We first published John Graves in Texas Monthly in 1974. ... The magazine was young then, ... Ernest Hemingway never mentions World War I in his classic story Big Two hearted River, but it is ...

That same year, another young writer, a Texan named John Graves, set off on his own self-consciously literary journey: He put a canoe in the Brazos River, paddled it 175 miles, and wrote a history ...

Author John Graves Was a Literary Godfather to Texas Monthly The author of Goodbye to a River and two-time National Book Award finalist helped create the magazine’s Country Notes column.

John’s canon-defining classic, Goodbye to a River, was published 46 years ago, in 1960. I wasn’t alive then; nor was more than half of our editorial staff and three quarters of our art staff.

The long, slow, quiet, thoughtful, weird, brilliant, often-interrupted, never-compromised career of John Graves, who died July 30, 2013.

John Graves, a Texas writer whose quietly beautiful, deeply personal book about a canoe trip down the Brazos River in the late 1950s, remains a classic, died July 30 at Hard Scrabble, his small ...

John Graves, a Texas writer whose quietly beautiful, deeply personal book about a canoe trip down the Brazos River in the late 1950s remains a classic, died Tuesday at Hard Scrabble, his small ...

Graves was born Aug. 6, 1920, in Fort Worth, where his father owned a men’s clothing store. His boyhood explorations in the bottoms of the West Fork of the Trinity River and South Texas hunting ...

John Graves, a Texas writer whose book about a canoe trip down the Brazos River in the late 1950s, is regarded as a classic, died on July 30 at Hard Scrabble, his small farm outside Glen Rose. The ...

The Texas Canon: How John Graves' 'Goodbye to a River' honored Texas' beauty The book documented Graves' three-week canoe trip down his beloved piece of the Brazos River. By Wes Ferguson Feb 21, 2024 ...

Texas Author John Graves Dies At 92; Wrote 'Goodbye To A River' : The Two-Way His books became icons of rural life in Texas. Graves' 1960 memoir, Goodbye to a River , recounts a canoe trip along a ...

We conclude our Texas Classics series Sunday with a striking excerpt from John Graves' classic Goodbye to a River. You will find the chapter in Arts & Life. The featured passage is set just south ...