DON GRAHAM
Department of English The University of Texas at Austin
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION:
University of Texas at Austin, 1965-71; Ph.D. 1971; American Literature North Texas State University, 1963-64; M.A., 1964; English University of Maryland, 1962-63 North Texas State University, 1959-62; B.A., High Honors 1962; English Texas Christian University, 1958-9.
UT APPOINTMENTS:
J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature, 1987- present Professor, Department of English, 1985-present Associate Professor, Department of English, 1980-85 Assistant Professor, Department of English, 1976-80 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, Spring, 1990 Visiting Professor, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Fall, 1991
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1971-76 Instructor, Southwest Texas State University, 1964-69
HONORS/GRANTS:
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A.C. Greene Literary Award, West Texas Book & Music Festival, Abilene, Texas, September 17, 2008. Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award, 2006 Gold Medal (1st place), City and Regional Magazine Association for Category of General Criticism, 2006 Silver Medal (2nd place), City and Regional Magazine Association for Category of General Criticism, 2005 Carr P. Collins Prize for Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, for Kings of Texas, 2004 Spur Finalist of Western Writers of America for Kings of Texas, 2004 Lone Star Literature selected for One Arlington/One Book program, 2004. Finalist, Violet Crown Award for Nonfiction, Writers’ League of Texas, for Kings of Texas, 2003. Stone Reader, a feature-length documentary film dedicated to “Don Graham, wherever he is, who taught me that the great books are the ones you love,” 2003. C. B. Smith, Sr., Nash Phillips, Clyde Copus Centennial Chair Honoring Harry Hunt Ransom, 2003 Research Proposal Award, 2003 Heritage Award from Webb County Heritage Foundation: Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, 2003 Summerlee Research Grant, 2002 Silver Spurs Fellowship, 2001 Third Place in National Headliners Awards, Category: Magazines: Special Column on One Subject: Don Graham’s Texas Classics, May 5, 2001 Writer-at-Large, Texas Monthly, 2000- Grant from Center for Australian Studies, University of Texas, July, 1999 “High Profile: Don Ballew Graham” by Jerome Weeks, Dallas Morning News, April 11, 1999, pp. E1, E3-4. President, Texas Institute of Letters, 1998-2000. Violet Crown Award (Austin Writers League), 1998. Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of North Texas, 1997. Contributing Editor, Southwest Review Contributing Editor, The Texas Review Grant from Center for Australian Studies, University of Texas, 1997. Faculty Research Assignment, Fall, 1997. Vice-President, Texas Institute of Letters, 1996-98. Councilor, Texas Institute of Letters, 1994-96. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 3
2nd Place, Bad Cormac McCarthy Contest, El Paso Public Library, November, 1996 Quarterfinalist for “Audie’s War,” Lone Star Screenplay Contest, Fall, 1996. Michael Wilding’s Somewhere New: New & Selected Stories dedicated to Don Graham & Betsy Berry, 1996. Frank C. Irwin, Jr. Centennial Honors Professorship, 1994-95 Preston Lerner, “Truthful Texan” [profile of Don Graham], American West Airlines Magazine (September 1989), pp. 44-49. Fellow, Texas State Historical Association. 1989-. Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin, Fall, 1990 Outstanding Centennial Alumnus, University of North Texas, April 1990 Lillian and Tom B. Rhodes Centennial Teaching Fellowship for 1986-87 Texas Committee for the Humanities, with James W. Lee and William T. Pilkington, to write and produce film, 1985-86. Special Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 1985, Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin, Spring, 1985 Mini-Grant, Texas Committee or the Humanities, 1984. Special Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 1984. Special Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 1982. Special Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 1981. Summer Research Award, University of Texas at Austin, 1979. Special Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 1978. Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1975. Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1974. Summer Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1972.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2008.
Kings of Texas: The 150 Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire. Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Giant Country: Essays on Texas. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1998.
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No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1989. Paperback: Penguin Books, 1990.
Texas: A Literary Portrait. San Antonio: Corona Publishing Company, 1985.
Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas, Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1983.
The Fiction of Frank Norris: The Aesthetic Context. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.
Books Edited:
Literary Austin. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2007.
Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2003. Paperback edition: 2006.
South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.
The Texas Literary Tradition. Co-edited with James W. Lee and William T. Pilkington, Austin: College of Liberal Arts, 1983.
Critical Essays on Frank Norris, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980 Austin Writers Western Movies, eo-edited with William T. Pilkington. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
Books Under Contract:
State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents, scheduled for 2011
Michael Wilding & the Fiction of Instant Experience, scheduled for 2011
Introductions/Afterwords:
“Introduction” to Billy Lee Brammer, The Gay Place, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995, pp. ix-xxxiv. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 5
“Afterword” to John Irsfeld, Little Kingdoms. Dallas: SMU Press, 1989. Pp. 209-125.
Introduction" to the WPA Guide to Texas, Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1986. Pp. 1-7.
"Afterword" to Benjamin Capps, The Trail to Ogallala. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1985. Pp. 281-85.
"Introduction" to Hart Stilwell, Uncovered Wagon. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, August, 1985. Pp. ix-xvii.
"Afterword" to Elmer Kelton, The Good Old Boys. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1985. Pp. 255-257.
"Afterword" to Max Evans, The Hi-Lo Country. Aubuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. Pp. 157-161.
"Afterword" to William Eastlake, Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. Pp. 223- 230.
"Introduction" to Alan Le May, The Unforgiven. Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Pp. v-viii.
"Introduction" to Michael Straight, A Very Small Remnant. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. Pp. v-vii.
Films:
“Texas Literature: The Southern Experience," 28-minute documentary film co-produced with James W. Lee and Tom Pilkington. 1985.
Film Scripts: “Audie’s War,” 1996.
Sound Recordings:
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“Texas Myths and Texas Movies,” No. 15, Understanding Texas Myths: The Personal and Collective Mythology, Institute for the Humanities at Salado, Texas, 1984.
“The Works of Frank Norris.” Cassette 400. Undergraduate Audio Visual Collection, University of Texas.
Articles:
“Read Horseman, Pass By,” Texas Monthly, 38/3 (March, 2010), 175-176.
“Texas Culture,” The Alcalde, 98/1 (September-October, 2009), 14-15.
“Brokeback Mountain in My Rear-view Mirror,” Southwestern American Literature, 34/2 (Spring 2009), 45-51.
“Please Go Away: An Open Letter to Cormac McCarthy,” Texas Monthly (July 2008), pp. 96, 98, 100-101.
“Praying on the Prairie: Texas Writers and the Question of Religion,” Langdon Review of The Arts in Texas, 5 (2008), pp.162-171.
“Nine Ball, Corner Pocket,” in Notes from Texas: On Writing in the Lone Star State. Ed. W. C. Jameson. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2008. Pp. 46-61.
“Texas Book Festival Bookend Award: A Tribute to Rolando Hinojosa- Smith,” Texas Books in Review, XXVII, No. 4 (Winter 2007-08), p. 6.
“Mug’s Game: Literary Austin edited by Don Graham,” Texas Books in Review, XXVII, No. 4 (Winter 2007-08), pp. 7, 18.
“Deathless Prose,” Texas Observer. 100/3 (February 8, 2008), 29-31.
“Lone Star Cinema: A Century of Texas in the Movies,” in Twentieth- Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History, eds. John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008. Pp. 245- 266
“Dunces of Confederacy,” Texas Monthly, 35/7 (July, 2007), 82, 84, 86.
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“Auroras of Autumn: John Graves’ Valediction,” in John Graves, Writer, edited by Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007). Pp. 225-236.
“Mission Statement: The Alamo and the Fallacy of Historical Accuracy in Epic Filmmaking,” in Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, edited by Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2007). Pp. 242-269.
“Who Wrote A Vaquero of the Brush Country? A Strange Case of Demoted Authorship,” Southwest American Literature, 32/1 (Fall, 2006), 71-77.
“Zane Grey’s Texas—And Mine,” Desert Candle, III/10 (Summer 2006), pp. 6-8.
“Owens Country,” Texas Observer, 96/4 (February 24, 2006), pp. 29-31.
“Let’s Hear It for Cormac,” Texas Books in Review, XXV, Nos. 3&4 (Fall/Winter 2005-06), pp. 9-10.
“Two Women Look West,” Texas Monthly, February, 2006, p. 25.
“Island Getaway” (co-authored with Betsy Berry) in Travellers’ Tales. Edited by Michael Wilding and David Myers. Rockhampton, Queensland: Central Queensland University Press, 2005. Pp. 113-125.
“You’ve Got Mailer,” Texas Monthly, November, 2005, pp. 94, 96, 105, 108.
“All the Pretty Corpses,” Texas Monthly, August, 2005, pp. 78, 95, 97.
“Mary, Quite Contrary,” Texas Monthly, May, 2005, pp. 102, 104, 106, 108.
“The Confessional,” on-line interview, Texas Monthly, http://texasmonthly.printthis.clickability.com/ptcpt?action=cpt&title=Texas +Monthly+May…
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“Fallen Heroes,” Texas Monthly, February, 2005, pp. 70, 83-85.
“The State of Texas Lit,” Texas Observer, 96/23 (December 4, 2004), pp. 24-25.
“Accentuate the Negative,” Texas Monthly, November, 2004, pp. 98, 102, 117.
“The Voice on the Verandah” (fiction), in Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to Michael Wilding, edited by David Brooks and Brian Kiernan. Manohar, India: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, 2004. Pp. 247-258.
“Voice on the Verandah” (fiction), in Best Stories Under the Sun, eds. Michael Wilding and David Myers, University of Central Queensland Press, 2004. Pp. 73-82.
“White Like Me,” Texas Monthly, August 2004, pp. 78, 80-81.
“The Texas Literary Hall of Fame,” Texas Books in Review, XXIV, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 12-15.
“Lit, Crit, ‘N Grits: Interview with Don Graham,” James McWilliams, Texas Observer, April 9, 2004, pp. 6-8.
“Past the Hat: Interview with Don Graham,” Dallas Morning News, March 14, 2004, pp. G1, G4.
“Expatriate Act,” Texas Monthly, May, 2004, pp. 104, 108, 110.
“Nation State,” Texas Monthly, March, 2004, pp. 100, 102-103.
“Alamo Heights” (cover story), Texas Monthly, December 2003, pp. 132. 144, 214, 216, 218, 220, 234.
