About the Author

DON GRAHAM is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2006, he received the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Giant Country: Essays on Texas (1998); and Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire (2003). In 2003 Graham edited Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande. Graham has lived in Austin since the late 1970s.