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STEVEN L. DAVIS is the author of J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind and Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond. He has been described by the Austin American-Statesman as “one of Texas’ leading scholars of our indigenous culture.” His new book, co-written with Bill Minutaglio, is DALLAS 1963, a riveting account of how a group of larger-than-life individual turned Dallas into a city that became infamous for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DALLAS 1963 will be published by Twelve in Fall 2013, on the 50th anniversary of JFK's tragic trip to Texas. Davis is a Curator at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos, which holds the literary papers of the region's leading writers. He has developed and curated over 30 exhibits at the Wittliff Collections. He has made dozens of talks and presentations to the public. He is editor of Land of the Permanent Wave: An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader and co-editor of Lone Star Sleuths: Mystery-Detective Fiction in Texas. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews, appearing in publications such as Texas Monthly, the Texas Observer, the San Antonio Express-News, Southwestern American Literature, Texas Books in Review, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. In 2009 Davis was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. He currently serves on the TIL Council. Steve Davis also serves as the Series Editor for the Southwestern Writers Collection Book Series, published by the University of Texas Press. He lives in New Braunfels, Texas, with his wife, Georgia Ruiz Davis, and their children. We should also mention Truman the Dog. |
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