Robert Draper

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Turn Out the Lights

Chronicles of Texas during the 80s and 90s

By Gary Cartwright; Introduction by Robert Draper
University of Texas Press

This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Splendor in the Short Grass

The Grover Lewis Reader

By Grover Lewis and Robert Draper; Edited by Jan Reid and W. K. Stratton; Introduction by Dave Hickey
University of Texas Press

The best articles by the Rolling Stone and Village Voice writer whose commentaries on movies and music set the standard for cultural reporting in the New Journalism of the Sixties and Seventies.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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We Were Not Orphans

Stories from the Waco State Home

By Sherry Matthews; Introduction by Robert Draper
University of Texas Press

In these amazing stories, Texans who spent their youth in an institution for “dependent and neglected” children reveal both the positive outcomes and the horrific abuses that resulted when a government-run “home” was allowed to operate for decades without any public oversight.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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