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A native west Texan, Max Crawford’s familiar country was the caprock around Blanco Canyon, Texas. A Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is perhaps most remembered for Lords of the Plains (1985). Communist, are set in California. A bon vivant and natural storyteller, Crawford published audaciously across many genres, writing poems, reviews, and satires with equal verve. You can read his correspondences, drafts, and see some of his photographs among his Papers, 1960-2000.