James Presley

James Presley has written nine previous books, including Center of the Storm: Memoirs of John T. Scopes, a collaboration with the Tennessee Evolution Trial defendant that was nominated for the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians; A Saga of Wealth: The Rise of the Texas Oilmen, anominee for the Pulitzer Prize in History; and The Phantom Killer, about a notorious Texas serial murder. A former newspaperman, Presley earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published numerous articles in academic and popular publications. He received the John H. McGinnis Memorial Award for "America's Black Novelists and the Nobel Prize," published in Southwest Review, and an Anson Jones Award from the Texas Medical Association for a series of articles on cancer.