Biography
138 stories
No Handicap »
Babe Didrikson’s pioneering career as a woman golfer.
July 2011 by Prudence Mackintosh
He’s No Dummy »
Jeff Dunham speaks for himself.
November 2010 by Josh Eells
Ann Weisgarber »
September 2010 Interview by Mike Shea
Erykah Badu »
Dallas
June 2010 As told to Michael Hall
Where They're From
A memorable hour-long radio special based on the June issue of TEXAS MONTHLY, a co-production with KUT 90.5 FM.
June 2010
Sentimental Journey
The story of the Commemorative Air Force and the Yellow Rose, a WWII B-25 bomber.
January 2010
Working on a Presidential Campaign »
Kenny Thompson on planning Obama’s campaign events.
January 2009 Interview by John Spong
Andy Mullins »
Andy Mullins, midway barker.
October 2008 As told to Jordan Breal
Tour de Farce »
Only yesterday, it seems, my mother was taking me to visit colleges. A second later, here I am, enduring this rite of passage from the other side.
July 2008 by Mimi Swartz
The Man Who Wasn’t There »
Every family has its myths. Some are intended to reveal, and some are intended to conceal, and sometimes the intentions can get confused. The problem with myth, however, is that it can overpower history. That’s what happened in the case of my father, who died when I was four. Only when I finally learned the truth about him could I come to appreciate him as a real person.
June 2008 by Paul Burka
The Devil and Bob Bullock »
Whatever else you could say about him, he was who he was. He enjoyed a drink or three in daylight hours and had a tendency to grope first and ask questions later. But he was as revered as any pol before or since.
January 2008 by Jim Henderson and Dave McNeely
A Lady First »
Today, many younger Texans may be inclined to think of Lady Bird Johnson as belonging entirely to the past. But if her demeanor and style seemed faintly anachronistic, the virtues instilled by her parents back in East Texas—practicality, thriftiness, good manners, and an open mind—made her remarkably effective as a first lady, more so than some of her “modern” successors.
September 2007 by Jan Jarboe Russell
My Dog Days »
What I’ve learned from Moe, Oscar, Flannery, George, Odette, and Roscoe.
May 2007 by Antonya Nelson
He Was A Camera »
Russell Lee’s rarely seen Texas photographs reveal an artist at the peak of his powers of observation.
April 2007 by Michael Ennis
Main Squeeze Blues »
Saying good-bye to my dear Phyllis was the hardest thing I’ve ever done—and losing her so suddenly didn’t make it any easier. But I know I’ll see her again someday.
September 2006 by Gary Cartwright
My Name Is Tonnyre Thomas Joe »
And I am a woman rancher. Here’s what my life is like.
August 2006 As told to Katharyn Rodemann
It’s Hard Out Here For a Pipkin »
Have you heard the good news? My career as a bit player in Hollywood continues apace.
June 2006 by Turk Pipkin
Midnight in the Garden of Memory »
My San Antonio was an overgrown small town, socially stratified and inbred, controlled by a handful of old, wealthy families.
December 2005 by Mimi Swartz
Christmas in Brownsville »
My father, who had grown up on a farm, used to talk about his family’s killing a pig for the tamales, but this was back in the twenties.
December 2005 by Oscar Casares
The Lost City »
A few of the streets near what used to be downtown have familiar names, but Arlington has mutated into a disconnected clump of shopping malls, cul-de-sacs, and gated communities, faceless, soulless neighborhoods that give urban sprawl a bad name.
December 2005 by Gary Cartwright
I of the Storm »
The Gulf carried mendacity in every molecule. Its beauty, its tranquillity, was all a lie. It had created Galveston, carved out its deepwater port, tempted us with the promise of greatness, and then betrayed us.
December 2005 by Paul Burka
Me of Little Faith »
All I know for certain about religion is that the one my mother tried so hard to pass on to me just didn’t take.
December 2005 by Jan Reid
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