History Lesson 
Writers Bloc
Texas has produced reams of folks with the write stuff, from Katherine Anne Porter to Mary Karr, J. Frank Dobie to John Phillip Santos. In fact, they're all over the map.
Illustration by A.J. Garces
Rita says: Recently read some of my old TMs that I had saved. Always looking out for new authors I have not read before. Came across an old article by Don Graham about George Sessions Perry and "Hold Autumn in Your Hand." I ordered the book from Amazon and also the movie, "The Southern." I have just found this present article and have written down all the writers and their works. Thanks for the info. (My favorite writer is Larry McMurtry.) Looking back over the old issues made me wonder why I had let my subscription end. Then I remembered it was because the print was so small that it was difficult to read even with my glasses. But with renewed inspiration; I have renewed my subscription. Thanks for the tips! (January 30th, 2009 at 1:52pm)
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Native Texans Michael Adams, Killeen, 1946 John Houghton Allen, Austin, 1909 Dillon Anderson, McKinney, 1906 Edward Anderson, Weatherford, 1905 Philip Atlee (James Atlee Phillips), Fort Worth, 1923 Neal Barrett, Jr., San Antonio, 1929 Rick Bass, Fort Worth, 1958 Gertrude Beasley, near Cross Plains, 1892 Mike Blakely, Huntsville, 1958 Elroy Bode, Kerrville, 1931 Cindy Bonner, Corpus Christi, 1953 Billy Lee Brammer, Dallas, 1929 Jay Brandon, Dallas, 1953 Bill Brett, Daisetta, 1922 J. Mason Brewer, Goliad, 1896 Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom), Dallas, 1953 William Broyles, Jr., Baytown, 1944 James Lee Burke, Houston, 1936 Sig Byrd, Brownwood, 1908 Ewing Campbell, Alice, 1940 Benjamin Capps, Dundee, 1922 Gary Cartwright, Dallas, 1934 Joe Coomer, Fort Worth, 1958 Madison Cooper, Waco, 1894 Jim Corder, Jayton, 1929 Max Crawford, Lubbock, 1938 Bill Crider, Mexia, 1941 Elizabeth Crook, Houston, 1959 Ruth Cross, Sylvan, 1887 James Crumley, Three Rivers, 1939 Tracy Daugherty, Midland, 1955 Carol Dawson, Corsicana, 1951 Al Dewlen, Memphis, 1921 J. Frank Dobie, Live Oak County, 1888 Robert Draper, Houston, 1957 John Erickson, Midland, 1943 Winston M. Estes, Quanah, 1917 T. R. Fehrenbach, San Benito, 1925 Robert Flynn, Chillicothe, 1932 Horton Foote, Wharton, 1916 Kinky Friedman, near Kerrville, 1944 Lionel Garcia, San Diego, 1935 Reginald Gibbons, Houston, 1947 Jewel Gibson, Bald Prairie, 1904 Fred Gipson, near Mason, 1908 Jovita González, Roma, 1899 Frank Goodwyn, Kingsville, 1911 William Goyen, Trinity, 1915 John Graves, Fort Worth, 1920 Ben K. Green, Cumby, 1912 A. C. Greene, Abilene, 1923 John Howard Griffin, Dallas, 1920 Patricia Browning Griffith, Fort Worth, 1935 Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Dallas, 1938 Leon Hale, Stephenville, 1921 J. Evetts Haley, Belton, 1901 Elithe Kirkland Hamilton, White Chapel, 1907 James Hannah, Lufkin, 1951 William Hauptman, Wichita Falls, 1942 Dave Hickey, Fort Worth, 1939 Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Mercedes, 1929 James Hoggard, Wichita Falls, 1941 Robert E. Howard, Peaster, 1906 Mary Gray Hughes, Brownsville, 1930 William