The Texiad: An Epic of the Texas Revolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781477494769)

Arthur Wayne Glowka (born in Weimar, Texas, in 1952) grew up in San Antonio, Texas, in the shadow of the Alamo, and heard heroic tales about its fall from an early age. The Irish nuns who ran his elementary school directed him to books about King Arthur and Robin Hood, and his study of Spanish in high school has led to a lifelong fascination with Latin America and Spain. He studied English at the University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1973; M.A., 1975) and fell in love with medieval literature and medieval languages. Before pursuing his doctorate in English at the University of Delaware (English, 1980), he spent two years away from formal study to fish in the Brandywine River of southeastern Pennsylvania and to plunder the local public and university libraries for books on a wide variety of subjects. From 1980 until 2007, he taught English at Georgia College & State University. He is presently Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Reinhardt University. His scholarly publications have focused on the legendary history of Britain, Geoffrey Chaucer, and new words.