Reavis, Dick J.

Dick J. Reavis was born December 27, 1945 in Elk City, Oklahoma. He was involved with civil rights activism in high school and through college, joining the organizations NAACP, SCOPE, SCLC, and SDS. After graduating from the University of Texas-Austin, Reavis started a career in journalism, moving his way up from his father's newspaper to writing for Texas Observer, and later for Texas Monthly, where he became senior editor until resigning in 1990. His books include Conversations with Moctezuma and The Ashes of Waco. After earning an English MA in 1998, Reavis became a senior-investigative journalist for San Antonio Express-news and a senior editor for Texas Parks and Wildlife. He is now an assistant-professor of journalism at North Carolina State University. He has received three Texas Headliner's Awards, four Katie Awards, and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.

From the description of Dick J. Reavis Papers 1956-2006. (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 73803282

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