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Joe Holley was the editor of the Texas Observer in the early 1980s. A former staff writer at The Washington Post and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and columnist at the Houston Chronicle, he is the author of eight books, mostly about Texas.

Articles by Joe Holley

Ronnie Dugger, 1930-2025

The Observer's crusading founding editor—a prolific author and agitator who helped animate the spirit of a true Texas liberalism—has died at 95.

by Joe Holley

Stories from Deep in the Heart

A new collection of Joe Holley's Native Texan columns treats subjects ranging from an Austin serial killer to a prison known as "Burnin' Hell" to a battle of porcine proportions.

by Joe Holley