J. Frank Dobie Newspaper Columns Scrapbook 1926-1962

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J. Frank Dobie Newspaper Columns Scrapbook 1926-1962

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J. Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his writings on Texas history, culture, and folklore. The scrapbook is a compilation of Dobie's Sunday syndicated newspaper columns and other newspaper articles dating from the 1920s through the 1960s.

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Austin History Center , Austin Public Library, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, 78701.

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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

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J. Frank Dobie was a noted Texas author and English professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also editor of the Texas Folklore Society's publications during the 1930's and 1940's. From the description of Letter : to W.A. Philpott, 1938 April 12. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 22699684 Historian, author, folklorist. Born in 1888 on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, Dobie was awarded his B.A. by Southwestern University (1910), M.A. by Co...

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J. Frank Dobie, folklorist, was born on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, on September 26, 1888. In 1906 he enrolled in Southwestern University in Georgetown, where he met Bertha McKee, whom he married in 1916, and Professor Albert Shipp Pegues, his English teacher, who encouraged him as a writer. He worked two summers as a reporter, first for the San Antonio Express and then the Galveston Tribune . He got his first teaching job in 1910 in Alpine, where he was also the principal, p...