Undaunted by the furor caused by his first listing, A. C. Greene offers a new selective survey for anyone who wants to know more about Texas and Texas books. Each of the selections in The 50+ Best Books on Texas have been completely rewritten, or added to, or updated in this 1998 offering.
A. C. Greene, born in Abilene, Texas, authored over twenty books. He was also a newspaper editor and university professor, and worked in both television and radio.
What Readers Are Saying:
“A. C. Greene's list of ‘The Fifty Best Texas Books,’ first published in the August 1981 issue of Texas Monthly, was by the author's own admission subjective, but also daring. It attempted to discriminate and judge, something not many critics of Texas writing had been willing to do prior to the 1980s. Greene apparently accomplished his goal: he provoked. The purpose of Larry McMurtry's now famous essay, ‘Ever a Bridegroom: Reflections on the Failure of Texas Literature,’ was, in part at least, to dispute Greene's contention that fifty good Texas books exist. . . . The public response was immediate and sometimes explosive.” --Range Wars