Bill Minutaglio Accessions

Award-winning writer Bill Minutaglio has written for many publications, authored several books, and been inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. He is frequently featured on TV, on radio, and in print interviews in national publications. He began donating his writing archives are to the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections in 2007.

Minutaglio's books include: First Son: George W. Bush & The Bush Family Dynasty, 1999 (reissued in a new, expanded edition in 2001), City on Fire: The Explosion That Devastated A Texas Town and Ignited A Historic Legal Battle, 2003, The President's Counselor: The Rise To Power of Alberto Gonzales, 2006 (published in a Spanish-language edition as El Asesor del Presidente.) City on Fire is "one of the finest books ever written about Texas," according to The Texas Observer. Esquire magazine named it, along with works by Ernest Hemingway and others, among the greatest tales of survival ever written. Minutaglio is also the author of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life (2009), In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas and Dallas 1963 coauthored with Steve Davis.

He is a Clinical Professor in the Journalism Department at the University of Texas at Austin.