DON GRAHAM is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas (1983); No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy (1989; 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, and in 2007, Literary Austin (TCU Press). Graham has lived in Austin since the late 1970s.