Humphrey, Clarksville, 1924 Dan Jenkins, Fort Worth, 1929 Andrew Jolly, El Paso, 1933 Mary Karr, Port Arthur area, c. 1955 Elmer Kelton, near Andrews, 1926 Larry L. King, Putnam, 1929 Laura Krey, Galveston, 1890 Edwin Lanham, Weatherford, 1904 Joe Lansdale, Gladewater, 1951 Mary Lasswell, Brownsville, 1905 Aaron Latham, Spur, 1943 Tom Lea, El Paso, 1907 Michael Lind, Austin, 1962 David Lindsey, Kingsville, 1944 Pat LittleDog, College Station, 1941 Paul Scott Malone, Houston, 1952 Max Martínez, Gonzales, 1943 Walt McDonald, Lubbock, 1934 Bruce McGinnis, Gorman, 1941 Georgia McKinley, Dallas, c. 1920 Larry McMurtry, Wichita Falls, 1936 Vassar Miller, Houston, 1924 Pat Mora, El Paso, 1942 Berta Hart Nance, near Albany, 1883 Hermes Nye, Dallas, 1908 Mary King O'Donnell, "a small Texas city," 1909 Dave Oliphant, Fort Worth, 1939 William A. Owens, Pin Hook, 1905 Américo Paredes, Brownsville, 1915 Tom Pendleton (Edmund Van Zandt), Fort Worth, 1916 George Sessions Perry, Rockdale, 1910 Katherine Anne Porter, Indian Creek, 1890 John Rechy, El Paso, 1934 Jan Reid, Abilene, 1945 Clay Reynolds, Quanah, 1949 Rick Riordan, San Antonio, 1964 Tomás Rivera, Crystal City, 1935 Jane Gilmore Rushing, Pyron, 1925 Jim Sanderson, San Antonio, 1953 Lisa Sandlin, Beaumont, 1951 Annette Sanford, Cuero, 1929 John Phillip Santos, San Antonio, 1956 Dorothy Scarborough, Mt. Carmel, 1878 Sandra Scofield, Wichita Falls, 1943 Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Fort Worth, 1931 C. W. Smith, Corpus Christi, 1940 Terry Southern, Alvarado, 1924 Bruce Sterling, Brownsville, 1954 Hart Stilwell, Yoakum, 1902 Janis Stout, Fort Worth, 1939 Jesse Sublett, Johnson City, 1954 Edward Swift, Woodville, 1943 Douglas Terry, Houston, 1950 John W. Thomason, Huntsville, 1893 Thomas Thompson, Fort Worth, 1933 Frank X. Tolbert, Amarillo, 1912 Tino Villanueva, San Marcos, 1941 Stanley Walker, Lampasas, 1898 Don Webb, Amarillo, 1960 Walter Prescott Webb, Panola County, 1888 David Westheimer, Houston, 1917 Elizabeth Lee Wheaton, Sherman, c. 1910 Charley C. White, near Shelbyville, c. 1880's Allen Wier, San Antonio, 1946 George Williams, Rogers, 1902 Janice Woods Windle, San Antonio, 1938 William Wittliff, Taft, 1940 Jane Roberts Wood, Memphis, 1929 Bryan Woolley, Gorman, 1937 Thomas Zigal, Galveston, 1948 Got here as soon as they could. Andy Adams, Indiana Donald Barthelme, Pennsylvania Roy Bedichek, Illinois Sarah Bird, Michigan James Carlos Blake, Tampico, Mexico Pat Carr, Wyoming Sandra Cisneros, Illinois Laura Furman, New York Peter Gent, Michigan Dagoberto Gilb, California William H. Goetzmann, Washington, D.C. Stephen Harrigan, Oklahoma Shelby Hearon, Kentucky John Irsfeld, Minnesota Molly Ivins, California Preston Jones, New Mexico Peter La Salle, Rhode Island Jim Lehrer, Kansas Beverly Lowry, Tennessee James Magnuson, Wisconsin Cormac McCarthy, Rhode Island Naomi Shihab Nye, Missouri Carolyn Osborn, Tennessee Benjamin Alíre Sáenz, New Mexico Doug Swanson, New Mexico Marshall Terry, Ohio Jim Thompson, Oklahoma R. G. Vliet, Illinois Mary Willis Walker, Wisconsin Donley Watt, Oklahoma David Marion Wilkinson, Arkansas Lawrence Wright, Oklahoma   My Library   |
