From Guy Clark to the last known 9/11 search-and-rescue dog, we lost a lot of great Texans this year. Here are the people we'll miss.
People we'll miss
We first published John Graves in Texas Monthly in 1974. It was a selection from Hardscrabble, his book about his life on the place he and his wife Jane and his daughters Sally and Helen carved out of, and into, the limestone and scrub brush of the Upper Brazos country.
Stephen Harrigan bids farewell to John Graves, a great man of Texas letters, who died July 30, 2013.
He was a world-renowned piano prodigy whose romanticism and technical virtuosity inspired thousands and famously helped thaw the Cold War. But as a visit to his hometown of Kilgore made clear to me, Van Cliburn was also a Texan, a Southerner, a Baptist, a patriot, and a man who loved black-eyed peas as much as I do.