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TEXAS AUTHORS 51
Year-Author Title
1969 Rev. C. C. White, Ada Morehead Holland
........................ No Quittin' Sense
Willard Marsh......... Beachhead in Bohemia
Bill C. Malone ........... Country Music, USA
Virginia H. Taylor
........... The Franco-Texan Land Company
Frances Alexander.. Pebbles From a Broken Jar
Jo Alys Downs........ A Thomason Sketchbook
1970 Dr. Gene Schulze....... The Third Face of War
Paul Horgan ................... Whitewater
Richard B. Henderson
....... Maury Maverick: A Political Biography
William Curry Holden
........ The Espuela Land and Cattle Company
Elroy Bode ....... Requiem for a WASP School
R. G. Vliet...... The Man With the Black Mouth
Betsy Warren...... Indians Who Lived in Texas
John Howard Griffin
.......... The Visual World of Thomas Merton
1971 Charles W. Ferguson
... ........... Organizing to Beat the Devil:
Methodists and the Making of America
Thomas Parke Hughes
......... Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer
Arthur M. Sampley . . . . Selected Poems 1937-1971
Nolan Porterfield.......... A Way of Knowing
John Edward Weems, Jane Weems
... ............ Dream of Empire: A Human
History of the Republic of Texas
Willie Morris ................. Good Old Boy
Jo Alys Downs........... Paul Kane's Frontier
Charles Evans...... The Howard Hughes Series
1972 Joe Goulden ................. Superlawyers
Marshall Terry ............... The Antichrist
John W illiams. ................... Augustus
A. C. Greene. ...............The Last Captive
Larry L. King ............. The Last Frontier
Gene Shuford........ Selected Poems, 1933-1971
William R. Holman
... ............ This Bitterly Beautiful Land
Byrd Baylor ................ When Clay Sings
1973 Lewis L. Gould
....... Progressives and Prohibitionists, Texas
Democrats in the Wilson Era
Shelby Reed Hearon (co-winner)
........................ The Second Dune
Chester L. Sullivan (co-winner) . . . Alligator Gar
Donald E. Green
......Land of the Underground Rain, Irrigation
on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970
Elroy Bode .......... The Making of a Legend
Michael Blackman
....... The Golden Shadows Old West Museum
Fania Kruger............... Selected Poems
Loula Grace Erdman ....... A Bluebird Will Do
A. C. Greene (co-winner) ..... A Christmas Tree
and Dallas, The Deciding Years
Sarah Morgan (co-winner)
... ............. The Saga of Texas Cookery
1974 John Graves ................. Hard Scrabble
C. W. Smith............. Thin Men of Haddam
Edgar B. Kincaid Jr...... The Bird Life of Texas
Griffin Smith Jr............. Forgotten Places
J. Y. Bryan .................. Frontier Vigil
Michael Ryan ........ Threats Instead of Trees
Joan L. Nixon ..... The Alligator Under the Bed
David Holman
...... Letters of Hard Times in Texas, 1840-1890
1975 Paul Horgan . ............. Lamy of Santa Fe
Donald Barthelme........... The Dead Father
Elizabeth A. H. John......... Storms Brewed in
Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation
of Indians, Spanish and French
in the Southwest, 1540-1795
Archer Fullingim .......... A Country Editor's
View of Life
Catherine Petroski........ Beautiful My Mane
in the Wind
Kurth Sprague............ The Promise Kept
Byrd Baylor............. The Desert Is Theirs
William R. Holman...... Printing Arts in TexasYear-Author Title
1976 Thomas Thompson.......... Blood and Money
Max Apple.......... The Oranging of America
Lawrence Goodwyn ... Democratic Promise: The
Populist Movement in America
Griffin Smith Jr...... "Why Does Dolph Briscoe
Want to Be Governor?"
Walt McDonald .................. The Track
Walt McDonald ............... Caliban in Blue
William R. Holman ...... Baudelaire to Beckett
1977 William Humphrey .... Farther Off From Heaven
R. G. Vilet ...................... Solitudes
Frank Vandiver .................. Black Jack:
The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
Gary Cartwright
.... The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk
Jack Myers (co-winner) .... The Family War
Glenn Hardin (co-winner) ............. Giants
Pat Carr ................ Indian Burial from
The Women in the Mirror Collection
Byrd Baylor . . Guess Who My Favorite Person Is
William D. Wittliff
......... J. Roy White's Hill Country Revisited
1978 Lon Tinkle............ An American Original:
The Life of J. Frank Dobie
Shelby Hearon ........... A Prince of a Fellow
Walt W. Rostow
... The World Economy: History and Prospect
Ronnie Dugger . "To a Novelist Dying Young"
Carolyn Osborn (co-winner)
............. The Accidental Trip to Jamaica
Allen Wier (co-winner)...... Campbell Oakley's
Gospel Sun Shines on Roy Singing Grass
Tess Gallagher (co-winner) ....... Under Stars
Bin Ramke (co-winner)
........The Difference Between Day and Night
William D. Wittliff
............. David Novros: Fresco Drawings
1979 Gary Cartwright ..............Blood Will Tell
Leon Hale........................ Addison
John Davidson.......... The Long Road North
Richard West......... Only the Strong Survive
Laura Furman. ................... Eldorado
Albert Goldbarth ........... Different Fleshes
1980 Michael Mewshaw ............ Life for Death
Laura Furman ..............The Glass House
Joel Warren Barna (co-winner)
. . Inbetween and Houston City Magazine article
Bryan Woolley (co-winner)
............... Dallas Times Herald Column
Naomi Shihab Nye ...... Different Ways to Pray
David Hall ........ The Smell in Bertha's House
Myra Livingston .......... No Way of Knowing
Tom Lea (First "Career in Texas Letters"
Award)
The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas (best book
design award; most important contribution
to knowledge)
Poets Laureate
Texas Legislature designates Texas Poets Laure-
ate and alternates. Poetry Society of Texas supplied
this list for recent years.
1932-1934 Judd Mortimer Lewis, Houston.
1934-1936 Aline T. Michaelis, Austin.
1936-1939 Grace Noll Crowell, Dallas.
1939-1941 Lexie Dean Robertson, Rising Star.
1941-1943 Nancy Richey Ranson, Dallas.
1943-1945 Dollilee Davis Smith, Cleburne.
1945-1947 David Russell, Dallas.
1947-1949 Aline B. Carter, San Antonio.
1949-1951 Carlos Ashley, Llano.
1951-1953 Arthur M. Sampley, Denton.
1953-1955 Mildred Lindsey Railborn, San Angelo;
Dee Walker, Texas City, alternate.
1955-1957 Pierre Bernard Hill, Hunt.
1957-1959 Margaret Royalty Edwards, Waco.
1959-1961 Van Chandler, Kingsville;
Edna Coo Majors, Colorado City, alternate.
1961 Lorena Simon, Port Arthur.
1962 Marvin Davis Winsett, Dallas.
1963 Gwendolyn Bennett Pappas, Houston;
Vassar Miller, Houston, alternate.
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