Authors Steven L. Davis and W.F. Strong will join each other on stage to discuss their recent books The Beating Heart of the World and The Best Stories From Texas. These two master storytellers are sure to inform and entertain with their stories of Texas and the Southwest.
In his new book The Beating Heart of the World, Steven L. Davis tells the fascinating true story of how Taos Pueblo’s Indigenous people recruited members of the famous Taos art colony to help spark a movement for Native justice that reshaped the nation.
In The Best Stories From Texas, W.F. Strong has brought together a collection of his most-requested “Stories from Texas” including the earthy wisdom of common Texas folk; highlights from Texas art, literature, and film; and anecdotes drawn from the out-of-the-way corners of Lone Star lore.
Steven L. Davis served as the longtime literary curator at the Wittliff Collections, is the award-winning author of eight books, and served as President of the Texas Institute of Letters. His previous books include Dallas 1963, winner of the PEN Center Literary Award for Research Nonfiction and The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon & the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD (both co-written with Bill Minutaglio.) He is also the author of the acclaimed books, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind and Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond.
W. F. Strong is perhaps most recognized for his popular radio program, Stories from Texas, which airs on Texas Public Radio in more than thirty markets across the state. A Fulbright Scholar and professor of communications and culture at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, he lives in Harlingen with his wife and daughter.
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