Don Graham, Editor
Lone Star Literature
A Texas Anthology
Foreword by Larry McMurtry
"An indispensable addition to the canon
of Texas letters."
—Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express News
A VAST LAND combining the West, the South, and
the Border, small dusty towns and gleaming modern
cities, Texas has a history and identity all its own, and
a mythology bigger than the Lone Star State itself. In
this anthology, selected as a Southwest Book of the
Year in 2003, Don Graham has rounded up a comprehensive
collection of writings that provides an
overview of the diversity and excellence of Texas literature
and reveals its vital contribution to America's
literary landscape. The result is a sometimes rowdy,
always artful panorama of fable and truth, humor and
pathos—all growing out of the state that continues
to stimulate the collective imagination like no other.
"Every state deserves an anthology edited with the
affection Graham has for his adopted home. . . . Lone
Star Literature is, by turns, humorous, grandiose, larger
than life, and touching."—Pam Kingsbury, Library
Journal
DON GRAHAM is J. Frank Dobie Regents
Professor of English at the University of
Texas at Austin. A writer-at-large with Texas
Monthly Magazine, he is also the author of Kings
of Texas.
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