Small Town Author

JOHN R. ERICKSON

Publication: Texas Tech University Press, 2025, Lubbock

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. White boards, titles printed in black on the spine, xii, 287 [1] pp., preface, references, index, about the author. This book documents the journey of a young man eager to escape his Texas Panhandle childhood to the adult who returned to write books for the rural readers he had previously scorned. Erickson is the author of the "Hank The Cowdog" series of books. He also recounts his memories of J. Evetts Haley, Larry McMurtry, Al Dewlen, Elmer Kelton and many other Texas authors of note. As new, unread copy. in dust jacket.