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Don Graham brings together the history, color, and character of Texas’s capital city since 1839 when it was selected, on the advice of Mirabeau B. Lamar, as the site for a new capital of the then-Republic of Texas.
Essays, fiction, and poetry reveal the variety of literary responses to Austin through the decades and are organized in a roughly chronological fashion to reveal the themes, places, and personalities that have defined the life of the city.
Austin was always about three things—natural beauty, government, and education—and thus many of the pieces in this volume dwell upon one and sometimes all of these themes.
Besides O. Henry, the other most important figures in the city’s history were J. Frank Dobie, Roy Bedichek, and Walter P. Webb: folklorist, naturalist, historian. During their heyday, from the 1930s through the early 1960s, they were the face of literary culture in the city. They remain a source of interest, pride, and sometimes controversy.
Austin is a well-known haven of liberal political activism, represented by such well-known figures as Lyndon B. Johnson, Ralph Yarborough, Ann and David Richards, Liz Carpenter, Willie Morris, John Henry Faulk, and Molly Ivins.
The city is also a haven for literary writers, many of whom appear in these pages: Carolyn Osborn, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Dagoberto Gilb, Stephen Harrigan, and Lawrence Wright, to name a few. Among the poets, Thomas Whitbread, Dave Oliphant, David Wevill, and Christopher Middleton have long been on the scene.
Certain sites recur—the University Tower, Barton Springs, various watering holes of another kind—so that for anybody who has ever spent time in Austin will experience twinges of nostalgia for vanished icons, closed-down venues, long-gone sites of pleasure brought to life once again, in these pages.
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About the Author
Don Graham is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American & English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas (1983); No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy (1989); Giant Country: Essays on Texas (1998); and Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire (2003). In 2003 Graham edited Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande. Graham has lived in Austin since the late 1970s.
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"Mr. Graham has developed, via nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, a clear picture of Austin, its history and its present realities and postures." -- Tom Dodge, The Dallas Morning News, May 6, 2007
"[Graham] should be proud of this baby. [His] thorough detective work at finding the best among the obscure is delightful, as usual." -- Tom Zigal, contributor to Literary Austin and author of the Kurt Muller mystery series
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- PublisherTCU Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0875653421
- ISBN 13 9780875653426
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages448
- EditorGraham Don
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