Faculty at Five: Clay Reynolds

Native Texan novelist, essayist, scholar and literary critic, Professor Clay Reynolds is the author of more than nine hundred publications, ranging from scholarly studies to short fiction and poems, essays, critical reviews and more than a dozen published volumes. His published novels include The Vigil, Agatite, Franklin's Crossing, Players, Monuments, The Tentmaker, Ars Poetica, essay collection Threading the Needle, Of Snake and Sex and Playing in the Rain, and a collection of short fiction, Sandhill County Lines. His nonfiction books, authored and edited, include Stage Left: The Development of the American Social Drama, Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook, A Hundred Years of Heroes: A Centennial History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, Twenty Questions: Answers for the Inquiring Writer, and The Plays of Jack London. His novels, short fiction and essays have won numerous awards; he is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.