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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Author John Graves, whose 1960 book “Goodbye to a River” and authentic depictions of rural Texas made him one of the state’s most celebrated and beloved writers, has died. He was 92. Graves ...

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 ...

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 ...