Holley of the Houston Chronicle wrote that "apparently because of Swanson’s book" Dallas Love Field removed a statue of a Texas Ranger. The author Douglas Jules Swanson, a native of Florida, was born in 1953. He graduated from University of Texas in 1977 and spent a year as the John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He worked as a journalist for 35 years at the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News. Until Cult of Glory, he was best known for his 1990s mystery series about private investigator Jake Flippo. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. He has taught journalism and writing at Southern Methodist University, the University of North Texas, and the University of Texas at Austin. As of 2021,Swanson is a Research Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Bibliography Notes References (U.S. Newsstream database). Primary references (e-book), (print); (e-book); . External links Books about Texas 2020 non-fiction books Texas Ranger Division Viking Press books