Sunday, November 2
2-3pm
House Chamber
Texas State Capitol

Each Festival honors a Texas author with its Bookend Award in recognition of a lifetime of contributions to Texas literature. The 2008 recipient is Robert Caro, the longtime LBJ biographer. Former honorees include Sandra Cisneros, Mary Margaret Farabee, Dagoberto Gilb, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Larry L. King, Walt McDonald, T. R. Fehrenbach, Horton Foote, William H. Goetzmann, John Graves, A. C. Greene, Shelby Hearon, Elmer Kelton, Stanley Marcus, Cormac McCarthy, Américo Paredes, Louis Sachar, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Texas Monthly magazine (publisher Mike Levy; editors William Broyles, Gregory Curtis, and Evan Smith), and Bill Wittliff.