Texas Literary Outlaws - Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond

At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers - the Mad Dogs: Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent - stood apart from Texas's conservative establishment. Steven L. Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of writers who came of age during a period of rapid social change.

About the author

STEVEN L. DAVIS has won a PEN USA award for research nonfiction and is the current president of the Texas Institute of Letters. He is a longtime curator of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, which houses the literary papers of many leading writers--including several of the "Literary Outlaws."

Summary

At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers - the Mad Dogs: Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent - stood apart from Texas's conservative establishment. Steven L. Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of writers who came of age during a period of rapid social change.

Product details

• Authors: Steven L Davis, Steven L. Davis
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780875656755
• ISBN: 978-0-87565-675-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 798 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous