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John Graves, Writer
No full textIntro -- Contents -- Preface (Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon) -- Introduction (Mark Busby) -- PART ONE. Talking with John Graves -- The Writer John Graves Symposium (Sam Hynes, Dave Hickey, John Graves, and Mark Busby) -- An Interview with John Graves (Dave Hamrick) -- PART TWO. Friends -- John (Bill Wittliff) -- John Graves: A Tribute (Rick Bass) -- John Graves Tribute, November 11, 2000 (William Broyles) -- John Graves From Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family (John R. Erickson) -- Texas Past, Texas Present (Bill Harvey) -- The Golden Age of John Graves (James Ward Lee) -- PART THREE. Works -- Haunted Landscapes: The Ecology of Story in John Graves' Texas (Alex Hunt) -- Goodbye to a River and American Environmental Literature (Terrell Dixon) -- Two Approaches to Ecology and Gender in Goodbye to a River (James Langston) -- Boys' Stories: Beverly Lowry, John Graves, and the (Male) Texas Literary Tradition in The Perfect Sonya (Betsy Berry) -- Of Dachshunds and Dashes: Subjects and Style in E. B. White and John Graves (Dickie Maurice Heaberlin) -- Brazos Bildungsroman: John Graves and Texas in Transition in Goodbye to a River (Lisa Slappey) -- Contested Landscapes: John Graves' Meditations on Hard Scrabble Texas History and Ecosystems (Barbara J. Cook) -- Kindred Spirits: John Graves and Texas Monthly (Cory Lock) -- Auroras of Autumn: John Graves' Valedictions (Don Graham) -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Oral History Interview with John Graves, December 14, 2003
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Graves. Graves joined the Marine Corps Reserves while attending the Rice Institute in 1941. After graduation he was sent to Quantico, Virginia in June 1942. He was placed into a candidate?s class, a reserve officer?s class, and then an artillery class. He was sent to Camp Pendleton, California to train artillerymen. In January 1944, he was sent to Hawaii as the Battery Executive Officer of E battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment of the 4th Marine Division. He recounts his experiences in the Battles of Kwajalein and Saipan. He was injured by a grenade on Saipan. He relates his experiences in a tent hospital on Saipan and naval hospitals in Hawaii and Long Beach, California. As a result of his injury, he spent the remainder of the war on limited duty
John Woodcock Graves Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textJohn Woodcock Graves (1795-1886) was born in Cumberland, U.K.,
and emigrated to Tasmania in 1834. He is chiefly
remembered for the song 'D'ye ken John Peel' which he wrote
to a traditional Cumberland air. Includes notes to song, anothre song written on the verso. Programme for the unveiling of a memorial to J.W. Graves in St. Davids Park Hobart 1958. A page of notes on Graves.
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Replication data for: "Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns"
No full textDoyle, Joseph, Graves, John, and Gruber, Jonathan, (2019) "Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns." Review of Economics and Statistics 101:5, 841-852
Replication data for: "Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns"
No full textDoyle, Joseph, Graves, John, and Gruber, Jonathan, (2019) "Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns." Review of Economics and Statistics 101:5, 841-852
Elder, John Graves - An inaugural dissertation on intermittent fever
No full textHandwritten inaugural dissertation on intermittent fever by John Graves Elder, of Monticello, Georgia.Inaugural dissertation; no. 417
John Temple Graves II papers, W.0109
No full textAbstract: Manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings written by and related to Birmingham newspaper columnist John Temple Graves II.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper columnist John Temple Graves II. Manuscripts and letters written by Graves make up the bulk of the collection, although the collection also contains a small number of letters written by Graves' wife, Rose Duncan Smith Graves, to family members. Approximately forty letters document Graves' personal and professional life. Letters from John to Rose describe speaking engagements and business trips to West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. The collection also includes a number of letters written by newspaper editors and publishers discussing the syndication of Graves' newspaper column.Typescript copies of Graves' poetry and prose are also included. The majority of these manuscripts are copies of poems written from 1910 to 1926. The collection also includes two longer manuscripts: the short story "Up Like Thunder" and the historical essay "Atlanta, New York, and Henry Grady," exploring the life of the
Atlanta Constitution editor.Biographical/Historical Note: The son of Atlanta newspaper editor and orator John Temple Graves and Anne Cothran, John Temple Graves II was born on April 25, 1892, in Rome, Georgia. Graves attended Princeton University, graduating in 1915, and studied law at George Washington University. On October 17, 1931, Graves married Rose Duncan in Birmingham, Alabama.He briefly worked as an economist at the Federal Trade Commission before beginning a career in journalism that spanned more than three decades. After his father's death in 1925, Graves moved to Florida and began writing articles for what had been his father's column in the
Palm Beach Times. In 1929, he moved to Birmingham and began writing a daily column, "This Morning," for the
Birmingham Age-Herald. In 1946, Graves left the
Age-Herald to join the staff of the
Birmingham Post, where he continued to write his column under the new title "This Afternoon." Graves's columns were syndicated and reprinted in newspapers throughout the South. Like his father, Graves was also known as an accomplished lecturer, speaking to audiences throughout the nation. By the end of his career Graves had become an outspoken supporter of segregation and state's rights. His book
The Fighting South, published in 1943, offered a defense of segregation and denounced federal intervention into Southern politics.Graves died on May 19, 1961, shortly after defending his racial views on the national
CBS Reports broadcast "Who Speaks for Birmingham?
Oral History Interview with John Graves, December 14, 2003
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Graves. Graves joined the Marine Corps Reserves while attending the Rice Institute in 1941. After graduation he was sent to Quantico, Virginia in June 1942. He was placed into a candidate?s class, a reserve officer?s class, and then an artillery class. He was sent to Camp Pendleton, California to train artillerymen. In January 1944, he was sent to Hawaii as the Battery Executive Officer of E battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment of the 4th Marine Division. He recounts his experiences in the Battles of Kwajalein and Saipan. He was injured by a grenade on Saipan. He relates his experiences in a tent hospital on Saipan and naval hospitals in Hawaii and Long Beach, California. As a result of his injury, he spent the remainder of the war on limited duty
1917-02-28 Testimony of John H. Graves
No full textThe testimony of John H. Graves given before the Lawrence County Circuit Court on February 28, 1917
[Portrait of John Graves]
No full textPhotograph of Texan author John Graves seated in front a curtained window between two large wooden bookshelves. Graves wears a checkered shirt and khakis, and looks forward with his hands in his lap. This image is copyrighted
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