“The Critic” [interview], Texas Monthly, on-line, December, 2003.
“Tall in the Saddle,” San Antonio Express-News, November 30, 2003, p. H1.
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“King of Texas: An Interview with Don Graham,” Austin Chronicle, November 7, 2003, p. 38.
“Not-So-Great Plains,” Texas Monthly, October 2003, pp. 74, 76, 78, 80. [Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, v. 250,, 2008]
“Court Corrals a King Ranch Family Feud,” San Antonio Express-News, May 4, 2003, pp. H1, H6.
“Not Moving On,” Texas Monthly, May, 2003, pp. 84, 86, 103.
“Kings of Texas: A Conversation with Don Graham” by Dick Holland, Texas Books in Review, XXIII, No. 1 (Spring 2003), 12-15.
Profile of Don Graham: “The Landscape, the Accents, and the Sky,” by Peter Partheymuller, The Alcalde, May/June 2003, pp. 44-47.
“Ranch Undressing,”
“Now That’s Comedy” (Texas’ Funniest Movies), Texas Monthly, January 22, 2002 (on-line).
“Master Class,” Texas Monthly, January, 2003, pp. 123-125.
“King Ranch: The Secret History”(cover story), Texas Monthly, December, 2002, pp. 116-121, 198, 200-201.
“Dallas: Oil’s Final Triumph in Texas Mythology,” The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, 37/2 (November, 2001), 59-66.
“Giant,” Texas Monthly, May, 2002, pp. 128-130.
“Mission: Impossible,” Texas Monthly, February, 2002, pp. 83-85.
“Catcher in the Raw,” Texas Monthly, December 2001, pp. 116, 118, 120.
“The Write Brothers,” Texas Monthly, August, 2001, pp. 132, 171-172.
“Hot Box: Larry McMurtry’s Paradise,” Texas Monthly, June, 2001, p. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 10
“Katherine Anne Porter’s Journey from Texas to the World,” in From Texas to the World and Back, eds. Mark Busby & Dick Heaberlin (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2001), pp. 1-19.
“Writers Bloc: Fifty Great Literary Moments in Texas,” Texas Monthly, May, 2001, pp. 132-137.
“Belles Lettres Blues,” Texas Observer, May 11, 2001, pp. 24-25.
“Knightmare,” Texas Monthly, April, 2001, pp. 113-114, 116.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him,” Texas Monthly, March, 2001, p. 26.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: The Perfect Sonya,” Texas Monthly, February, 2001, p. 22.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: A Prince of a Fellow,” Texas Monthly, January, 2001, p. 24.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Confessions of a Washed-Up Sportswriter,” Texas Monthly, December, 2000, p. 28.
“Michael Wilding’s ‘Lost Illusions’: the Balzacian Underpinnings of Wildest Dreams,” in Australian Writing and the City: Refereed Proceedings of the 1999 Conference. Eds. Fran de Groen and Ken Stewart. Sydney: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2000.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Strange Peaches,” Texas Monthly, November, 2000, p. 28.
“The Pits,” Texas Monthly, October, 2000, pp. 70, 72, 74.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Alpaca,” Texas Monthly, October, 2000, p. 26.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Blood Meridian,” Texas Monthly, September, 2000, p. 28.
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“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue,” Texas Monthly, August, 2000, p. 26.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: My First Thirty Years,” Texas Monthly, July, 2000, p. 22.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: The Time It Never Rained,” Texas Monthly, June, 2000, p.22.
“Ghosts and Empty Sockets” [short story], Southwestern American Literature, 25/2 (Spring 2000), 51-57.
“On Creativity,” Anthology (Tarleton State University), 6 (Spring 2000), p. ix.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Texas Music Movies,” Texas Monthly, May, 2000, p. 24.
“Texas Classics: J. Frank Dobie,” Texas Bound, Spring/Summer 2000, p. 32.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: The Log of a Cowboy,” Texas Monthly, April, 2000, p. 24.
“Wayne’s World,” Texas Monthly, March, 2000, pp. 108-113, 144-145.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Viva Max!” Texas Monthly, March, 2000, p. 28.
“Deep in the Heart of Texas,” American Movie Classics, February, 2000, pp. 4-6.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Goodbye to a River,” Texas Monthly, February, 2000, p. 26.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: George Washington Gomez,” Texas Monthly, January, 2000, p. 26.
“Oil Field Girls,” Texas Short Stories 2. Ed. Billy Bob Hill & Laurie Champion. Dallas: Browder Springs Books, 2000. Pp. 837-839. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 12
“Lone Star Life on Screen: Texas in the Movies,” in The Texas Experience: Arrivals and Departures in Literature. Upper Saddle River, N.J., Prentice Hall, 2000. Pp. 217-221.
“ASAL Considers the City in Sydney,” AAALS Newsletter, November, 1999, p. 11.
“Teaching Texas Fiction,” English in Texas, 29.2 (Fall/Winter 1999), 21-23.
“Movie of the Century: Giant,” Texas Monthly, December 1999, pp. 144, 179.
“Actor of the Century: Sissy Spacek,” Texas Monthly, December 1999, p. 144.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: North Dallas Forty,” Texas Monthly, December 1999, p. 28.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Interwoven,” Texas Monthly, November, 1999, p. 24.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Some Part of Myself,” Texas Monthly, October, 1999, p. 24.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: North Towards Home,” Texas Monthly, September, 1999, p. 30.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” Texas Monthly, August, 1999, p. 28.
“Perspectives on McMurtryville: A Memoir by Archer City’s Flaubert,” Texas Observer, 91.13 (July 23, 1999), pp. 5-7.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: The Gay Place,” Texas Monthly, July, 1999, p. 26.
“Don Graham’s Texas Classics: Horseman, Pass By,” Texas Monthly, June, 1999, p. 24.
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“Cotton Tale,” Texas Monthly, May, 1999, pp. 108, 110,114, 116.
“Larry McMurtry’s Texas-sized Career,” The Texas Writer, 1, No. 1 May 1999), 3-6.
“Texas Literary Traditions: The Voices of Texas,” Prentice Hall Literature/Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: Gold Level. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: 2000. Pp. Tx2-Tx5.
“Texas Literary Traditions: The Uniqueness of Texas.” Prentice Hall Literature/Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: Platinum Level. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: 2000. Pp. Tx2-Tx5.
“Texas Connection: The Cowboy: The Last Cavalier,” Prentice Hall Literature/Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The British Tradition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000. p. A6.
“Texas Connection: Shakespeare in Texas,” Prentice Hall Literature/Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The British Tradition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000. P. A9.
“Texas Connection: Alexander Pope and Statesmen in Early Texas,” Prentice Hall Literature/Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The British Tradition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000. P. A16.
“Texas Connection: A British Modernist in Texas,” Prentice Hall Literature/Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The British Tradition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000. P. A40.
“Lone Star Literature,” in Celebrating the Literary Heritage of Texas. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, N.J. 1999. Pp. 5-11.
“Lone Star Life on Screen: Texas in the Movies,” in Celebrating the Literary Heritage of Texas. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River, N.J. 1999. Pp. 82-87.
“The Past is Teary: Spielberg and Malick Direct World War II: The Film,” Texas Observer, 9.12 (February 5, 1999), 25-27, 31.
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“Proust in Texas: Larry McMurtry’s Rebel Without a Car,” Texas Observer, 91.11 (January 22, 1999), 32-33.
“Picture Perfect: The Making of The Last Picture Show” [cover story] Texas Monthly, February, 1999, pp. 72-80, 106-111.
“Katherine Anne Porter’s Journey from Texas to the World,” Southwest Review, 84/1 (1998), 140-153.
“The Comic Texan in Film: A Regional Stereotype in the National Imagination” in New Directions in American Humor. Ed. David E. E. Sloane. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. 51-58.
“Bestiality Studies,” The Texas Review, XIX, 1/2 (Spring/Summer 1998), 29-34.
“John Wayne’s Body” [review-essay of Gary Wills’s John Wayne’s America], Salt Journal, August, 1998, pp. 28-31.
“Outlaw Heart: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy,” Texas Observer, 90/14 (July 31, 1998), 5-7.
“Schmaltz Across Texas: On the Lonesome Trail with the New Western Movies,” Texas Observer, 90/11 (June 5, 1998), 20-23.
“Poolside with Don Graham,” Texas Observer, 90/9 (May 8, 1998), pp. 29- 31.
“Unreality Bites,” Texas Monthly (May, 1998), pp. 123, 168.
“God’s Plenty” (review-essay), The Salt Journal, 1, No. 2 (February/March 1998), pp. 16-19.
“Free Willie’s Willie: Sleuthing with the Kinkster on the Celebrity Blower,” Texas Observer (November 7, 1997), pp. 26-27.
“Last of the Southern Belle-Lettrists,” Texas Observer (September 12, 1997), pp. 30-31.
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“Katherine the Great,” Texas Monthly, 25 (May, 1997), pp. 76, 81-82, 84- 86.
“What the World Wants to Know,” El Paso Herald-Post, November13, 1996, p. D-5.
“The Two John Graves: Reconsidering a Writer and a Texan,” Texas Observer, November 8, 1996, pp. 21-25.
“Literature.” In The New Handbook of Texas, Vol. 4 (Austin: The Texas State Historical Association, 1996), pp. 218-226.
“Lucas, Texas.” In The New Handbook of Texas, Vol. 4 (Austin: The Texas State Historical Association, 1996), p. 327.
“John Graves, Goodbye to a River, and Texas Letters,” Texas Studies, vol. 2 (1995), 205-213.
“Pen Pals,” Texas Monthly, 24 (March, 1996), pp. 100-193, 130-132.
“Canon Fever,” Texas Monthly, 24 (March, 1996), pp. 104-105. Also on WWW Ranch (http: //www.texasmonthly.com)
“Nixon Agonistes: In Larry King’s New Play, His Satanic Majesty Steals the Show,” Texas Observer, November 10, 1995, pp. 16-17.
“Anything for Larry,” Texas Observer, September 15, 1995, pp. 12-13.
“Giant Country” [Fiction] (Co-Author: Betsy Berry), New Texas 95: Poetry & Fiction. Eds. Katherine S. McGuire and James Ward Lee. Denton: Center for Texas Studies, 1995. Pp. 101-112.
“From Giant to J. R. Ewing,” Big Bend Quarterly, VII, No. 4 (Summer 1995), 8, 10,12-15.
