Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: FOOTE AND WHARTON, TEXAS -- Chapter 2: FORMATIVE YEARS AND THE CALL OF ACTING -- Chapter 3: FINDING A VOCATION: FROM ACTING TO WRITING -- Chapter 4: TEXAS PLAYWRIGHT ON BROADWAY AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -- Chapter 5: RETURN TO BROADWAY: THE CHASE -- Chapter 6: THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION -- Chapter 7: THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL: THREE VERSIONS -- Chapter 8: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE -- Chapter 9: PEOPLE AND THEMES -- Chapter 10: COUNTRY MUSIC: THE TRAVELING LADY, BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL, AND TENDER MERCIES -- Chapter 11: ADAPTATIONS OF HARPER LEE, FAULKNER, O'CONNOR, AND STEINBECK -- Chapter 12: THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, PART 1 -- Chapter 13: THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, PART 2 -- Chapter 14: ONE-ACTS OF THE 1980s: DISINTEGRATING HOMES AND DISPLACED PERSONS -- Chapter 15: GREEK TRAGEDY AND FULL-LENGTH PLAYS ACROSS THE HUDSON -- Chapter 16: AMAZING CLIMAX THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA -- CONCLUSION: THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HORTON FOOTE -- CHRONOLOGY -- GENEALOGY -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.