East Texans Love To Talk

About the Book

East Texans Love To Talk is a collection from over a lifetime of listening to his relatives, friends, and residents of East Texas. The stories are sometimes humorous, sometimes factual, and sometimes sentimental. Their value is that they reflect what native East Texans believe to be, or perhaps want to be, the truth about their heritage. In some instances, the tales are told to correct what the narrators believe to be the misleading or false information printed and taught about East Texas by politically correct historians. Some of the stories simply spring from Bonnet´s imagination, and are told to reflect something real about the East Texas and East Texans he has known.

About the Author

Tony Martin has published six books; two under his own name and four others writing as Matthew Bonnet. He is the manager of a private lake community in East Texas. His career has been spent in planning, development, construction and public management. He is a veteran of Vietnam where he served as a combat platoon leader, advisor and staff officer. He was born in Tyler and raised in Dallas, and is a fifth generation Texan. He earned degrees from the University of Texas-Arlington and Southern Methodist University.