The Texas Book Award is given
every two years to honor the best book published about Texas. Bass’s latest
work A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of
Hunting and the Hill Country is lyrical, heartfelt and deeply intelligent
in ways that appeal even to non-hunters.
Born in Fort Worth in 1958,
Bass grew up in the suburbs of Houston where he roamed the swamps and woods
along Buffalo Bayou. The book describes his own passage from young manhood,
when the urge to hunt was something primal, to mature adulthood when his
commitment to the hunt had evolved into a commitment to family and preserving
the last wild places in the land.
Bass is the author of 27
books of both fiction and nonfiction, including The Wild March, Why I Came West
and The Lives of Rocks. Several of his works have been finalists for the
National Book Critics Circle Award and Los
Angeles Times Book Award, as we as The
New York Times and Los Angeles Times
“Best Book of the Year” award.
He has been awarded
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim
Foundations, and his short stories and essays have received O. Henry and
Pushcart Prizes. They have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Travel Writing and Best Spiritual Writing.
The TCU Press has
traditionally published the history and literature of Texas and the American
West. As the Press has grown steadily in stature and in its ability to bring
credit to TCU over the last 20 years, it has been praised for publishing
regional fiction, which often doesn’t find a market in New York, and for
discovering and preserving local history.
Reservations for the event
are $30 per person and can be made with Shelda Dean at ext. 6109.