Search Date: July 3, 2002
What I offer students, teachers and people who love literature is a depth of information and a perspective on how narrative works that most have not encountered.
~ Terry Davis, in his MetroNet Minnesota Author listing
http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/present/view_details.cfm?id=13
We watch movies in an analytical way to discover how screen stories are structured, we conceive a story for the screen, and we write a screenplay. The class has two major values: 1) It expands our understanding of how stories work and how they are structured; and 2) It introduces us to the screenplay form
Davis's Course Description, MNSU Mankato
http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~jackst/679/englishgradcoursecrwriting.htm
Established in 1984 by former Topeka West librarian, Mike Printz, this program annually hosts a nationally known author. Students are selected to participate in a two-day workshop with such authors as Terry Davis, Robert Cormier, Chris Crutcher, Denise Low, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Kevin Young. Traditionally the program is held in the fall.
The Mike Printz Author-in-Residence Program
(Davis was the first author invited to participate)
http://www.topeka.k12.ks.us/twest/departments/lmc/special_programs.html
Vision Quest Trailer (1985), provided by VideoPipeline
http://us.imdb.com/Trailers?0090270
Vision Quest, the film, production details.
http://washington.pacificnorthwestmovies.com/VisionQuest/
Parent Cindy Hochstetler won part of her battle to get "shocking and pornographic" books out of Hughes Junior High School classrooms and libraries, and was continuing to fight the remainder. In April, Hochstetler filed complaints against library books "Deliverance," by James Dickey, "Vision Quest," by Terry Davis, and "Sex Education," by Jenny Davis.
Bismark ND School Libraries
http://www.thefileroom.org/FileRoom/documents/Cases/34bismarckSchool.html | 
