Baylor University || Texas Collection || Texas Authors Event

Baylor University’s Journalism Department and The Texas Collection recently showcased Texas authors Jeff Guinn, Jim Donovan, Carlton Stowers, and Mary Rogers. The four were honored at a reception and book signing in The Texas Collection’s reading room on April 1.

Guinn is a former Books Editor and Senior Writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. His most recent book, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, has been selected as a May Book-of-the-Month Club feature. Baylor is the only college visit on his book tour. Guinn has written twelve books, including The Autobiography of Santa Claus and Noah’s Ride: A Collaborative Western Novel.

The author of A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn, Donovan is also the founder and president of Jim Donovan Literary, a Dallas-based literary agency. He has sold books to major New York publishers, including HarperCollins, Viking Penguin, Random House, and many others.

Stowers is the author of more than two dozen works of nonfiction and is best known for his true crime books, including the Edgar Award-winning Careless Whispers, based on the Lake Waco murders, and To the Last Breath.

Rogers’ Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans features stories she wrote for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.