Bert Almon. This Stubborn Self: Tex...

Bert Almon. This Stubborn Self: Texas Autobiographies, 1925-2001 Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP 2002 352 pp ISBN 0-87565-266-2 $3995

Bert Almon, a Texas native and instant professor of modern literature and creative writing at the University of Alberta, measure and estimates eighteen autobiographies reflecting aspects of nineteenth hundred years to contemporary Texas. In a straightforward, used by all sense approach, Almon avoids theories and critical approaches to autobiography and region, focusing instead forward the content of each work as it ponders not only a life unless how a changing Texas