“The Texas Military Experience in Films.” In The Texas Military Experience: From the Texas Revolution through World War II, ed. Joseph G. Dawson (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995). Pp. 155-166.
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“American Narratives,” Texas Observer, May 19, 1995, pp. 22-24.
“The Audie Murphy Story,” Discovery, 14, No. 1 (1995), 36-39.
“Bill Brammer’s The Gay Place: A Reexamination,” Southwestern American Literature, 20, No. 1 (Fall 1994), 7-27.
“Land Without Myth; or,Texas and the Mystique of Nostalgia.” In Open Spaces, City Places: Contemporary Writers on the Changing Southwest, ed. Judy Nolte Temple (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994), pp. 88-94.
“George Sessions Perry: Cotton and Classicism,” Texas Studies, I (1994), 20-31.
“Time-Traveling Through Texas,” Texas Books in Review, XIV, No. 3 (Fall 1994), p. 5.
“In the Classroom with Martin Shockley.” In Last Roundup: Selected Published and Unpublished Works of Martin Staples Shockley (Denton: A Center for Texas Studies Book, 1994), pp. xv-xix.
“The Hero in Hollywood,” Quarterly Journal of Military History, 5/3 (Spring 1993), 108-109.
“Take My Sequel from the Wall: McMurtry Revisits McMurtry,” Austin Chronicle, August 13, 1993, pp. 20, 22.
“Way Out West,” Entertainment Weekly, July 23, 1993, pp. 54-55.
“Koka Kola Kulture: Reflections Upon Things American Down Under,” Southwest Review, 78, No. 2 (Spring 1993), 231-244.
“The Western: The Big Picture,” Brochure Copy, The American West Lecture Series, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Spring 1993.
“Moo-vie Cows: The Trail to Hollywood,” Southwestern American Literature, 18, No. 1 (Fall 1992), 1-11.
“Texas Videos,” Texas Monthly, 19 (July 1991), 94-101.
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“Audie Murphy in Action.” In 1941: Texas Goes to War. Ed. James Ward Lee. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991. P. 69.
“A Southern Writer in Texas: Porter and the Texas Literary Tradition.” In Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship Eds. Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. Pp. 58-71.
“Doing England,” Southwest Review, 74, No. 3 (Summer 1989), 340-356.
"Filming McMurtry: The Regionalist Imperative." In Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook, ed. Clay Reynolds (Dallas: SMU Press, 1989), pp. 343-355.
"Mark Twain and the Vernacular Tradition in Texas: The Example of Bill Brett," Southwestern American Literature, 15, No. 1 (Fall, 1989), 6-13.
"Fallen Hero," Los Angeles Magazine, (August 1989), 84-94.
"Kid With a Gun," Texas Monthly (June 1989), 106-108, 132, 149-151.
"Blood on the Saddle," The World & I (January 1989), 326-332.
"J. Frank Dobie: A Reappraisal," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCII, no. 1 (July 1988), 1-15.
"Frank Norris." In The Literary History of the American West, ed. Thomas J. Lyon, et al (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1987), pp. 370-80.
"Western Movies Since 1960." In LHAW, pp. 1255-62.
"Audie Murphy: Kid With A Gun." In Shooting Stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film, ed. Archie P. McDonald (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), pp. 26-146.
"Location, Location, Location," Southwest Airlines Spirit (May, 1987), 28- 33, 71-72.
"The Displacement of East Texas in Movies About Texas," East Texas Historical Journal, XXV, 1 (1987), 18-22. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 18
"A Short History of Texas in the Movies: An Overview," Literature/Film Quarterly, 14 (1986), 71-81.
"Lonesome Dove: Butch and Sundance Go On A Cattle Drive," Southwestern American Literature, 12 (Fall 1986), 7-12. [Rpt., Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook, ed. Clay Reynolds (SMU Press, 1989), pp. 311-314.]
"Regionalism on the Ramparts: The Texas Literary Tradition," USA Today (magazine), July 1986, 74-76.
"Remembering the Alamo: The Story of the Texas Revolution in Popular Culture," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXXXIX (July 1985), 35-67.
"J. Frank Dobie," Texas Almanac 1986-87 (Dallas: A. H. Belo Corp., 1985), pp. 141-142.
"The Big Show," Southwest Media Review, III (Spring, 1985), 27-29.
"Palefaces vs. Redskins: A Literary Skirmish," Texas Humanist, November- December, 1984, pp. 10-11. [Rpt. in Range Wars, ed. Craig Clifford and Tom Pilkington (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989), pp. 117-121.]
"Regional Filmmaking, Texas and the Hollywood Tradition," Southwest Review, 69 (Autumn 1984), 350-364.
"'Mesquite Country': Benjamin Capps's Unpublished First Novel," Cross Timbers Review, 1 (May 1984), 32-40.
"The Texas Mystique and the Problem of Semi-serious Writing," in The Texas Literary Tradition, edited by Don Graham, James W. Lee, and Wil- liam T. Pilkington (University of Texas: College of Liberal Arts, 1983), pp. 166-176.
"Introduction: The Conference in Perspective," co-authored with James W. Lee and William T. Pilkington, in The Texas Literary Tradition, pp. 1-10. [Graham wrote pp. 1-3, 6]
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"Slouching Towards Houston: The City in Texas Fiction," co-authored with James W. Lee and William T. Pilkington, in The Texas Literary Tradition, pp. 180-194. [Graham wrote pp. 180-185]
"Selected Bibliography, 1900-1983," co-edited with James W. Lee and Wil- liam T. Pilkington, in The Texas Literary Tradition, pp. 209-235. [Graham wrote pp. 225-228, 232-235, and scattered other annotations]
"The Texas Mystique," Discovery, 8 (Winter, 1983), 5-7.
"Nowhere Else But Southfork," The Texas Humanist, 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983), 10-12.
"The Cinematic Texas Cowboy," Texas Libraries, 44 (October, 1983), 131- 136.
"Madness and Comedy: A Neglected Jack London Vein." In Critical Essays on Jack London, ed. Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin (Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1983), 223-229.
"Andy Adams." In Fifty Western Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source- book, edited by Fred Erisman and Richard W. Etulain (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982), pp. 13-20.
"Naturalism in American Fiction: A Status Report," Studies in American Fiction, 10 (Spring 1982), 1-16.
"William Eastlake's First Novel: An Account of the Making of Go In Beauty," Western American Literature, XVI (Spring 1981), 9-12.
"A Farm Boy's Progress: The Autobiographies of William A. Owens," in William A. Owens: A Symposium (Denton: Trilobite Press, 1981), pp. 9- 12.
"The Women of High Noon: A Revisionist View," Rocky Mountain Review, 34 (Fall 1980), 243-251.
"Old and New Cowboy Classics," Southwest Review, 65 (Summer 1980), 293-303.
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"Tragedy and Western American Literature: The Example of Michael Straight," Denver Quarterly, 12 (Winter 1978), 59-66. [Rpt. in Critical Essays on the Western American Novel, edited by William T. Pilkington (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980), pp. 187-195.
"Frank Norris and Les Jeunes: Architectural Criticism and Aesthetic Val- ues," American Literary Realism, 11 (Autumn 1978), 235-242.
"Jack London's Tale Told by a High-Grade Feeb," Studies in Short Fiction," 15 (Fall 1978), 429-433.
"Psychological Veracity in 'The Lost Phoebe': Dreiser's Revisions," Studies in American Fiction, 6 (Spring 1978), 100-105.
"The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid and the Cinematic Legend of Jesse James," Journal of Popular Film, 6 (1977), 77-85. [Rpt. in Western Movies, edited by William T. Pilkington and Don Graham (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979), pp. 131-137.
"Dreiser's Ant Tragedy: The Revision of 'The Shining Slave Makers,'" Studies in Short Fiction, 14 (Winter 1977), 41-48.
"Dreiser's use of the 'English Jefferies' in Jennie Gerhardt," Dreiser Newsletter, 8 (Spring 1977), 6-8.
"The Common Ground of Goodbye, Columbus and The Great Gatsby," Forum, 13 (Winter 1976), 68-71.
"A Degenerate Methodist: A New Review of The Damnation of Theron Ware," American Literary Realism, 9 (Summer 1976), 280-284.
"Frank Norris, Actor," Book of California Quarterly News-Letter, 41 (Spring 1976), 38-40.
"Dreiser and Thoreau: An Early Influence," Dreiser Newsletter, 7 (Spring 1976), 1-4.
"Naturalism and the Revolutionary Imperative: Sol Yurick's The Warriors," Critique, 18 (1976), 119-128.
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" 'The Cruise of the Idelwild': Dreiser's Revisions of a 'Rather Light' Story," American Literary Realism, 8 (Winter 1975), 1-11.
"Art in McTeague," Studies in American Fiction, 3 (Autumn 1975), 143- 155. [Reprinted as “Art and Humanity in McTeague, in McTeague: A Norton Critican Edition, 2nd ed. Ed. by Donald Pizer. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. Pp. 312-328]; Rpt. by Cengage Learning in collection Twentieth Century Literature Criticism (TCLC2111), 2009.
"David Graham Phillips," American Literary Realism, 8 (Autumn 1975), 321-322.
"'Negative Glamour': The Pimp Hero in the Fiction of Iceberg Slim" Obsidian, 1 (Summer 1975), 5-17.
"Aesthetic Experience in Realism," American Literary Realism, 8 (Summer 1975), 289-290.
[with Barbara Shaw] "Faulkner's Small Debt to Dos Passos: A Source for the Percy Grimm Episode," Mississippi Quarterly, 277 (Summer 1974), 327- 331.
"Frank Norris's Afternoon of a Faun," Papers on Language and Literature, 10 (Summer 1974), 307-312.
"Yone Noguchi's 'Poe Mania,'" Markham Review, 4 (May 1974), 58-60.
"Dreiser's Maggie," American Literary Realism, 7 (Spring 1974), 169-170.
"Lawd Today and the Example of 'The Waste Land,'" CLA Journal, 17 (March 1974), 327-332.
"A Note on Howells, Williams, and the Matter of Sam Patch," Notes on Contemporary Literature, 4 (March 1974), 10-13.
"Is Dallas Burning? Notes on Recent Texas Fiction," Southwestern American Literature, 4 (1974), 68-73.
