Notes From Texas: On Writing in the Lone Star State

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Abernethy, F. E., 188, 236–237 Abrahams, Roger, 56 Adams, J. B., 133–134 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain), 109 Adventures With a Texas Humanist (Lee), 138 After Pa Was Shot (Alter), 18 Alabama, 132–139 Altamira, 83 Alter, Judy, 13–26 biography, 6, 13 career, 25–26 collaborative novels, 22, 137 early years and career, 14–16 on fictional voice, 20–23 Kelton and, 100–101 literary compilations with Lee, 137 Vick as publisher and, 238 writing influences and inspirations , 17–20, 23–25 American Voodoo (Davis, R.), 240 American Wildflower Florilegium (Andrews), 239 Amon Carter Museum, 17, 151 Anaya, Rudolfo A., 70 Anderson, John Q., 127 Andrews, Jean, 239 Aristotle, 164, 165 Arnold, Matthew, 65, 124 Asherton, Texas, 225 As I Lay Dying (play adaptation), 34, 35–37, 39 Ask a Policeman (Hinojosa-Smith), 74 Asprey, Robert, 241 At Belleau Wood (Asprey), 241 INDEX 246 The Back of a Bear (King), 116–117 The Badman of the West (Hendrick), 146 Baker, Paul, 30, 34, 35, 36–37 “The Ballad of Freckles Brown” (Steagall, R.), 215 Ballentine, Betty and Ian, 100 Balzac, Honoré de, 124–125 Bangs, Texas, 227 Barker, S. Omar, 101 Batchelor, Claude, 116 Battle Lines (Reasoner, J.), 155 Becky and Her Friends (HinojosaSmith ), 73 Bedichek, Roy, 237 Berry, Betsy, 59–60 Biffle, Kent, 240 The Big Thicket (Gunter), 240 Bivens, Andrew, 212–213 Black, Baxter, 211–212 Black Cats, Hoot Owls and Water Witches (Davis, K.), 237 Black Cinema Treasures Lost and Found (Jones, G. W.), 241–242 Blanket, Texas, 155 Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya), 70 Boatright, Mody, 96 “Born to this Land” (Steagall, R.), 214 Bowen, Jimmy, 208 Boy’s Life (magazine), 94–95 Brakefield, Jay, 237 Brammer, Billy Lee, 52–53, 117–118, 242 Brewer, J. Mason, 128 Briar Patch, 135 Brown, Freckles, 215 IN D E X 247 Built in Texas (Abernethy, ed.), 236 Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 3–4 Butler, Ned, 221 “Bye Bye Jack. See You Soon” (Wilding), 60 Camp Bowie, 155 Canadian River, 204 Cannon, Hal, 210 Captain’s Rangers (Kelton), 146 Careless Whispers (Stowers), 222 The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 51 Center for Texas Studies, 131 Charles, Ray, 208, 209 Chateaubriand, Francois-René de, 160 Cherokee Rose (Alter), 24 Chihuahuan Desert, 2 Chillicothe, Texas, 29–30 Chrisman, Cal, 241 “The Chronicles of Toad” (Roach), 198 Ciardi, John, 53 Claros varones de Belken (HinojosaSmith ), 72 Classics of Texas Fiction (Lee), 130, 237 Cody’s Law (Reasoner, J., aka Hart), 153 Collective Heart: Texans in World War II (Roach, ed.), 186 “Comingor” (Reasoner, J.), 149–150 Conan the Usurper (Howard), 144 The Confessions of a Mad Dog, A Romp through the High-flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies (Milner), 242 Confessions of a White Racist (King), 115 Corbitt, Helen, 241 Cornish, Amy, 65 Coronado’s Children (Dobie), 3 Country: Essays on Texas (Graham, D.), 59 Cowboy Corner (radio show), 216 Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas (Graham, D.), 57–58 The Cowgirls (Roach), 195 Crenshaw, Troy, 194 Cross Timbers (Roach), 238 Cuny, Lynn, 240 Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 24 Dallas Morning News, 25, 240 Dallas Theater Center (DTC), 36, 38–39 Dance A Little Longer (Wood), 238 A Dance to the Music of Time (Powell), 73 Davis, Ken, 237 Davis, Rod, 240 The Day the Cowboys Quit (Kelton), 100 Death is Lighter Than a Feather (Westheimer), 240 Decatur, Texas, 20 Deere, John, 214 “A Defence of Poetry” (Shelley), 164 DeFoe, Daniel, 69 Derrida, Jacques, 57 Dobie, J. Frank, 3, 96, 243 Douglas, Deborah, 137 Dresser, Davis (aka Brett Halliday), 149, 150 DTC (Dallas Theater Center), 36, 38–39 NO T E S F R O M TE X A S 248 Dust Devils (Reasoner, J.), 156 East Texas, 18, 132, 135, 137 Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods (Roach and Linck), 137 E-Heart Press, 236–237 Ehrhart, W. D., 74 Ellsworth, Fanny, 97–98 Erickson, John, 238 Estampas del Valle y otras obras (Hinojosa-Smith), 70, 72 Faulkner, William, 34, 67 Fence-Cutting War, 154 “The Fence that Me and Shorty Built” (Steagall, R.), 214 Final Destinations (Woolley, et al.), 240 Finley, Richard, 143 Fisher, King, 37 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 67 Fix, Georgia Arbuckle, 23 Flynn, Robert, 27–43 author on, 5 on Bible, 40–41 biography, 7, 27–28 early years, 28–31 first novel, 38–39 military service, 31–32 parents, 37–38, 40 play adaptations by...