Gary B. Borders

Gary B. Borders worked as a writer, photographer, editor and publisher for newspapers throughout Texas and Kansas for more than 40 years. He won more than three dozen awards for editorials, column writing, photography and investigative reporting during his career.

"The Loblolly Chronicles: A Memoir of Sorts" is Borders' sixth book. It contains essays written since 2010 on everything from life on a timber farm to our crisis in democracy to why newspapers still matter, and the futility of naming cats.

Borders has written for Texas Monthly, World Wildlife Magazine, Texas Observer and Airstream Life. Borders began writing a weekly column in 1982 and continues to do so today. He also records weekly commentaries for Red River Radio, the NPR network for East Texas, Western Louisiana and Southern Arkansas.

Borders' five previous books are: "@longviewtx150," with O. Rufus Lovett; "Yours Faithfully, J.A.: The Life and Writings of H.B. Fox, the Circleville Philosopher, "The Loblolly Chronicles: Essays by an East Texas Newspaper Editor," both by Loblolly Publishing; "A Hanging in Nacogdoches," by the University of Texas Press; and "Behind and Beyond the Pine Curtain" by Eakin Press. His essay, "The Tobacco Queen of Texas," was included in an anthology produced by the University of North Texas Press.

He and his wife, Dr. Julie Teel-Borders, live on a timber farm north of Longview, Texas with two dogs, two cats, and a donkey named Pancho.