Jerry B. Lincecum

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Jerry Bryan Lincecum (b. 1942) is Emeritus Professor of English at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He is a folklorist and specialist in Texas and Southwestern literature.

He has served as President of the Texas Folklore Society, been awarded the Silver Certificate of Merit by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award for Outstanding Research on Texas History.

He is the director and founder of the Telling Our Stories Project in Autobiography, which has attracted international attention to Austin College. This is a program that encourages senior citizens to write their autobiographies.

[edit] Books

  • Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist: The Life and Times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum (1994)
  • Telling Our Stories, Vol. 1: Grayson County Reminiscences (1996)
  • Science on the Texas Frontier: Observations of Dr. Gideon Lincecum (1997)
  • Telling Our Stories, Vol. 2: Texas Family Secrets (1997)
  • Telling Our Stories, Vol. 3: Texas Millennium Book (1999)
  • Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Homefront (2001)
  • The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends (2003)
  • Telling Our Stories, Vol. 4: More Texas Family Secrets (2003)
  • Telling Our Stories, Vol. 5: Remembering School Days (2005)
  • editor, The Life and Times of Grayson County, Texas (2006)
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