{"product_id":"elmer-kelton-essays-and-memories-paperback","title":"Elmer Kelton: Essays and Memories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudy Alter\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJames Ward Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecalled a \"novelist who brought the sensibility of the old-style western to bear on a modern Texas landscape of oil fields and financially troubled ranches.\" Kelton was also a modest, kind man, always willing to advise a struggling writer or write a blurb for a first time published author, or assign publishing rights to his six masterpieces to a small university press.\u003cbr\u003eTCU Press owes a great debt of gratitude to Kelton, and this volume, \u003ci\u003eElmer Kelton: Memories and Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, attempts to explore just what it is that made Kelton its leading author.\u003cbr\u003eEditors Judy Alter and James Ward Lee gathered together a group of Kelton aficionados who had either published or taught or sold his books, or were simply friends. In several meetings, they divided up the main themes of Kelton's writing: Alter provides the overview of Kelton's career; Felton Cochran, longtime owner of Cactus Books in San Angelo, describes how the friendship between bookstore owner and author grew over the years; Ricky Burk, pastor of the church from which Kelton was buried, talks about the man's influence in his community; Kelton's son, Steve, explains how Kelton's career as journalist permeated his novels; Ruth McAdams, who has taught Kelton for years, explores how he deals with the themes of endurance and change; Joyce Roach delicately covers how race and ethnicity figure in Kelton's plots and the development of his unforgettable characters; Lee gives readers his inimitable take on the Hewey Calloway Trilogy--\u003ci\u003eThe Good Old Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Smiling Country, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSix Bits a Day\u003c\/i\u003e; and Bob J. Frye takes a wry look at Kelton's use of humor throughout his career. The book also contains Kelton's own view of the history of the Western novel, a response to revisionist criticism. And finally Cochran provides us a list of most, not all, of Elmer Kelton's extraordinary body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudy Alter is the former director of TCU Press and author of more than forty books. Her most recent books are \u003ci\u003eCooking My Way through Life with Books and Kids\u003c\/i\u003e, published by State House Press (2009), and, with Katie Sherrod, \u003ci\u003eGrace and Gumption: The Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e, published by TCU Press (2010).\u003cbr\u003eJames Ward Lee is the author of \u003ci\u003eClassics of Texas Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (E-Heart Press, 1987), \u003ci\u003eTexas, My Texas\u003c\/i\u003e (UNT Press, 1992), \u003ci\u003eAdventures with a Texas Humanist \u003c\/i\u003e(TCU Press, 2007), and \u003ci\u003eTexas Country Singers\u003c\/i\u003e (TCU Press, 2008), among others. He is a fellow of the Texas Folklore Society and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.99 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696744370239,"sku":"9780875654263","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/307f6a3d8e80bf091f8a832895de0df3.webp?v=1765007179","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/elmer-kelton-essays-and-memories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}