Steven L. Davis is the literary curator of the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos. His books include J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind, Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond, and (as coauthor) Dallas 1963, which won the 2014 PEN USA Award for Research Nonfiction. He is a past president of the Texas Institute of Letters.