Texas Bound: 19 Texas Stories (Southwest Life and Letters) - Softcover

KAY CATTARULLA holds degrees from Cornell and Columbia universities. After an early career in book publishing in New York, she lived for ten years in Europe, South America, and the Middle East, accompanying her husband, Elliot, an executive with Exxon Corporation. On their return to New York in the seventies, she allied herself with a group of performing artists in a pioneering community theater on the Upper West Side. She worked for twelve years for that organization, Symphony Space, and in 1985 originated the nationally known literary series "Selected Shorts," in which actors read short fiction to a live audience. In 1990 the Cattarullas moved to Dallas, and in 1992 Kay founded the "Arts & Letters Live" literary series. The Cattarullas have one son, John.

A staff writer for the New Yorker, LAWRENCE WRIGHT is the author of four non-fiction books: City Children, Country Summer; In the New World: Growing Up with America , 1960–1984; Saints and Sinners; and Remembering Satan. He was born in Dallas and lives in Austin.