New York: Scribner, (1999). First edition - A memoir of his family and the small much-loved Texas town he grew up in - and returned to 70 years later - by this Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright. A town where everyone knew everyone else and more or less accepted their eccentricities. He doesn't gloss over the harsh realities of racial prejudice and segregation, but his tone is nonetheless elegiac. 285 pp.