Joe Holley

Joe Holley is a native Texan who has been the editor of the Texas Observer, an editorial page editor and columnist in San Antonio and San Diego and a frequent contributor to Texas Monthly, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. He also wrote speeches for former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and, with his wife, Tara Elgin Holley, is co-author of My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia (William Morrow, 1997). At the moment he's working on a biography of Slingin' Sammy Baugh. Now that the statute of limitations has passed, he also can reveal that he was once a ghostwriter of Hardy Boys mysteries.