John Graves at home

Bob Cox writes “A DFW.com Article on author Jon Graves.

Graves, the 83-year-old author of the classic Goodbye to a River, a National Book Award finalist in 1961, and several other impeccably crafted titles about man and nature, was an obvious recipient. But he agreed only after a close friend (Fort Worth behind-the-scenes power Ruth Carter Stevenson) talked him into it.”