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"Studio Art in The Octopus," American Literature, 64 (January 1973), 657- 666.
"A Ford Madox Ford Item," Notes & Queries, New Series, 19, 11 (November 1972), 423.
"Fitzgerald's Valley of Ashes and Frank Norris's 'Sordid and Grimy Wilderness,'" Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 1972, eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli and C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr., pp. 303-306.
"Of Edsels and Marauders." In Edsels and Marauders, eds. Fred Tarpley and Ann Moseley. Commerce: Name Institute Press, 1971. pp. 1-5.
“Utopian Turtletops and Brunette Angels: Some Remarks on Poetry and Advertising," CCTE Proceedings, 35 (Sept. 1970), 32-36.
"From Chinese to English: Ezra Pound's 'Separation on the River Kiang,'" Literature East and West, 8 (June 1969), 182-195.
Journalism:
“Festival Vital to State Heritage,” Denton Record-Chronicle, September 25, 1995, p. 8.
"Someone Ought to Name a Street for Audie Murphy," International Herald- Tribune, May 8, 1990.
"Frustrated Author Claims Dallas a Desert for Books," Texas Books in Review, (Winter, 1989) p. 30.
"The Best Films Audie Murphy Never Made," Texas Books in Review, VII, No. 2 (December 1987), 16.
"Alamo Film Notes," Witte Museum (San Antonio), Summer, 1986. Pp. 1- 6.
"Hollywood Looks at Texas," Amon Carter Museum (Forth Worth), Summer, 1986. Pp. 1-3.
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"Dallas's Really Big Show in 1936," D (June 1986), 16.
"When Myths Collide," Texas Monthly, 14 (January 1986), 42,98. [Rpt. in Texas, Our Texas (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1986), pp. 14, 40.]
"What Have they Done to my Town?" Southwest Airlines Spirit, August, 1985, 34, 36.
"Suburban Upbringing Can Color Student's View of the World," Dallas Times Herald, June 9, 1985, p. 42-A.
"Mexican Perceptions of Westerns Surprise Professor," Dallas Times Herald, July 1 1984, p. A1.
"A Proper Ceremony," Texas Humanist, (May-June 1984), 32-33.
"Film Texans: From Heroes to Fanatics," Dallas Times Herald, November 20, 1983, p. 3-A.
"Riding the Range in Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Gazette, 82 (November, 1983), 32-35.
"How a Texas Male Became an English Major," This Is TCU, 25 (September, 1983), 3-5.
"Backyard Baseball with Mantle, Feller and the Babe," Dallas Times Herald, April 3, 1983, p. 38A.
"On The Trail Again," Third Coast, 1 (April 1982), 44-47.
"Austin in the Movies," Austin, 24 (January 1982), 11-13.
"Flick Flops," D Magazine, 8 (November 1981), 43-49.
Reviews:
“One Day in Dallas” (Review of Adam Braver’s November 22, 1963; Tin House Books, 2008), Texas Observer, March 6, 2009, 26-27.
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Wild Amazement by Michael Wilding. Rockhampton, Queensland: Central Queensland UP, 2006’ Antipodes, 20/2 (December 2006), 210-211.
Conversations with Texas Writers, edited by Frances Leonard and Ramona Cearley. University of Texas Press, 2005; Great Plains Quarterly, 26/1 (Winter 2006), pp. 45-46.
“Rio Grande: The Storied River” (March 1-July 31, 2005), The Journal of American History, December 2005, pp. 924-925.
Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Supprssion Turned Mexicans into Texans by Benjamin Heber Johnson. Yale University Press, 2003; Texas Books in Review, XXIII, Nos. 3 &4 (Fall/Winter 2003- 04), pp. 2, 4.
Academia Nuts by Michael Wilding. Sydney: Wild & Woolley, 2002; JAS Review of Books, issue 20, Nobember 2003 (http://www.api- network.com/egi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=090331944&issue=)
“Horses, Homicides, and Squabbling Scholars,” Review of Frighten the Horses: A Randy Coulter Mystery by Kurth Sprague; Writers Club Press, 2003; in Texas Books in Review, XXIII, No. 2 (Summer 2003), p. 14.
“To the Great War and Back,” Texas Books in Review, Fall/Winter 2000, 20, 3&4, pp. 11, 17.
Somewhere New: New & Selected Stories by Michael Wilding. Rockhampton, Queensland: Central Queensland University Press, 1996; Studies in Short Fiction 34/4 (Fall 1997), 528-530.
Wildest Dreams: A Selective Memoir by Michael Wilding. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1998; Antipodes, 13.1 (June 1999), pp. 45- 6.
Hadrian’s Walls: A Novel by Robert Draper. New York: Knopf, 1999; Austin Chronicle, May 14, 1999, p. 49.
Studies in Classic Australian Fiction by Michael Wilding. Sydney and Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 1997. Sydney Studies in Society and Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 25
Culture 16; Journal of English and Germanic Philogogy (April, 1999), 273- 275.
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror by James Hynes; Texas Books in Review, XVIII, 2 (Summer 1998), 16.
Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow? by Ceil Cleveland. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1997; Entertainment Weekly, December 12, 1997, p. 80.
American Pastoral by Philip Roth. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Entertainment Weekly, May 16, 1997, p. 108.
Patches of Fire by Albert French. New York: Anchor Books, 1997. Dallas Morning News, March 16, 1997, 9J.
Peckinpah: The Western Films—A Reconsideration by Paul Seydor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press; Entertainment Weekly, March 14, 1997, p. 74.
Over There by Kyle Jarrard. Dallas: Baskerville Publishers, 1997; Dallas Morning News, February 23, 1997, 9J.
Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder by Kevin Lally. New York: Holt, 1996; Entertainment Weekly, May 24, 1996, p. 88.
Playing the Bones by Louise Redd. New York: Little, Brown, 1996; Entertainment Weekly, May 17, 1996, p. 57.
The Lives and Times of Bonnie & Clyde by E. R. Milner. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996; San Antonio Express-News, May 5, 1996, p. L4.
Larry McMurtry and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship by Mark Busby. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995; and Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times by Janice P. Stout. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995; Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCIX, No. 4 (April, 1996), 589-590.
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Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults by John Neal Phillips. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press; The Lives and Times of Bonnie & Clyde by E. R. Milner. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press; Depression Desperado: The Chronicle of Raymond Hamilton by Sid Underwood. Austin: Eakin Press; Dallas Morning News, April 21, 1996, pp. 8-9J.
Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry. New York: Random House, 1996; Entertainment Weekly, January 7, 1996, pp. 62-63.
The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur by John Gregory Brown. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996; Entertainment Weekly, April 22, 1996, p. 59.
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker. Dutton, 1995; Dallas Morning News, January 14, 1996, pp. 8-9J.
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze by Robert James Waller. New York: Time Warner, 1995; Dallas Morning News, November 24, 1995, p. 4C.
“Dead Man’s Curve: Gus and Call Pay a Revisionist Visit to Texas History,” The Texas Observer, September 29, 1995, pp. 17-18.
Dead Man’s Walk by Larry McMurtry. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995; Entertainment Weekly, September 8, 1995, p. 76.
The Red Scream, by Mary Willis Walker. New York: Doubleday, 1994; Southwest American Literature, 20, No. 1 (Fall 1994), 111-112.
Alamo Movies, by Frank Thompson. Plano: Woodware Publishing, Inc., 1991; Southwestern Historical Quarterly, October, 1994, pp. 354-55.
Pretty Boy Floyd, by Larry McMurtry and Diana Osanna. Simon & Schuster, 1994; Dallas Morning News, September 11, 1994, pp. 8-9J.
The Bride Wore Crimson and Other Stories, by Bryan Woolley. Texas Western Press, 1993; Dallas Morning News, August 8, 1993, J10.
“Trail to Texas” [Streets of Laredo, by Larry McMurtry.] Simon & Schuster, 1993; Entertainment Weekly, July 23, 1993, p. 55. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 27
Texas, My Texas, by James Ward Lee. University of North Texas Press, 1993; Dallas Morning News, July 4, 1993, p. J10.
Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience, by Michael Wilding. W. W. Norton, 1991; Antipodes, 6/1 (June 1993), 89.
Hug Dancing, by Shelby Hearon. Knopf, 1992; Entertainment Weekly, January 27, 1992, p. 53.
The Edge of the West and Other Stories, by Bryan Woolley. Texas Western Press, 1990. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCV, No. 3 (January 1992) 436-37.
Honor at Daybreak: A Novel of One Town’s Battle for Justice, by Elmer Kelton; Doubleday, 1991; Entertainment Weekly, Febrary 22, 1991, p. 52.
Before I Forget: ‘50s Reflections Through a Jaded Eye, by George Toomer; Little, Brown, 1991; Dallas Morning News, March 5, 199l.
Hot Water, by Don Wallace; Soho, 1991; Entertainment Weekly, April 5, 1991, p. 58.
Who Do You Love, by Valerie Sayers; Doubleday, 1991; Entertainment Weekly, May 17, 1991, p. 54.
Buried Secrets: A True Story of Serial Murder, Black Magic, and Drug Running on the U.S. Border. by Edward Hume; Dallas Morning News, May 16, 199l; also in Houston Post, May 31, 1991.
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel; Arte Publico Press, 1990; Texas Books in Review, XI (Spring 1991), 13.
White Lies: Rape, Murder, and Justice Texas Style, by Nick Davies; Pantheon, 1991; Entertainment Weekly, May 17, 1991, p. 54.
Dixie Riggs, by Sarah Gilbert; Warner, 1991; Entertainment Weekly, May 17, 1991, p. 54.
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The Second Bridegroom, by Rodney Hall. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991; Entertainment Weekly, August 30, 1991, pp. 54-55.
Letters of Katherine Anne Porter, ed. Isabel Bayley. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990; Entertainment Weekly, June 1, 1990, p. 26.
Spirit of Place, by Frederick Turner. Sierra Club Books, 1990; Entertainment Weekly, March 23, 1990, p. 25.
Watching "Dallas" by Ien Ang. Texas Books in Review, (Winter 1988), 20- 21.
Willie Nelson: An Autobiography by Willie Nelson with Bud Shrake ( Simon and Schuster, 1988) Dallas Morning News, Oct. 30, 1988, pp.10c- 11c.
Classics of Texas Fiction by James W. Lee (E-Heart Press, 1987). Houston Post, July 12, 1987, p.15F.
