![]() ![]() Marine Corps and completed Marine Officer Candidates School. During World War II Graves enlisted in the U. Military service occupied the time between his educational endeavors. After high school he moved to Houston, where he attended Rice Institute (now Rice University). These two places of his childhood greatly influenced his literary career by giving him a sense of history and regional identity. However, he frequently spent time at his paternal grandparents' home in the small South Texas town of Cuero. Graves spent his first eighteen years in Fort Worth. His lifelong religious affiliation was Episcopalian. ![]() He had one sibling, a younger sister, Nancy Ann (Graves) Wynne, who was the head librarian at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth for twenty-three years. ![]() John Graves, legendary Texas writer, professor, son of John Alexander Graves, Jr., and Nancy Mary (Kay) Graves, was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on August 6, 1920. ![]()
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