Career
He has been noted as being the first Texas man of letters and was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie. His Early Times in Texas was initially published serially in 1867 in Burke"s Weekly (Macon, Georgia) and was finally published in book form in 1892. Another brother, Thomas Howard DuVal, was a distinguished Texas judge.
The men"s father, William Pope Duval, was a long-time Territorial Governor of Florida.