George Sessions Perry

About the Book

George Sessions Perry: The Man and His Words is the first biography of the Texas novelist, short story writer, and war correspondent in a generation and the first to use his personal letters and files to allow his words to tell the story. The story is an intriguing one, of a talented but troubled man from Rockdale, Texas who won the National Book Award for Hold Autumn in Your Hand and became one of the most widely read writers in the nation before his untimely demise by drowning in 1956. The biography commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of Perry’s birth.

About the Author

Garna L. Christian has written four published articles on George Sessions Perry, one of which won the best article of the year award from the East Texas Historical Association, and two encyclopedia articles. His book, Black Soldiers in Jim Crow, Texas, 1899-1917, won three awards including the T.R. Fehrenbach Award of the Texas Historical Commission. A native Houstonian, whose father was born in Rockdale, Texas, Christian is a professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association.