published.
1984
Spoke on “Visions and
Revisions,” University of New Mexico.
The Lizard Woman, reprint
of Fever Pitch with new foreword, published by Thorpe Springs Press.
January, had pneumonia, first of many times. 1985
Nominated for Nobel Prize in
Literature, first of numerous times.
Spoke on “The One Great Book of Life,” Henderson Public Library, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Spoke on “The Regional
Imperative” at symposium “Sundays in Tutt Library with Frank Waters,”
Colorado Springs, July 28.
Spoke on “Writers’ Roots
and Literary Influences” (“Writers and Roots”) at Tucson Public
Library’s Writers of the Purple Sage conference.
Frank Waters: A
Retrospective Anthology, by Charles L.
Adams, was published.
1986
Spoke on “Visions of the
Good: What Literature Affirms and How” at Winona, Minnesota, conference.
Visited by actress Leslie Ann Warren, who had optioned The Woman at Otowi Crossing (previously optioned by Mosk, Mudd, Rainer). Flight from Fiesta published by Rydal Press. 1987
Revised The Woman at Otowi
Crossing. Revision published by
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press.
Read at second Writers of the
Purple Sage conference. Wrote
article “Kokopilau, the Humpbacked Flute Player,” published by Shaman’s
Drum, one of numerous articles written.
Interviewed by National Public
Radio. Eye problems intensified.
Audio cassettes published: The
Man Who Killed the Deer and Frank Waters, Interview. 1988
Honored by Friends of the
Harwood Library for unique contributions to the life and literature of Taos and
the Southwest.
June, spoke on “A New Look at an Old World
View,” Greer Garson Theater, St. John’s College, Santa Fe.
September, spoke on “TheTide
of Change,” Colorado College, and “Women Who Have Influenced Me Most,”
Women’s Educational Society luncheon, Colorado Springs.
Inducted into Colorado Springs High School’s “Hall of Fame.” 1989
August, lectured at Baca
campus, Crestone, Colorado, for Colorado College. September, interviewed in Taos
by Charles Adams and Robert Potts for four-day series of videotapes sponsored by
Bay Foundation, New York. Wrote chapter “The Changing
and Unchangeable West” for Growing Up Western, ed. by Clarus Backes.
Hip reconstructed second time. 1990
Began working on essays for Of
Time and Change. Honored at Taos Press Women’s
luncheon. Wrote foreword for R.C. Gordon-McCutchan’s
The Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue Lake, one of many forewords,
introductions, prefaces, blurbs, book reviews, and testimonials written by
Waters. Began using oxygen for
emphysema.
Eternal Desert, with photographs by David Muench, published by Arizona Department of Transportation, Arizona Highways 1991
Frank Waters Park dedicated
across from Waters’ birthplace in Colorado Springs.
Producer Alton Walpole
purchased film rights to The Woman at Otowi Crossing.
Taos artist Rod Goebel painted Waters’ portrait, now in Frank Waters Room, U. of N.M. A Sunrise Brighter Still (literary
criticism of Waters’ writings), by Alexander Blackburn, was published.
1992
Taos mayor proclaimed July 25
“Frank Waters Day.” Named first winner of
“Spirit of the West” Literary Achievement Award of
Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association.
Reminisced with Charles Hathaway about early Colorado Springs for Fall Heritage Series of the Colorado Pioneers Museum (tapes available).
Visited niece, Arleene Arnell, in Del Mar, California. Treated for skin cancer and
broken leg. Audio cassette published, Hopi: Myths of Native American Lore Recounted by a Famous American. Audio cassette made of interview with D. Dunaway, UNM, "Writing the Southwest." 1993
Frank Waters Foundation (FWF)
established. FWF newsletter started.
Honored with first Frank Waters
Writing Award medal at first annual Pikes Peak Writers’ Conference, Colorado
Springs. New Mexico Governor Bruce King
proclaimed June 26 “Frank Waters Day.”
Frank Waters: Man and Mystic, ed. by Vine Deloria, Jr., was published. Began Frank
Waters Southwest Writing Award.
Brave Are My People published
by Clear Light Publishers
1994
Spoke on and read at “Meet the Artists” series, Taos Inn, Taos. Read from Mountain Dialogues
and “The Horses” (unpublished) at Adams State College, Alamosa College.
First Frank Waters Southwest
Writing Award won by Professor Jose Martinez; sponsored
by Frank Waters Foundation and Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation for
the Creative Arts. Dedication of Frank Waters
Room, Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico. Honored as Taos County Living Treasure, and as New Mexico Living Treasure. 1995
Died at Arroyo Seco home, June
3. Opera of The Woman at Otowi Crossing performed in St. Louis, Missouri, June 15. 1996
First Frank Waters Foundation studio for creative persons completed on Arroyo Seco property.
FWF presented lecture series at
Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, on Frank Waters: the Man and His Land/ the Women/
the Work. Groups and speakers discussed The
Man Who Killed the Deer and Waters at Second Annual Book Discussion
Day, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, Colorado. Ted Egri sculpted granite Frank Waters deer memorial, positioned in FWF aspen grove next to granite chair from China. 1997
Presentation of bronze Frank Waters plaque (created by sculptor Mark Rossi) at Southwest Literature Room, Taos Public Library. 1998
October: Of Time and Change published by MacMurray & Beck. 1999
Celebrating the Coyote (memoir
of 25-year relationship with Waters), by Barbara Waters, was published.
2000
Frank Waters Foundation Press published its first book, Back-Alley Boys by Charles Hathaway, a short memoir about growing up with Frank Waters. 2002 April - Tenth Frank Waters Award for Excellence in Literature presented by Pikes Peak District Library to Barbara Kingsolver. June - Pure Waters: Frank Waters and the Quest for the Cosmic published -- Waters' second posthumous book. July - Frank Waters Centennial Celebration held July 25-28 in Taos, NM. July 25, his birthday, declared Frank Waters Day locally and statewide.
Compiled by:
Frank Waters (first draft)
Charles Adams (expanded second
draft)
Barbara Waters (expanded third draft) Go to Waters' Chronology -> 1902-1945
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