Some Part of Myself

A relaxed, satisfying memoir by a master storyteller. It reveals the admirable human spirit of a man who has become as much a legend as those about whom he wrote. When Frank Dobie died in September of 1964 he left, along with a wealth of Southwestern folklore (among them the classics Coronado's Children, The Mustangs and Cow People), a collection of autobiographical pieces which he hoped, some day, to turn into a full-length autobiography. Now, three years after this beloved storyteller's death, his wife Bertha has gathered and edited his autobiographical pieces. The result is a compelling self-portrait of Frank Dobie as his friends knew him, and as his admirers wish to know him. Some Part of Myself covers the period from Frank Dobie's birth on a ranch in Live Oak County, south Texas, in 1888, to the thirties, when as a professor at the University of Texas he had established himself as an authority on the life and literature of the Southwest -- Book jacket.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.