The Idea of Florida in the American Mind, ed. Anne E. Rowe (LSU Press, 1986). American Literature, March 1987, pp. 150-51.
Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of A Texas Experience by Susan Prendergast Schoelwer with Tom W. Glaser (SMU Press, 1985). Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XC (Jan. 1987), 317-318.
Novels and Essays, Frank Norris (Library of America, 1987). Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 11, 1987, p. 7.
The Pull by Bobby Jack Nelson. Dallas Morning News, March 23, 1986, p. 10C.
The Gulf by Charlie McDade. Dallas Morning News, February 23, 1986, p. 8C.
Austin by Dave Oliphant. Dallas Times Herald, February 2, 1986, p. 10C.
Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West by Russell Martin. Southwest Review, 70 (Winter 1985), 138-140. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 29
The Reel West: Classic Stories That Inspired Classic Films, ed. by Bill Pronzuri and Martin H. Greenberg, Southwestern Historical Quarterly LXXXIX (October 1985), 230-231.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Texas Humanist 7 (July-August, 1985), 39-40.
And Brave Men, Too by Timothy Lowry. Dallas Times Herald, July 21, 1985, C-11.
Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy by Albert Race Sample. Dallas Morning News, August 6, 1984, p. 36.
Stand Proud by Elmer Kelton. Dallas Morning News, June 24, 1984, pp. 5- 6.
Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981, by Stephen Tatum. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 87 (April, 1984), 426- 427.
The Franchise by Peter Gent. Texas Observer, January 27, 1984, pp. 18-19.
Crockett: A Bio-Bibliography by Richard Boyd Hauck. Western Historical Quarterly, XV (January 1984), 74-75.
Texas: A Self-Portrait by Jon Holmes. Texas Books in Review, VI (1984), pp. 15-16.
Afoot in a Field of Men by Pat Ellis Taylor. Dallas Times Herald, November 27, 1983, p. 5-K.
Frank Norris: The Critical Reception by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., and Katherine Knight. American Literary Realism, XVI (Autumn 1983), 320- 321.
Clio's Cowboys: Studies in the Historiography of the Cattle Trade by Don D. Walker. Pacific Historical Review, LII (August 1983), 319-320.
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God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film by Wayne Michael Sarf. Choice (July/August 1983), 307.
The Valley by Rolando Hinojosa. Dallas Times Herald, July 3, 1983, p. 4N.
Nekkid Cowboy by Katie Breeze. Texas Books in Review, V (1983), 2-3.
Some Sweet Day by Bryan Woolley. The Texas Observer, 74 (May 7, 1982), 24-25.
Charles A. Siringo by Orlan Sawey. Western Humanities Review, XXXVI (Spring 1982), 94-95.
Talking With Texas Writers by Patrick Bennett. Southwestern Historical Quarterly (January 1982), 352-353.
Fred Gipson: Texas Storyteller by Mike Cox. Choice (September 1981), 187.
Luke Short by Robert Gale. Choice (July-August 1981), 150.
Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. Choice (June 1981), 207.
Tom Robbins by Mark Richard Siegel. Choice (May 1981), 229.
Southwestern American Literature: A Bibliography, ed. by John Q. Anderson, Edwin W. Gaston, Jr., and James W. Lee. Choice (December 1980), 66-67.
Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film by John J. Lenihan. Choice (November 1980), 258.
Peckinpah: The Western Film by Paul Seydor. Choice (November 1980), 258.
The Novel of The American West by John R. Milton. Choice (October 1980), 195.
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Blanco by Allen Wier. Western American Literature, XIV (Winter 1980), 329-330.
An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie by Lon Tinkle. Southern Humanities Review, XIV (Fall 1980), 370-371.
John Wayne by Allen Eyles. Choice (April 1980), 212.
Pappy: The Life of John Ford by Dan Ford. Choice (March 1980), 231.
From Hopalong to Hud: Thoughts on Western Fiction by C. L. Sonnischen. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 33 (Spring 1979), 76.
Theodore Dreiser: A Selection of Uncollected Prose edited by Donald Pizer. American Literary Realism, 9 (Autumn 1978), 324-325.
Solitudes by R. G. Vliet. Western American Literature, 12 (February 1978), 337-338.
The Killdeer Crying: Selected Poems of William Barney edited by Dave Oliphant. Western American Literature, 12 (February 1978), 325-326.
Lone Star Universe: The First Anthology of Texas Science Fiction edited by George W. Proctor and Steven Utley. Western American Literature, 12 (November 1977), 251-252.
White Logic by James McClintock. A Potpourri of Books for College Eng- lish Teachers (College English Association, Inc., 1976), 31-33.
Frank Norris: A Reference Guide by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. American Book Collector, 26 (Jan.-Feb. 1976), 6.
Theodore Dreiser by James Lundquist. Dreiser Newsletter, 6 (Spring 1975), 20-22.
James T. Farrell by Edgar M. Branch. Studies in American Fiction, 3 (Spring 1975), 112-113.
My Blood's Country: Studies in Southwestern Literature by William T. Pilkington. Southwestern American Literature, 5 (1975), 113. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 32
Bright Book of Life by Alfred Kazin. Studies in the Novel, 5 (Fall 1973), 404-405.
Frank Norris: Instinct and Art by William B. Dillingham. Studies in the Novel, 3 (Spring 1971), 122-123.
Ezra Pound's Cathay by Wai-Lim Yip. Literature East and West, 15 (March 1971), 157-158.
INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS:
“Austin in the ‘50s: The Political and Literary Landscapes of Billy Lee Brammer,” Austin Community College, Austin, Texas, April 3, 2009.
“The King Ranch Story: Fable and Fact,” Georgetown Heritage Society, Georgetown, Texas, January 15, 2009.
“State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies,” ExploreUT, March 7, 2009.
“TEX Messaging: A Cinematic History of the Lone Star State,” American Studies Association of Texas, Texas State University, San Marcos,Texas, November 14, 2008.
“A.C. Greene, Texas Culture, and Some Other Observations,” West Texas Book and Music Festival, Abilene, Texas, September 27, 2008.
“Tex Messaging: A Visual History of Lone Star Cinema,” Georgiana and Max Lale Lecture Series, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas, September 25, 2008.
“Literary Austin,” Life and Times in Texas Seminar, UT Forum, Austin, Texas, March 21, 2008.
“Lone Star Cinema: A Century of Texas in the Movies,” Texas State Historical Association, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 7, 2008.
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“The Rhetoric of Personal Address in Michael Wilding’s Short Fiction,” American Association of Australian Literature, Austin, Texas, March 1, 2008.
“Literary Austin,” Tejas Literature & Arts Festival, Rockdale, Texas, March 1, 2008.
“Reading in High School and Later,” Westlake High School National Honor Society, Austin, November 14, 2007.
“Jenna Bush: An Introduction,” Texas Book Festival, Austin, November 3, 2007.
“Rolando Hinojosa: A Tribute,” Texas Book Festival Book-Ends Awards, Austin, November3, 2007.
“Literary Austin”: A Panel Discussion, Texas Book Festival Kick-Off Event, Humanities Research Institute, University of Texas, November 1, 2007.
“Beyond Cowboys and Cadillacs: The Real Story of Texas Literature,” Phi Beta Kappa Retreat, The Crossings, Austin, Tx., October 20, 2007.
“Conversation With Max Evans,” Palo Duro Western Film Festival, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon,Texas, August 3, 2007.
“Lone Star Cinema: A Century of Texas in the Movies,” Palo Duro Western Film Festival, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, August 4, 2007.
“Texas Movies on Parade”: Slide Presentation by Don Graham and Joe Bob Briggs, Alamo Draft House, Austin, Tx., June 16, 2007.
“The Joys and Regrets of Anthology-Making,” Barnes & Noble at the Arboretum, Austin, Tx., May 8, 2007.
“A Forgotten Autobiography,” British Studies, University of Texas at Austin, December 8, 2006.
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“I Wish I Knew How To Quirt You: The Queering of Larry McMurtry,” Southwest Writers and Artists Festival, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx., October 26, 2006.
“Western Movies and the Image of the Cowboy,” Palo Duro Western Film Festival, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, May 6, 2006.
“Comanche Station: A Forgotten Classic,” Varsity Theater, Canyon, Texas, May 6, 2006.
“Red River: The Color of Red,” Varsity Theater, Canyon, Texas, May 7, 2006.
“Texas Women’s Literary Tradition: The Other Side of the Story,” AAUW, September 13, 2005. Austin, Texas.
“Australia by the Book,” Fulbright-Hays Seminar—Australia: New Country, Old History, University of Texas at Austin, June 28, 2005.
“Dobie’s Legacy,” Panel on The Texas Literary Scene in the Late Twentieth Century, Texas State Historical Association, Fort Worth, TX, March 3, 2005.
“Why and How I Write,” St. Stephens, Austin, TX., February 18, 2005.
“The Drover’s Wife: An Australian Archetype,” British Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX., February 18, 2005.
“Truth or Fiction?” Panel Discussion with Elmer Kelton, Robert Flynn, Lou Rodenberger, and Ben Rehder, West Texas Book and Author Festival, Abilene, TX, September 25, 2004.
Discussion Leader, “One Austin/One Book: All the Pretty Horses,” Pleasant Hill Library, Austin, Tx., August 25, 2004.
“The Making of Lone Star Literature”: One Arlington/One Book (Lone Star Literature), Barnes & Noble, Arlington, Tx., August 15, 2004.
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“Lone Star Literature: Commentary, etc., “ Judy and A.C. Greene Literary Festival, Salado, Tx., June 4, 2004.
“Lone Star Literature—Anthologizing the Canon,” Texas Writers’ League, Austin, Tx., May 27, 2004.
“Texas Culture,” Department of English Graduation Program, University of Texas, Austin, Tx., May 22, 2004.
“J. Frank Dobie and Texas Writing,” Barnes & Noble, Austin, Tx., May 13, 2004.
“Halls of Fame,”Texas Literary Hall of Fame Inaugural Event, Fort Worth, Tx., May 8, 2004.
“Lone Star Literature: A Reading,” Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Austin Chapter, Texas State Cemetery, May 1, 2004.
“Kings of Texas,” Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Ferdinand Lindheimer Chapter, New Braunfels, Tx., March 20, 2004.
