John Graves is not a just a writer—he’s a character—an 89-year-old Emerson-quoting, city-hating kind of man. When senior editor Gary Cartwright recently visited Graves’s ranch, outside Glen Rose, the ...

Texas has lost a Mad Dog. In 2012, Cartwright was recognized with the Texas Institute of Letters’ Lon Tinkle Award for career achievement. Other professional honors include the Texas Institute of ...