title: True Facts, Tall Tales, and Pure Fiction (Southwestern Writers Collection Series)
author:  Larry L. King 
description: For years now I've considered Larry L. King one of the finest and most versatile of our American writers. . . . Even at his most cutting, his writing would be characterized by a commitment to authentic American valuesalmost to an older and vanished America whose expressed ideals of democratic justice and humility touched somehow the unsophisticated young men in its provinces and shaped them into maturity. (Willie Morris )
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  _Southwes tern Writers Collect ion Series_ C o n n i e To d d, E d i to r
  
  
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  Writers Collection, an archive and literary center established at Texas State
  University–San Marcos to celebrate the region’s writers and literary heritage.
  
  
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  **L** o n e S ta r S l e u t h s
  
  
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