Texans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. The old-timers at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal who worked there from the mid-1950s until the early 1970s all had their favorite Jack Sheridan stories. Although Sheridan was a writer, the stories were about him, not by him, and they always featured him inebriated, saying or doing something outrageous. Who was Jack Sheridan? His mythology follows in the unsteady footsteps of Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dylan Thomas, and Texas’s own Billy Lee Brammer: writers of immense talent who couldn’t stay out of their own way. A once renowned novelist, Sheridan worked at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (otherwise known as the A-J) from 1955 through 1972, as a critic, a columnist, and the paper’s first…
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