100 Cardinal Dr, Athens, TX 75751, USA
Donley Watt attended Henderson County Junior College for one year.
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Donley Watt received from the University of Texas at Austin his Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Master of Arts in History.in 1970.
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Donley Watt received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1990.
100 Cardinal Dr, Athens, TX 75751, USA
Donley Watt attended Henderson County Junior College for one year.
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Donley Watt received from the University of Texas at Austin his Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Master of Arts in History.in 1970.
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Donley Watt received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1990.
(Donley Watt’s first novel is a spare and strong story of ...)
Donley Watt’s first novel is a spare and strong story of what it means to remain proud and honorable in the midst if oppression and hopelessness. Tragic in events, "The Journey of Hector Rabinal" affirms the strength of the human spirit.
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1994
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1994
("Haley, Texas 1959" is about that place and time. It cont...)
"Haley, Texas 1959" is about that place and time. It contains two novellas: imaginative shapings and interweavings of events, both invented and actual, that occurred when Donley Watt was growing up.
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1999
(Donley Watt captures small-town East Texas, its attitudes...)
Donley Watt captures small-town East Texas, its attitudes and habits and language, with a masterful sense of place. His rednecks are as real as his Dallas lady and his Austin vegetarian. Reynolds and his family draw you into their story until you can’t leave and you'll find yourself turning pages rapidly at the end, desperate to know what happens to them. And whether Reynolds will ever truly be happy with his life.
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2002
(A novel of ambitions and desires thwarted in a small Texa...)
A novel of ambitions and desires thwarted in a small Texas town, "Dancing with Lyndon" brings the early 1950s to life.
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2004
Donley Watt was born on May 24, 1940 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States. His parents were D. E. Watt, a landman in the oil business, and Georgianne (Baxter) Watt.
Donley Watt arrived in Athens in East Texas at the age of five.
Donley Watt graduated from Athens High School. He later attended Henderson County Junior College for one year, then moved on to the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Master of Arts in History in 1970.
Watt also completed all work toward his Ph.D. in educational administration except for his dissertation. However, in 1990 he received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arizona.
Donley Watt helped found Austin Community College in 1973 and was its dean until 1977.
From 1978 to 1985, Watt has also been a land man in the oil business, owned an herb farm, and owned a contemporary art gallery.
In 1987, Watt decided to go back to school to achieve his childhood dream and become a writer. In the early 1990’s, Donley Watt lived, traveled, and researched in Mexico and Guatemala. For six years, Watt was the writer in residence at the Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He has also taught at Northern Arizona University since 1994 and at the University of Arizona.
Donley Watt is the former vice-president of The Texas Institute of Writers.
His first book "Can You Get There From Here?", a collection of short stories, was published in September 1994. "Haley, Texas 1959" and 2 novellas followed in 1999. Watt then published Reynolds in 2002 and Dancing with Lyndon in 2004. He has also published numerous essays and reviews.
Currently, Watt is the fiction writing editor and a consultant for Gemini Ink in San Antonio.
Donley Watt is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Johnnie Ray Harper Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Arizona in 1989, the Roberts Writing Award in 1990, and Betty Greene Prize.
Moreover, his collection of short stories "Can You Get There From Here?" won the Texas Institute of Letters’ Stephen F. Turner Award for best first work of fiction.
(Donley Watt’s first novel is a spare and strong story of ...)
1994(A novel of ambitions and desires thwarted in a small Texa...)
2004(Donley Watt captures small-town East Texas, its attitudes...)
2002("Haley, Texas 1959" is about that place and time. It cont...)
1999Donley Watt married Lynn McFadden, an artist, on May 2, 1978.