“Lone Star Literature: A Reading,”2004 Discover Series, Butt- Holdsworth Memorial Library, Kerrville, Tx., March 11, 2004.
“The Kings of Texas,”H. R. Sanchez Sr. Distinguished Lecture Series 2003-2004, Texas A&M International University, March 9, 2004.
“Kings of Texas: The Story of a Book,” Austin Rotarians Club, Austin, Tx., March 4, 2004.
“Texas Poetry,” Poetry on the Plaza, University of Texas, Austin, Tx., March 3, 2004.
“Lone Star Literature: The Making of an Anthology,” Book People, Austin, Tx, January 27, 2004.
“King Ranch: Dynasty, Desire, and History,” Lamp Association, University of Texas, Austin, TX, January 22, 2004.
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“King Ranch and Lone Star Literature: How they Came to Be,” Gonzales Courthouse Fair, Gonzales, Texas, December 6, 2003.
“Lone Star Literature: A Reading,” Brownsville Historical Association, Brownsville, Texas, November 16, 2003.
“Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch,” Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, November 8, 2003.
“Lone Star Literature: Steve Harrigan, Elmer Kelton, Shelby Hearon, and Don Graham,” Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, November 8, 2003.
“King Ranch: Land, Desire, and History,” Fourteenth Texas History Forum, The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo, San Antonio, Tx., October 17, 2003.
“King Ranch: A Story of Land and Law,” Texas Originals: Real and Imagined, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Tx., October 16, 2003.
“John Graves: A Texas Writer’s Perspective” (Moderator), Western History Association, Fort Worth, Tx., October 11, 2003.
“Texas in the Movies,” Tarrant County Junior College, Fort Worth, Tx., October 8, 2003.
“The Evolution of the American West: Myth and Reality,” Keynote Address, Waxahachie Chautauqua, Waxahachie, Tx., September 27, 2003.
“King Ranch: The Real Story,” Mid-South Independent Book-Sellers’ Association, Austin, Tx., September 6, 2003.
“Lone Star Literature,” Barnes & Noble, Corpus Christi, TX, May 7, 2003.
“Talks on Kings of Texas,” Bookstores in Houston, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Plano, and El Paso, Texas, Spring, 2003.
“Meet the Author,” Cross Plains, Texas, July 15, 2003.
“On Writing Feature Articles,” 10th Annual Agents Conference, Writers’ League of Texas, Austin, TX, July 12, 2003. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 37
“King Ranch in South Texas,” Brownsville Historical Association, Brownsville, Tx, April 13, 2003.
“King Ranch and South Texas History,” Webb County Heritage Foundation, Laredo, Texas, May 13, 2003.
“King Ranch in History,” Wayside Club, University of Texas, March 26, 2003.
“One Book, One Lampasas: Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained,” Lampasas Public Library, March 5, 2003.
“George Sessions Perry’s Rockdale,” Rockdale Public Library, Rockdale, Tx., April 28, 2003.
“King Ranch and Texas History,” Wranglers’ Club, San Antonio, Tx., May 15, 2003.
“Developing Book Projects,” Highland Park Literary Workshops, Dallas, Texas, February 27, 2003.
“Deep Thinkers of Philosopher’s Rock at the Springs,” Sheffeld Education Center at Barton Springs Bath House in Zilker Park, Austin, TX, June 13, 2003.
“King Ranch: The Book,” Liberal Arts Foundation, UT-Austin, April 4, 2003.
“King Ranch,” Austin Womens Book Club, Austin, Tx., July 1, 2003.
“King Ranch,” Bluffs Book Club, Austin, Tx., June 13, 2003.
“King Ranch,” Southwestern Writers Collection, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Tx., March 27, 2003.
“King Ranch in Texas History and Lore,” New Texas Forum Series, Connexus, UT-Austin, October 17, 2002.
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White House Conference on Writers of the West: Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Washington, D.C., September 17, 2003.
“Kings of Texas: A Reading,” Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association, Austin, Tx, September 6, 2003.
“The Evolution of the American West: Myth and Reality,”Waxahachie Chautauqua, Waxahachie, Tx., Setember 27, 2003
“John Graves: A Texas Writer’s Perspective,” Western History Association, Fort Worth, Tx., October 11, 2003.
“Texas in the Movies,” Tarrant County Junior College, Fort Worth, Tx., October 8, 2003.
“King Ranch: Land, Desire, History,” Fourteenth Texas History Forum, The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo, San Antonio, Tx., October 17, 2003.
“King Ranch: A Story of Land and Law,” Witte Museum, San Antonio, Tx., October 16, 2003.
“Lone Star Literature: A Reading,” Brownsville Historcal Association, Brownsville, Tx., November 16, 2003.
“Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch,” Texas Book Festival, Austin, Tx., November 8, 2003.
“Lone Star Literature: Steve Harrigan, Elmer Kelton, Shelby Hearon, and Don Graham,” Texas Book Festival, Austin, Tx., November 8, 2003.
“King Ranch and Lone Star Literature: How They Came to Be,” Fourth Annual Courthouse Book Fair, Gonzalez, Tx., December 6, 2003.
“King Ranch: Dynasty, Desire, and History,” The Lamp Association, University of Texas, Austin, Tx., January 22, 2004.
“Praying on the Prairie: Texas Writers on Religion,” Quest, UT-Austin, Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 39
November 5, 2002.
“Larry McMurtry’s Paradise,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, March 21, 2002.
“Prayer on the Prairie: The Role of Religion in Classic Texas Writers,” Art & Soul: Religion and Literature in the American Southwest” (keynote address), Baylor Unversity, Waco, March 14, 2001.
“Larry McMurtry and Me,” Arts and Letters Live, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, March 11, 2002.
“Reflections on LBJ and The Gay Place,” Women’s Reading Club, Austin, March 5, 2002.
“Writing and Editing in the Real World: Examples from Texas Monthly,” Highland Park Literary Festival, Dallas, Texas, February 28, 2002.
“Texas Movie Mythology,” New Texas Forum Series, Connexus, UT- Austin, October 12, 2001.
“Kyle and KAP: The Local Conditions of Katherine Anne Porter’s Art,” Katherine Anne Porter Birthday Celebration, Kyle, Texas, May 15, 2001.
“‘The Drover’s Wife’: My Australia Obsession,” Arts and Letters Live, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. March 31, 2001.
Panel on Putting the Personality into a Profile, Conference on Exploring the Creative in Nonfiction, Texas Writers’ League, Austin, Texas, March 3, 2001.
Panel on Writing and Revising With and Without an Editor, Conference on Exploring the Creative in Nonfiction, Texas Writers’ League, Austin, Texas, March 3, 2001.
“Dallas: Oil’s Final Triumph in Texas Mythology,” Stars Fell on Texas: The Texas Oil Story as Told by Hollywood, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas February 28, 2001.
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“Texas Films: The Awful Truth,” New Braunfels Public Library, New Braunfels, Texas, February 16, 2001.
“Reading and the Writing Life,” Keynote Address, Highland Park High School, Dallas, Texas, February 1, 2001.
Four Workshops: “Writing and Editing for Texas Monthly,” Highland Park Literary Festival, Dallas, Texas, February 1, 2001.
“Texas Movies: Literature and Film in the Lone Star State,” Highland Park Literary Festival, SMU, Dallas, Texas, January 31, 2001.
“Texas in the Movies: A Slide Lecture,” Dallas Womens Club, Dallas, Texas, January 31, 2001.
“New Representations of the Southwest in Film: Lone Star to Smoke Signals,” Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute (NEH), San Marcos, Texas, June 28, 2000.
“Cowboys, Cadillacs, and Texas Film Mythology,” Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute (NEH), San Marcos, Texas, June 27, 2000.
“A History of Westerns: From The Great Train Robbery to The Quick and the Dead,” Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute (NEH), San Marcos, Texas, June 26, 2000.
“A Reading: ‘Oil Field Girls,’” Texas Writers Month Event, Barnes & Noble, Austin, Texas, May 30, 2000.
“‘The Committee’: A Reading with Commentary,” Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, April 26, 2000.
“Where Texas Literature Was Invented—and When,” Mosaic of Texas Culture Conference 2000, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, April 7, 2000.
“Texas Film: The Awful Truth” (with John Bloom/Joe Bob Briggs), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, March 31, 2000.
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“Davy Crockett and the De La Pena Diary: Preview and Discussion of a Documentary Film by Brian Huberman,” Panel Discussion, Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas, March 3, 2000.
“Lone Star Lit: A Reading with Commentary,” Angelo State University Fourth Annual Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton,” San Angelo, Texas, February 25, 2000.
“Literature, Culture, and History of the Southwest,” Panel Discussion, Angelo State University Fourth Annual Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, San Angelo, Texas, February 24, 2000.
“‘French Resistance’: A Reading” (with Betsy Berry), Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival, Belton, Texas, January 7, 2000.
“The Once and Future State: A Writer’s Texas,” Panel Discussion, The Philosophical Society of Texas, Austin, Texas, December 4, 1999.
“Cormac McCarthy’s Appropriation of Texas Literary Space in All the Pretty Horses,” Cormac McCarthy Society, San Antonio, Texas, November 12, 1999.
“Writing About Texas: Giant Country,” Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, November 11, 1999.
“Workshop on Teaching Giant in High School Curriculum,” Lewisville, Texas, September 21, 1999.
“Workshop on Teaching Giant in High School Curriculum,” Arlington, Texas, September 21, 1999.
“Workshop on Teaching Giant in High School Curriculum,” Garland, Texas, September 8, 1999.
“‘Anything for Larry’ and ‘Giant Country’: A Reading,” Boerne Public Library Foundation, Boerne, Texas, September 18, 1999.
“Giant: Mythology and Multiculturalism in a Texas Classic,” Tejas Club (University of Texas), October 7, 1999.
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“Michael Wilding’s ‘Lost Illusions’: The Balzacian Underpinnings of Wildest Dreams, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Roselle (Sydney), Australia, July 4, 1999.
“Australian Film: An American Perspective,” Panel, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Roselle (Sydney), Australia, July 5, 1999.
“Lone Star Lit: Regional Literatuare in the High School Classroom,” Prentice-Hall Symposium, Arlington, Texas, April 28, 1999.
“Cormac McCarthy’s Outlaw Heart: The Border Trilogy,” Dallas Museum of Art, April 16,1999, Dallas, Texas.
