About Me
Robert Flynn, professor emeritus, Trinity University and a native of Chillicothe, Texas, is the author of twelve books. Seven novels: North To Yesterday; In the House of the Lord; The Sounds of Rescue, The Signs of Hope; Wanderer Springs, The Last Klick, The Devils Tiger, co-authored with the late Dan Klepper, and Tie-Fast Country. His dramatic adaptation of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying was the United States entry at the Theater of Nations in Paris in l964 and won a Special Jury Award. He is also the author of a two-part documentary, "A Cowboy Legacy," shown on ABC-TV, a nonfiction narrative, A Personal War in Vietnam, an oral history When I Was Just Your Age, two story collections, Seasonal Rain and Living With The Hyenas, and a collection of essays, Growing Up a Sullen Baptist. He is co-editor of Paul Baker and the Integration of Abilities. Flynn also contributes to The Door: "The World’s Pretty Much Only Magazine of Religious Satire." North to Yesterday received awards from the Texas Institute of Letters and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, and was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times. Seasonal Rain, was co-winner of the Texas Literary Festival Award. Wanderer Springs received a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. Living With the Hyenas received a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Flynn’s work has been translated into German, Spanish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Malayalam, Arabic, Tamil, Hindi, Kanada, and Vietnamese. Flynn is a member of The Texas Institute of Letters, The Writers Guild of America, Marine Corps Combat Correspondents, and P.E.N. In 1998, he received the "Distinguished Achievement Award" from the Texas Institute of Letters.Recent Entries
Home of the Brave
Remember when you could sing “the land of the free and the home of the brave” with pride? More than 43,000 veterans declared “medic... read more
Hunting Camp Pranks
Hunting Camp Pranks or The Physiological and Psychological Benefits of Ancient Rites Practiced in Bucolic and Fraternal Settings For reasons yet to... read more
Linda Ballou, an interview
Interview of Linda Ballou, author of Wai-nani: High Chiefess of Hawai'i Q-Linda Ballou, more than 55,000 titles are published every year. Of t... read more
Scott McClellan, enabler
It required former White House spokesman and Bush toady Scott McClellan to shatter the near-sacred Big Lie of a “liberal” media.&r... read more
SLOUCHING TOWARD ZION, Part IV
When Thurston and Elaine returned to Chillicothe from their visit to the Middle East they were changed forever. Elaine, who had never before t... read more
Slouchng Toward Zion III
Before Thurston and Elaine left Israel to begin a romantic desert tour, a man told Thurston that he liked Jesus but he didn’t like Jesus... read more
Slouching Toward Zion, Part II
When Thurston and Elaine met Brother Jerry in Tel Aviv he was exactly what they had expected. Thurston expected he would be ponderous as b... read more
SLOUCHING TOWARD ZION, Part I
Thurston Morton was the kind of Baptist who when he said "thirty-ought-six," he expected everyone to understand what he meant. Elaine was raised in th... read more
Obama's Pastor
Rev. Jeremiah Wright said some ugly things about America: that some of us put America first with God a distant second. For some ... read more
Deadbeat Patriots
I read in the paper about “deadbeat parents” who want the intimacy, companionship, sharing of duties, the solace of family without... read more









