Lon tinkle biography for kids

From the 1940s through the 1970s, Lon Tinkle was a brilliant presence in the Texas Institute of Letters as well as on the Texas and Southwestern literary scene. It’s no stretch to säga the national literary scen, too.

He was a fifth-generation Texan whose ancestor fought at the Alamo; he was born in Oak Cliff in 1906 and earned two degrees on the north side of town at Southern Methodist University; he was a longtime book editor and critic at The Dallas Morning News;hewas a mästare teacher at SMU of French literature and cultural studies; he was a mentor to me and many others at SMU; and he was an elegant Francophile whose studies at the Sorbonne in Paris never seemed far away from his distinctive personality.

His primary forum to the general public and to intellectuals alike was on the books page of TheNews. His importance was that he understood the tradition of Texas and its writing with all its elements of frontier myth and its hard reality.

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A Corner Forever Texas: The Southwestern Writers Collection

Richard A. Holland

TEXAS FOLKLORISTS AND COLLECTORS ARE FULLY AWARE OF THE healthy market in materials related to the life and writings of J. Frank Dobie. Dobie's long career as a writer, his legendary generosity as an inscriber of books, the limited availability of the special editions of his works, and the large number of important association items on the market are some of the factors that have made Dobie much sought after in bookshops, dealer's catalogues, and in venues such as the annual Texas State Historical Association auction.

The state of Dobie's original material, i.e., his book manuscripts, research files, correspondence, diaries, and personal papers, was thought to be long settled. Everyone knew that Dobie's own library and manuscripts resided at “the University.” Although that is largely true, the placement of Dobie's materials a