![]() ![]() Though lesser known, his short story “The Last Running” is widely lauded as an epitome of the form. ![]() Graves, of course, authored Goodbye to a River: A Narrative, one of the undisputed classics of Texas literature, published by Knopf in 1960 and in print ever since. ![]() I’ll send along more details as I receive them. He was 92 and, of course, a giant of American letters, as well as a past TIL President and a TIL Fellow and Lon Tinkle Award winner. I have received the sad word that John Graves died at his home, Hardscrabble, outside Glen Rose, either last night or early this morning. Today brings the news that John Graves, the quintessential man of Texas letters, has died.įrom Kip Stratton, president of the Texas Institute of Letters: ![]()
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