Barbara BrannonAward-winning historian, poet, novelist, and songwriter Barbara Brannon figures that over five decades the number of words she's written about equals the miles she's driven. She holds the M.A. and Ph.D. in from the University of South Carolina, whereshe studied with novelist and poet James Dickey. A former director of the renowned Publishing Laboratory at the University of North Carolina, she now calls Spur, Texas, home. She is coauthor, with Kay Ellington, of the Paragraph Ranch series of contemporary West Texas novels and the 2024 "Route 66 Ramble" newspaper series on which this book is based. Read More Read Less