Phil Oakley is a novelist and award-winning veteran journalist with experience in the motion picture industry. He is a retired regional executive with The Walt Disney Company (ABC News), a former director of the Louisiana Film Commission, and a retired editor with the Dallas Morning News. He began work on his first novel in 1964 while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written nine novels.

Schedule

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Generational Dangers: Outlaws, Spies, and Texans Across the Decades
Jack Woodville London, Dangerous Latitudes: A Novel
Phil Oakley, Runners
with moderator Karen O’Connell

2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Runners

From the author of Little Hatchet, this gripping historical saga continues—a powerful story of resilience, family, and the price of ambition. 

Perfect for fans of epic generational tales and action-packed historical fiction.

Walter Oakley and his wife, Ada, used the westward expansion of America to establish themselves as model citizens in the town of Telegraph, Texas. Now, they watch in despair as their children lurch from one crisis to another — rum running, train-hopping outlaws, shattered dreams. With one child dead and another on the wrong side of the law, Walter and Ada struggle to keep their younger children on the straight and narrow. But trouble and temptation beckon as Prohibition and the Great Depression give way to the horrors of World War II. Will hope survive the chaos?