“Texas: A Sense of Place,” Explorers, University Methodist Church, Austin, Texas, March 28, 1999.
“Was Texas Ever a Garden?” Response to “Ecology and Belonging,” American Studies Association of North America, Conference on Modes of Belonging in Australia and North America, Austin, Texas, February 27, 1999.
“A Short Visual History of Texas in the Movies,” Tuesday Club, Austin, Texas, February 15, 1999.
“Cowboys & Cadillacs: Texas in the Movies,” Dallas Historical Society, Dallas, Texas, February 7, 1999.
“Lone Star Literature: The Value of Teaching Texas Writing,” Keynote Address, Texas State Teachers of English, Fort Worth, Texas, February 4, 1999.
“Race, Gender, & History in Giant Country,” Making an American Quilt: Race and Community in Our Time,” Galveston College, Galveston, Texas, November 17, 1998.
“That’s My Opinion & You’re Welcome to It,” Panel,Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, November 14, 1998.
“Reflections on Writing,” Featured Speaker, Book and Author Dinner, Abilene, Texas, November 10, 1998. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 43
“Anything for Larry,” Copyright Texas, San Antonio, Texas, September 13, 1998.
“The Art of the Essay,” Borders, Austin, Texas, September 12, 1998.
“Cowboys & Cadillacs: Texas in the Movies,” UT Sage Spring Enrichment Lecture Program, Austin, Texas, April 6, 1998.
“Waiting for Cormac,” Texas Writers Month Panel, Austin, Texas, May 21, 1998.
“What’s Buried in ‘The Grave,’” Katherine Anne Porter Symposium, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, May 15, 1998.
“Katherine Anne Porter: Texas Heroine,” Texas Writers Month Panel, Austin, Texas, May 5, 1998.
“Texas in the Movies: A Lone Star State of Mind,” SAGE, University of Texas, April 6, 1998.
“Katherine Anne Porter’s Journey from Texas to the World,” Dallas Museum of Art, April 2, 1998.
“Anything for Larry,” Literary Club, TCU, Fort Worth, April 1, 1998.
“Biography’s Desire,” Texas Association of Creative Writers, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, February 1998.
“Texas in the Movies: Tradition and Innovation,” Keynote Address, Texas Association of Creative writers, University of Texas at Dallas, February 1998.
“Audie Murphy’s War,” Jefferson Theater, Beaumont, Texas, February 10, 1998.
“Anything for Larry,” “Paris, as in Texas,” and “What the World Wants to Know,” Department of English, Lamar State University, Beaumont, Texas, February 10, 1998.
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“The Lone Star State of Texas Film,” Two-Year College English Association Southwest Conference,” Austin, Texas, October 18, 1997.
“Texas in the Movies: A Lone Star State of Mind,” Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Seguin, Texas,
“Cowboy History from the Bottom Up,” Session on Drovers and Cowboys, Brisbane Writers Festival, Brisbane, Australia, September 7, 1997. [Also chaired this session].
“Ghosts and Empty Sockets,” Spring Writing, Rozelle, Sydney, Australia, September 10, 1997.
“American Narratives,” Spring Writing, Rozelle, Sydney, Australia, September 11, 1997.
“Giant Country,” Graduate Creative Writing Class, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, September 9, 1997.
“Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb: Three Legends of Texas Literature,” History Awareness Workshop/Texas State Historical Association, July 24, 1997.
“Anything for Larry,” Texas Observer Appreciation Benefit, Austin, Texas, June 14, 1997.
“The Lone Star State of Film and Literature: A Slide Lecture,” Texas 2000 Conference, Austin, Texas, April 18, 1997.
“Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb: Three Legends of Texas Literature,” The Friends of the TCU Library, April 1, 1997, Fort Worth, Texas.
“Reading and Writing in Texas,” Texas Writers’ Month Celebration, Austin, Texas, May 6, 1997.
“Audie’s War: A Slide Lecture,” Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, May 12, 1997.
“Katherine Anne Porter’s Texas,” Katherine Anne Porter Museum, Kyle, Texas, May 15, 1997.
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“Ghosts and Empty Sockets” [short story], Texas/SW Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, March 27, 1997.
“What the World Wants to Know,” Border Voices ‘96 Literary Festival, El Paso, Texas, November 15, 1996.
“The Western Landscape in Film,” Texas Tech Museum, Lubbock, Texas, November 3, 1996.
“The Voice on the Verandah” [short story],Texas Culture Bash ‘96, Austin, Texas, September 22, 1996.
“My Post-Modern Life Among Guns,” Blokes and Ammo Panel, Brisbane Literary Festival, Brisbane, Australia, September 5, 1996.
“The Western and Texas Viewed Through the Movies,” Brisbane Literary Festival, Brisbane, Australia, September 6, 1996.
“Waco/Taco: Remarks on Regionalism,” Regionalism vs. Parochialism Panel, Spring Writing Conference, Roselle (Sydney), Australia, September 7, 1986.
“Biography and the Temptations of Narrative,” Writing Lives Panel, Spring Writing Conference, Roselle (Sydney), Australia, September 7, 1996.
“Continental Desire: An Academic Travel Story,” Voices from Abroad Panel, Spring Writing Conference, Roselle (Sydney), Australia, September 8, 1996.
“From The Great Train Robbery to The Quick and the Dead: a History of the American Western,” NEH Institute: Integrating Curricula Through Southwestern Studies, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, August 7, 1996.
“Cowboys and Cadillacs: Representations of Southwesterners in Film,” NEH Institute: Integrating Curricula Through Southwestern Studies, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, August 7, 1996.
“Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Menstrual Cycle: A Post-Lacanian Reading of Red River,” NEH Institute: Integrating Curricula Through Southwestern Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 46
Studies, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, August 7, 1996.
“Audie Murphy, Texas Hero,” American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas, June 11, 1996.
“J. Frank Dobie and the O’Connor Ranch,” Texas Excellence Scholars, Gaffney Ranch, South Texas, April 19, 1996.
“Texas Literary Legends—Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb,” Symposium on Legends, Education Service Center Region XV, San Angelo, Texas, March 25, 1996.
“J. Frank Dobie and the C-Word,” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association & Southwest/Texas American Culture Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 10, 1996.
“America in the Recent Work of Michael Wilding: A Reading of This Is For You,” South-Central Modern Language Association, Houston, Texas, October 26, 1995.
“Anything for Larry,” 1995 Fall Literary Festival, Center for Texas Studies, Denton, Texas, September 15, 1995.
“Anything for Larry,” Literary Bash, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, July 22, 1995.
“Texas Fiction: An Overview, With Some Observations on its Present State,” Institute of Texas History, University of Texas, June 14, 1995.
“The Cowboy Poetry Scene: Some Observations on Verse and Worse,” Southwest Vaqueros, Universal City, Texas, June 20, 1995.
“John Graves and Texas Letters,” John Graves Day, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, March 4, 1995.
“A Seven-Minute History of Texas in the Movies,” Littlefield Foundation, University of Texas, Austin, February 24, 1995.
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“Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing,” Austin Women’s Book Club, Austin, February 4, 1995.
“Audie Murphy: War Hero to Movie Star,” The Making of Modern Texas, Texas A&M at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, January 25, 1995.
“The Comic Texan: The Origin and Persistence of a Stereotype,” American Literature Association Conference on American Humor, Cancun, Mexico, December 9, 1994.
“George Sessions Perry’s Hold Autumn in Your Hand and the Southern Tradition in Southwestern Literature,” National Collegiate Honors Council Conference ‘94, San Antonio, Texas, October 29, 1994.
“Writing About Place: Texas, For Example,” Flowers Hall Dedication Lectures, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, October 27, 1994.
“The Representation of Texas in Film,” Lorraine Sherley Literature Symposium, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, October 1, 1994.
“Time-Traveling Through Texas: An Overview of Texas in the Movies,” Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, June 14, 1994.
“Audie Murphy: Bringing the War Back Home,” Littlefield Foundation, University of Texas, February 24, 1994.
“The Texas Literary Tradition,” Institute of Texas Studies, University of Texas, June 16, 1993.
“The Idea of America in Michael Wilding’s Fiction,” American Association of Australian Literary Studies, Austin, Texas, April 23, 1993.
“Audie Murphy,” University Honors Center/Normandy Scholar Program, University of Texas, April 7, 1993.
“The Western Landscape Goes to the Movies (or How the West Was Fun),” American West Lecture Series, Wittie Museum, San Antonio, February 17, 1993. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 48
“Texas Sharecroppers in Books and Movies,” Texas in the Great Depression Lecture Series, Texas A&M at Galveston, February 10, 1993.
“The Image of Texas in the Movies,” Update ‘92, Ex-Students’ Association, University of Texas, July, 1992.
“James Fenimore Cooper and the Western Film: Where It All Began,” Johnston Magnet School, Austin, Texas, October 15, 1992.
“Modern Australian Literature and the Image of America,” Faculty Seminar on British Studies, University of Texas, September 25, 1992.
“Texans in Film,” William A. Owens Memorial Lectures, East Texas State University, Commerce, Tx., Marth 21, 1991.
“The Western in the Nineties,” Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, April, 1991.
“Frank Norris: New Directions,” American Literature Association, Washington, D. C., May 25, 1991.
“Texas Fiction in the Nineties,” Texas State Historical Association, University of Texas, June 12, 1991.
“Texas in the Movies,” Conference on American Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, November 24,1991.
"Audie Murphy and the Other Invasion of France," Lecture at Normandy Scholars Program, Caen War Memorial, Caen, France, April, 1990.
"Writing Biography," East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, October, 1989.
"Images of the Trail Drive in Movies," TCU/Chisholm Trail Writers Workshop, Fort Worth, Texas, June 9, 1989.
"Movie Scripts and Nonfiction Books," TCU/Chisholm Trail Writers Workshop, Fort Worth, Texas, June 10, 1989.
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"The Marketing of Audie Murphy," Popular Culture Association Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, April, 1989.
"Texas Writing in the Post-Dobie Era," Keynote Address, 3rd Annual Symposium on Composition and Literature, Amarillo College, Amarillo, April 19, 1988.
"In Search of Audie Murphy," Friends of the Library, NTSU, Denton, March 31, 1988.
"On Writing Biography," Center for Texas Studies, NTSU, Denton, March 31, 1988.
"The Use of Literature and Movies in Teaching Texas History," Texas State Historical Association, Austin, March 5, 1988.
