Author: Evelyn Oppenheimer

About this Author

Born in Dallas, where she graduated from Forest Avenue High School, EVELYN OPPENHEIMER attended the University of Chicago. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa she returned to Dallas. A literary agent for thirty-five years, she also taught book reviewing at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University, SMU, University of Dallas, UCLA, University of Wisconsin extension. UNT Press has endowed a series in her name.

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Works Published by UNT Press

A Book Lover in Texas

Published: April, 1995 Pages: 176 Features: 15 b&w photos. Index. Open Access

A Book Lover in Texas is now available as a free e-book at the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History. more... about A Book Lover in Texas

Gilbert Onderdonk: The Nurseryman of Mission Valley, Pioneer Horticulturist

Published: September, 1991 Pages: 200 Features: 16 b&w illus. Bib. Index.

Gilbert Onderdonk traveled to Texas in 1851 as a twenty-two-year-old invalid in search of health. By the time of his death in 1920 at the robust age of ninety-one, he had been a pioneer botanist and horticulturist, a rancher, a Confederate soldier, a traveler throughout Mexico for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a prolific letter writer and essayist, a travel writer for newspapers, and a man of family, property, international recognition, and fame among horticultural experts in Europe for his work in South Texas. more... about Gilbert Onderdonk: The Nurseryman of Mission Valley, Pioneer Horticulturist

San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1991