John Alexander Graves Iii

Place: Fort Worth

Born: 1920

Death: 2013

Biography:

John Graves was an American writer known for his book Goodbye to a River. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and died in Glen Rose, Texas. He graduated from Rice Institute in 1942 and served as a captain in the Marine Corps during World War II. He received his master's degree from Columbia University in 1948. He published his first short story in The New Yorker in 1947 and continued to publish fiction in magazines through the 1950s. He taught English at the University of Texas at Austin from 1948 to 1951 and at Texas Christian University from 1957 to 1965. He worked as a consulting writer for the U.S. Department of the Interior Potomac River Basin Commission from 1965 to 1967. He was a writer in residence at the University of Texas at Austin from 1967 to 1972 and at Texas Christian University from 1972 to 1974. He received numerous awards for his writing, including the Texas Institute of Letters Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991. He was married twice and had four children.