A Book Lover in Texas

By Evelyn Oppenheimer

A personal and professional memoir of a major literary catalyst in the state--on radio and the lecture platform, as author, agent, teacher, and book collector. Her review broadcasts hold the national record for fifty years on the air. Oppenheimer pulls no punches in her evaluation of books, writers, and the society and organizations related to them, including anecdotes about such literary and artistic stars as Irving Stone, Willie Morris, Peter Hurd, Agatha Christie, Herman Wouk, Leon Uris, James Michener, Jacqueline Susann, and Alistair Cooke. She also tells of her own life and that of a grander and more elegant generation of Dallasites.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929398890
• ISBN13: 9780929398891
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Engaging and forthright

"A Book Lover In Texas" is an engaging and forthright memoir.Evelyn Oppenheimer pulls no punches as she chronicles her five decades as a poet, literary agent, essayist, book collector, and book reviewer (her radio reviews hold the record for forty-five years on the air).Oppenheimer writes about the books of and encounters with such literary figures as Louis L'Amor, Katherine Anne Porter, Larry McMurtry, and opera star Renata Scott, of whom Oppenheimer called "charming [and] utterly unpretentious" (doctor-novelist Frank Slaughter didn't fare as well).Book lovers everywhere will revel in this laudable work.