"J. Frank Dobie: A Reappraisal," Luncheon Keynote Address, Texas State Historical Association, Austin, March 4, 1988.
"Land Without Myth, or Texas and the Mystique of Nostalgia," Conference on Open Spaces, City Places, Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 20, 1987.
Moderator, "Football, Fine Arts, and Other Such Foolishness: The Life and Times of Four Texas Legends," (Larry King, Dan Jenkins, Gary Cartwright, and Edwin Shrake), Austin, Nov. 5, 1987.
"Regionalism on the Ramparts: Texas Literature," Institute of Texas History, Texas State Historical Association, University of Texas, Austin, June 17, 1987.
"J. Frank Dobie and the Case for Regionalism," Southwest Vaqueros, Universal City, April 21, 1987.
"Galveston Without Mountains, or Truth in Labeling in Texas Films," Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, February 2, 1987.
All-day workshop on Texas Myths, Literature, and Folklore, NCTE, San Antonio, November 24, 1986.
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"Images of Texas in the Movies," North Harris County College, Houston, November 19, 1986.
"Teaching the Literature of the Southwest," Conference on Teaching of Literature in the Secondary Schools, University of Texas, Austin, November 18, 1986.
"Filmmaking in Texas," at Governor's Sesquicentennial Conference on the Literary Arts, North Texas State University, Denton, September 25-27, 1986. Short address, plus chairing one panel discussion and participation in another panel discussion.
"Images of Texas in the Movies," Galveston College, Rosenberg Library, September 3, 1986.
"Viva Max! and the Tradition of Alamo Movies," Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, July, 1986.
"Texas Voices: The Wolf and the Buffalo," Greenville Public Library, May, 1986.
"Texas Voices: The Wolf and the Buffalo," Waco Public Library, April, 1986.
"Galveston Without Mountains," North Texas State University, Denton, April, 1986.
"Galveston Without Mountains: The Image of Texas in Recent Films," Conference on Images of Texas, Tarleton State, Stephenville, Texas, April, 1986.
"Galveston Without Mountains, or Truth in Labeling in Texas Films," Southwest Texas State University Humanities Lecture, San Marcos, April, 1986.
"Texas in the Movies: A Slide Lecture," Sul Ross State College, Alpine, April, 1986.
"Texas Voices: The Gay Place," Waco Public Library, April, 1986.
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"Texas Voices: The Gay Place," Wimberly Public Library, April, 1986.
"Lonesome Dove: Sources Real and Imagined," Popular Culture Associa- tion, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1986.
"Texas in the Movies: A Slide Lecture," Corpus Christi State University, March, 1986.
"The Texas Military Tradition in Texas Films," Conference on the Texas Military Tradition, Texas A&M University, March, 1986.
"Hollywood Looks at Texas," Tarrant County Junior College, March, 1986.
"Texas in the Movies: A Slide Lecture," Lamar State University, Beaumont, March, 1986.
"Texas Voices: The Gay Place," Burnet Public Library, March 1986.
"A Short History of Texas in the Movies: A Slide Lecture," Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, February, 1986.
"Texas Regionalism," Austin College, Sherman, Texas, January, 1986.
"The Big Show," Texas A&M Film series, January, 1986.
"Mark Twain and the Vernacular Tradition in Texas: The Example of Bill Brett," Conference on Mark Twain and His America, Siena College, NY, December, 1985.
"The Short Story in Texas," SCMLA, Tulsa, November, 1985.
"Uncovered Wagon: a Texas Classic," Western American Literature Association, Fort Worth, Texas, October, 1985.
"A Sense of Place: Literary Realism in Today's Texas," St. Mary's University, San Antonio, October, 1985.
"The American Farm Movie: Romance and Politics," Symposium on Agriculture and Fiction, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, September, 1985. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 52
"A Short History of Texas in Western Movies: A Slide Lecture," Conference on Literature and Film, Salisbury State College, Salisbury, Maryland, June, 1985.
"South, West, Southwest: The Search for a Texas Literary Tradition," Institute of Texas History, Austin, Texas, June, 1985.
"Texas in the Movies: A Slide Lecture," Sesquicentennial Lecture Series, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, March, 1985.
"Texas in the Movies: A Slide Lecture," Texas Joint Council of Teachers of English, Houston, Texas, February 1985.
"The Big Show: Comedy and History in a B Western," Symposium on Texas Myth in Film, Southwest Alternate Media Project, Houston, Texas, February, 1985.
"The Southerner," Symposium on the Land Myth in Texas, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, November 1984.
"Media Myths: Texas in the Movies," Symposium on Texas Myths: The Personal and Collective Mythology, Institute for the Humanities at Salado, Salado, Texas, October, 1984.
"J. Frank Dobie's Library: A Report on His View of Contemporary South- western Fiction," Western American Literature Association, Reno, Nevada, October 1984.
"Budd Boetticher: Western Moralist," at Symposium on Inventing the West, University of Texas, September, 1984.
"Western Films and American Culture: Four Lectures," UNAM, Mexico City, March, 1984.
"Cowboys and Cadillacs: The Image of Texas in the Movies," Texas A&M University, November, 1985. Versions of this talk also delivered at the fol- lowing places during spring 1984: University of Houston, Downtown Campus; North Texas State University; Tarlton State University; Southwesterners' Club, Abilene, Texas; Rice University. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 53
"The Displacement of East Texas in Movies About Texas," East Texas Historical Association, Galveston, Texas, February 24, 1984.
"Cowboys and Cadillacs: The Image of Texas in The Movies," Amarillo Art Center, September, 1983.
"South, West, Southwest: Literature in Texas," lecture, Institute of Texas History, University of Texas, Austin, June, 1983.
"John Wayne and the End of the West in The Man Who Shot Liberty Val- ance," Lecture at MacMurray College, Abilene, May, 1983.
"The First Picture Show: Early Images of Texas in the Movies," West Texas Historical Association, Abilene, April, 1983.
"Cowboys and Cadillacs: Cinematic Images of the Lone Star State," Gallery Talk, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, March, 1983.
"The Texas Mystique," Conference on the Texas Literary Tradition, University of Texas, Austin, March, 1983.
"Inventing Texas: Stereotypes and Reality in Modern Texas Fiction," The Institute of Texas Studies, Austin, June 11, 1981.
"A Farm Boy's Progress: The Autobiographies of William A. Owens," Owens Symposium, North Texas State University, Denton, November, 1980.
"J. Frank Dobie's Reception of Contemporary Southwestern Fiction," Rocky Mountain MLA, Denver, Colorado, October 1980.
"Inventing Texas: Stereotypes and Reality in Modern Texas Fiction," The Institute of Texas Studies, Austin, June 14, 1979.
" 'The Tin Star' and High Noon: From Source to Film," Western American Literature Association, Albuquerque, 1979.
"High Noon: A Feminist Movie?," Rocky Mountain MLA, Albuquerque, 1979. Don B. Graham Curriculum Vitae 54
"From Chinese to English: Ezra Pound's 'Separation on the River Kiang,'“ South-Central MLA, Houston, October, 1979.
"Men and Boys in Westerns of the 1950's," Rocky Mountain MLA, Phoenix, Arizona, November, 1978.
"William Eastlake's First Novel: The Making of Go In Beauty," Western American Literature Association, Park City, Utah, October, 1978.
"Tragedy and Western American Literature: The Example of Michael Straight," Western American Literature Association, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1977.
"Frank Norris: Developments in the Scholarship," Special Session, MLA, New York, December 28, 1976.
"The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid and the Cinematic Legend of Jesse James," Popular Culture Association of the South, Knoxville, April, 1976.
"Stephen Crane," Bicentennial Conference on the Continuing Revolutionary Tradition of New Jersey Authors, Kean College, Union, New Jersey, March, 1976.
"Aesthetic Experience in Realism," Seminar on American Literary Realism, MLA, San Francisco, December 29, 1975.
"Is Dallas Burning? Notes on Recent Texas Fiction," Texas State Historical Association, Waco, March, 1974.
"The Superstud/Superspade Black Male Hero in the Fiction of Iceberg Slim, Frank Yerby, and Chester Himes," Popular Culture Association Meeting, Indianapolis, April, 1973.
"Of Edsels and Marauders," South-Central Institute of Names, Commerce, Texas, 1970.
"Goodbye, Columbus and The Great Gatsby: Some Thematic Relationships," South-Central MLA, Memphis, October, 1970.
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"Utopian Turtletops and Brunette Angels: Some Remarks on Poetry and Advertising," Conference of College Teachers of English in Texas, Dallas, 1970.
Panels:
Moderator, “Lone Star Literature: Texas Writing Today--Readings by Stephen Harrigan,Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Oscar Casares, and Betsy Berry,” Association of Writing and Writing Programs. Austin, Texas, March 11, 2006.
Moderator, The 2nd Annual Texas Writers Month Celebration and Book Signing, Book Stop/Central Park, Austin, March 7, 1996.
Moderator, Panel: “Tales from the Trenches: Four Hollywood Screenwriters (Callie Khouri, Scott Frank, Ed Solomon, Shane Black),” Austin Heart of Film Festival, Austin, Tx, October 6, 1995.
Moderator, “The Texas Connection: Knopf & Lone Star Writers,” Scholz Garten, Austin, Texas, September 13, 1995.
Chair, Australasian Literature and Film, SCMLA, New Orleans, October 11, 1994.
Moderator, “Writer’s Roundtable: A Discussion on Publishing,” The State and Fate of Publishing: The First Biennial Flair Symposium, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, November 12, 1994.
Conference on Southern Literature, NEH, Oxford, Univ., Jan. 6-10, 1989.
Chair, Session on The Misfits, Western American Literature Association, Reno, Nevada, October, 1984.
Concluding Remarks, Texas Women's Literary Tradition: A Conference and Celebration, Austin, Texas, September 22, 1984.
Panel Discussion on The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, Western Ameri- can Literature Association, Minneapolis, October, 1983.
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Panel on High Plains Drifter, Western American Literature Association, Denver, October, 1982.
Secretary, Popular Culture Section, Rocky Mountain MLA, Albuquerque, 1979.
Chairman, Tales and Tall Tales Session, Western American Literature Association, Park City, Utah, 1978.
Chairman of Dialogue Session, "Creative Writing: Prose and Con," NCTE Meeting, Philadelphia, 1973.
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