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{"id":2970,"date":"2022-12-17T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T10:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:06:10","slug":"lone-star-remembers-dr-michael-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=2970&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Remembers: Dr. Michael Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

A remembrance of Dr. Michael Adams<\/p>\n

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photo by Rino Pizzi<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Michael Wayne Adams, a writer and painter who directed the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program for the University of Texas at Austin from 2007 to 2022, died November 28, 2022, in Austin. He was 76 years old. Survivors include his wife, Dorothea Adams. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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His life and works will be celebrated at a special gathering Feb. 19, 2023, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., in the University of Texas Alumni Center\u2019s Legends Room. More information is available here<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A native of Killeen, Dr. Adams received his bachelor\u2019s degree from Texas Tech and his master\u2019s degree and Ph.D. from UT-Austin. His writings include two novels, Blind Man\u2019s Bluff<\/em> and Anniversaries in the Blood<\/em>, plus a college textbook, The Writer\u2019s Mind: Making Writing Make Sense<\/em>, as well as numerous short stories and essays. As an artist, Dr. Adams showed a special passion for light, color, and Austin\u2019s music and honky-tonk scene. His first art exhibit was commissioned for the 1979 Governor\u2019s Inaugural Ball, where several paintings from his \u201cNeon Cowboy\u201d collection were displayed. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program provides writer-in-residence grants that enable selected candidates to live and work for several months at the historic and secluded J. Frank Dobie Ranch 14 miles southwest of Austin. When Dr. Adams became the program\u2019s director in 2007, he also took on the roles of \u201ccaretaker and fundraiser\u201d for the historic but deteriorating ranch, according to a 2013 Austin Chronicle article. The ranch had been donated to UT-Austin as a writer-in-residence site after the death of its owner, J. Frank Dobie, a famed author and folklorist who wrote extensively about Texas and the Southwest. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Along with overseeing the fellowship\u2019s recipients, Dr. Adams raised critically needed restoration funding that included \u201cgenerous support\u201d from Texas Book Festival co-founder Mary Margaret Farabee, the Chronicle noted. He is also credited with increasing the sizes of the Dobie Fellowship grants and creating separate grants for early-career writers and authors who are more established. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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An in-memoriam statement from the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program noted that Dr. Adams was a former English professor and Associate Director of the Michener Center for Writers at UT-Austin. He received numerous awards and honors during his academic and creative careers, including \u201ca Fulbright Award, the Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award, and election to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and the Texas Institute of Letters. Those who knew him inevitably admired his vast trove of knowledge, his gentlemanly kindness, and his willingness to give freely of himself for the benefit of students and colleagues.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was very well loved and respected within the Texas literary community,\u201d says Austin short-story writer and novelist Brian Van Reet, a Michener Center graduate and Dobie Paisano Fellowship recipient. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"