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Swing and Turn: Texas Play-Party Games (Dallas: Tardy Publishing Company, 1936)
Texas Folk Songs (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1950).
Slave Mutiny: The Revolt of the Schooner Amistad (New York: John Day Company, 1953).
Paperback edition published under the title Black Mutiny (Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1968).
Walking on Borrowed Land, a novel (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1954).
Fever in the Earth, a novel (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1958).
Pocantico Hills: 1909-1959 (Tarrytown, New York: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1960).
Look to the River, a novel (New York: Atheneum, 1963).
This Stubborn Soil (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966).
Three friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969.
A Season of Weathering. New York: Scribner, 1973.
A Fair and Happy Land. New York: Scribner, 1975.
Fever in the Earth. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958.
Articles, Stories and Reviews by William A. Owens
"The Play-Party in Texas," Southwest Review, XVIII (Winter, 1932), 1969-78. Reprinted in
America Remembers, edited by Samuel Rapport and Patricia Schartle (Garden City, New York: Hanover House, 1956), pp. 632-40.
"The Play Party," Contemporary Arts in the South and Southwest, I (Novemeber-December, 1932), 12, 16.
"Will the Huks Revolt?" Asia and the Americas, XLVI (February, 1946), 52-57.
"A Free Philippines?" Asia and the Americas, XLVI (July, 1946), 294-98.
"Barrio Fiesta," Asia and the Americas, XLVI (December, 1946), 542.
"Hangerman John" (short story), Epoch, I (Summer, 1948), 15-21.
"Twytha and the Child Evangelist" (short story), Epoch, I (Summer, 1948), 15-21.
"Folly Folks: Our Modern Troubadours," Tomorrow Magazine, VIII (April, 1949), 35-40.
"Somebody Touched Me" (short story), New-Story, XI (March, 1952), 99-104.
"The Arms of God" (short story), New-Story, XI (March, 1952), 71-82.
"In Thine Own Blood" (short story), Southwest Review, XXXIX (Spring, 1954), 121-30.
"Asphalt Folklore" (review of Sidewalks of America by Ben A. Botkin), XXXVIII (January 1, 1955), 14.
"Folksy Stew" (review of Recollection Creek by Fred Gipson), Saturday Review, XXXVIII (February 12, 1955), 19-20.
"They Sang the Moon Up" (review of Singing Family of the Cumberlands by Jean Ritchie), New
York Times Book Review, February 20, 1955, p. 12.
"Writing a Novel- Problem and Solution," Southwest Review, XL (Summer, 1955), 254-61. Reprinted
in Writers' Roundtable, edited by Helen Hull and Michael Drury (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959) pp. 35-49.
"A New Admirable Attitude" (review of Standard Oil Company by Paul H. Giddens and of
Pioneering in Big Business by Charles and Muriel Hidy), American Petroleum Institute Quarterly,
XXVI (Spring, 1956), 41-42.
"Boom in Batson: The Birth of an Oil Field," American Petroleum Institute Quarterly, XXVII
(Spring, 1957), 18-23.
"Trailing the Devil in Louisiana," Southwest Review, XLII (Spring, 1957), 144-48.
"Introduction to The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi by Joseph G. Baldwin (New York:
Sagamore Press, 1957), pp. v-ix.
Introduction to Native Son by Richard Wright (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957), pp. vii-xii.
"Seer of Corsicana," Southwest Review, XLIII (Spring, 1958), 124-34. Reprinted in Best Articles and
Stories, III (April, 1959), 36-41, and in And Horns on the Toads, edited by Mody C. Boatright,
Wilson M. Hudson, and Allen Maxwell (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1959), pp. 14-31.
"Gusher at Spindletop," American Petroleum Institute Quarterly, IX (Spring, 1958), 34-39, 105.
"He Kept the Peace in Sour Lake," American Petroleum Institute Quarterly, XXIX (Spring, 1959), 40-45.
"'I Drilled the Lucas Gusher,'" Du Pont Magazine, LIII (April-May, 1959), 16-19.
"On Top of Tallman Mountain," The Texas Observer, LI (June 27, 1959), 4. Reprinted in Three Men in
Texas, edited by Ronnie Dugger (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967), pp. 35-36.
"First Teakettle in Texas," Du Pont Magazine, LIII (October-November, 1959), 10-12.
"Tankers to Texas," Du Pont Magazine, LIII (October-November, 1959), 16-18.
"Oil Diviners of the Past," Du Pont Magazine, LIII (October-November, 1959), 24-27.
"Opportunity Rode a Yellow Bus," Petroleum Today, II (Fall, 1960), 12-14.
"Big Thicket Balladry," Tales from the Big Thicket, edited by Francis E. Abernethy (Austin:
University of Texas, Press, 1966), pp. 199-214.
"We Had Some Christmas!" (excerpt from This Stubborn Soil), Ladies Home Journal, LXXXIII
(December, 1966), 100-101, 131-33.
"An American Legend" (with Mody C. Boatright), Petroleum Today, VIII (Summer, 1967), 20-24.
"My Father and Then My Mother: Roy Bedichek," Southwest Review, LII (Autumn, 1967), 324-42.
"The Writer and His Region," public lecture at East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, November 9, 1967.
Secondary Sources
Bedichek, Roy, "Tension of Jim Crow" (review of Walking on Borrowed Land), Southwest
Review, XL (Winter, 1955), 84-86.
Boatright, Mody C., "Hard Times and Good in Old Pin Hook" (review of This Stubborn Soil),
South West Review, LII (Winter, 1967), 99-101.
Dobie, J. Frank, "What It Felt Like to Be There" (review of Fever in the Earth), American
Petroleum Institute Quarterly, XXXVIII (Spring, 1958), 42-43.
Lee, James W. ed. William A. Owens: A Symposium. Denton, TX: Trilobite Press, 1981. (Texas
Committee for the Humanitites.)
Pilkington, William T., "Williams A. Owens."
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