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Taking a fresh look at a landmark Texas writer who hasn’t been the subject of a biography since Lon Tinkle’s 1978 An American Original, this book reveals J. Frank Dobie as a “free-range thinker” who fought for liberal political causes.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Liberated Mind
- Part 1: Rebel of the Lost Cause
- Chapter 1: Along the Ramirenia
- Chapter 2: The Education of a Brush Countryman, 1904-1912
- Chapter 3: From Texas to New York, 1913-1914
- Chapter 4: Fighting Conformity, Courting Bertha, 1914-1916
- Chapter 5: The Great War, 1915-1919
- Part 2: The Rising Star
- Chapter 6: A Rangeland Epiphany, 1920-1921
- Chapter 7: The Making of a Folklorist, 1921-1923
- Chapter 8: The Rising Star, 1923-1926
- Chapter 9: Voices of the Southwest, 1926-1930
- Chapter 10: Regionalism Goes National, 1929-1930
- Part 3: Mr. Texas
- Chapter 11: Dobie in Bloom, 1930-1934
- Chapter 12: Into Mexico, 1933-1935
- Chapter 13: The Flavor of Texas, 1936
- Chapter 14: The Austin Liberals, 1936-1938
- Chapter 15: Apache Gold vs. Pale Horse, 1937-1939
- Part 4: Texas Needs Brains
- Chapter 16: The Longhorns, 1939-1941
- Chapter 17: True Patriotism and the Singing Governor, 1940-1941
- Chapter 18: The Liberal Hero, 1941-1943
- Chapter 19: A Contemporary of Himself, 1943-1946
- Chapter 20: A Texan in England, 1943-1946
- Chapter 21: Texas Needs Brains, 1946-1947
- Part 5: Elder Statesman
- Chapter 22: Coyote Wisdom, 1948-1953
- Chapter 23: Elder Statesman, 1951-1958
- Chapter 24: Literary Dictator, 1952-1960
- Chapter 25: End of an Era, 1955-1959
- Part 6: Twilight
- Chapter 26: One Touch of Nature, Plus, 1960-1962
- Chapter 27: Sunset, 1962-1964
- Chapter 28: Dobie's Legacy
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Steven L. Davis is the Assistant Curator at the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University–San Marcos and serves as editor of the Southwestern Writers Collection book series, published by the University of Texas Press. His previous books include Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond.
