Texas: A Literary Portrait

by Don Graham

Book by Graham, Don

243 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1985

About the author

Don Graham was the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. He was the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire (2003), which won the Carr P. Collins Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters as best nonfiction book of the year, No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy and Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology (2006). He was a past president of the Texas Institute of Letters and a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly.

Reviews

[Shelley Alongi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book. I learned about some others I would most likely read somewhere in my future explorations. I was encouraged because at one point he says that some of his choices for inclusion in his representation of Texas others were not any artistic value. I chuckled to think that perhaps someday my own work might be considered in someone’s book even if it doesn’t receive national a claim. I thought some of the titles work intriguing and I love to pick it up at some point. I recognize two of the other and thought of that one either particular was a very good story writer. In addition to being educated about novelists used Texas as they’re setting I also learned more about the geography of the state which I now call home. Somehow, the state does not seem so down anymore. I am looking forward to discovering some new office. Oh and as a final note even though this book is written by someone who is clearly at home in academic settingss, The book was easy to understand and written in a form that was easily understood. In other words, his writing style is not so high and mighty that it becomes heavy and impossible to decipher. It was a good read.