S. C. Gwynne
WRITER
When New England native S. C. Gwynne moved to Texas nearly thirty years ago, he’d never anticipated the warm welcome he would receive. “They’ve always accepted me here,” says the Austin-based author and historian, who penned “The Heart of Texas” (p. 109) for this issue. “I don’t know if I’m technically a Texan yet, but I feel correspondent and editor has spent the last decade delving into the periods and populations that have altered modern history. The author of, a Pulitzer Prize finalist about the Comanche tribe’s influence on the American West, Gwynne has also written tomes on topics such as the Civil War’s final year and how football’s passing game came about. His next book,, out in May, recounts the little-known tragedy of a British airship crash in 1930.
