Description: From the rodeo arena to the silver screen--Ben Johnson's true Western tale
Brief description: Kathryn Jones is a journalist, essayist, and poet whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and other publications, and in numerous anthologies, including A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch." She is author of two volumes of poetry about the beauty and brutality of nature. She was born in Hollywood and grew up in Texas, where she lives on a ranch southwest of Fort Worth. Jones was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2016.
Review Quotes: In the long-awaited biography of Ben Johnson, rodeo champion and Oscar winner (still the only person to earn both), Jones captures the dynamic life of his career on and off the screen. Fans of Western films--and especially of the native Oklahoma cowboy--will want to have Johnson's biography in their library.--Stuart Rosebrook "True West"