
What? And Give Up Show Business?
Published January 2021
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-761-5 cloth $39.95
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Publishing since 1947, TCU Press is an award-winning academic publisher whose primary function is to acquire, develop, design, produce, and market quality books of scholarly, intellectual, and artistic merit. Traditionally TCU has developed a strong publishing record in the areas of Texana and Southwestern history, literature, and culture, and many of its books have received recognition from scholars and general readers alike for their contributions to regional and local studies. To bring distinction to its parent university, TCU Press is committed to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge and artistic expression.
TCU Press has several well-established and well-received series. The Texas Tradition Series reprints classic Texas literature that would otherwise disappear from bookstores and libraries, such as the work of Elmer Kelton. One of the greatest contemporary western writers, Kelton novels won eight Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. The Chisholm Trail Series offers books that capture the history and culture of Texas, and Chaparral Books for Young Readers are historical fiction for young adult readers. Believing that history can often come alive more through fiction than textbooks, the aim of the Chaparral series is to captivate youngsters with tales of Texas history.
Two other TCU Press series have won both awards and praise. The Texas Biography Series, sponsored by the Center for Texas Studies at TCU, offers scholarly biographies of Texans who made strong contributions to Texas history, such as Emily Austin, Edmund J. Davis, John S. “Rip” Ford, Adele Briscoe Looscan, and José de los Santos Benavides. Equally well received is the Texas Poet Laureate Series. Begun in 2005, this series has published new and selected work of the most esteemed and accomplished poets in Texas, such as James Hoggard, Walt McDonald, Alan Birkelbach, Karla Morton, Red Steagall, Paul Ruffin, Jan Seale, Larry D. Thomas, Steven Fromholz, David M. Parsons, and Carmen Tafolla.
TCU Press is also the proud publisher of award-winning fiction, including the acclaimed novels of Dan Jenkins, Jan Reid, Tom Zigal, Gerald Duff, Patrick Dearen, Marian Martinello, Beverly Lowry, and C. W. Smith.
As a trade publisher, TCU Press has produced a number of beautiful and distinguished coffee table and photography books, including Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White, Day of the Dead, Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps, Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey, Weird Yet Strange: Notes from an Austin Music Artist, and its Deco books: Hill Country Deco, Fair Park Deco, and DFW Deco.
TCU Press has won awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Western Writers of America, the Texas State Historical Association, the Philosophical Society of Texas, the Academy of Western Artists, the Will Rogers Medallion Award Committee, and PENWest, among others.
VISION STATEMENT
TCU Press seeks to expand upon the university’s core mission through the discovery, development, and dissemination of knowledge by the publication of significant, relevant, and innovative titles in the areas of history and literature of Texas and the American West, with a distinct focus on the discovery and preservation of regional and local history. As an academic publisher, TCU Press contributes to the existing body of scholarly knowledge and creativity.
GOALS STATEMENT
To be a dynamic university press using the most current technology to publish innovative and significant titles and to carry the TCU imprint into the literary world in all its forms.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing Address:
TCU Box 298300
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Shipping Address:
3000 Sandage Ave.
Fort Worth, TX 76109
Phone: (817) 257-7822
Fax: (817) 257-5075
Dr. Dan Williams, Director
(817) 257-5907
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(817) 257-6874
Kathy Walton, Editor
(817) 257-5074
Rebecca Allen, Marketing Manager
(817) 257-6872
Molly Spain, Assistant Editor
(817) 257-7822
What? And Give Up Show Business?
Published January 2021
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-761-5 cloth $39.95
By Dan Jenkins
Published January 2021
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-780-6 paperback $22.00
978-0-87565-727-1 cloth
CH is the Most Challenging Sound
Published February 2021
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-773-8 hardcover (printed case) $21.95
Speak Loudly and Carry A Little Stick
A Conductor's Chronicles
Published January 2021
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-760-8 cloth $42.00
Celebrating a Century of the Trinity River Groove
By Gene Fowler and William Williams
Published March 2021
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-771-4 paperback (with flaps) $36.95
A roman à clef
Published March 2021
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-774-5 paperback $22.95
A Century of Grace
By Karla K. Morton and Alan Birkelbach
Published December 2020
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-763-9 cloth $54.95
With One Hand Tied behind My Brain
A Memoir of Life after Stroke
By Avrel Seale
Published December 2020
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-764-6 paperback $22.95
I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake; New and Selected Poems
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Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-746-2 cloth $19.95
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Edited by April Brown, Ethan Casey and Kaitlyn Snyder
Published November 2020
Texas Christian University Press
978-0-87565-673-1 paperback $20.00