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Article: Novelist Was a Texas Fixture
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- The Washington Post
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- May 10, 2009
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Edwin "Bud" Shrake, 77, a Texas novelist, former Sports
Illustrated associate editor and co-author of one of the best-
selling books about golf, "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book," died of
lung cancer May 8 at St. David's Medical Center in Austin.
In the early 1990s, Texans who weren't golfers or readers of Mr.
Shrake's work may have known him as the tall, gray-haired "Prince
Philip" to their gregarious governor, Ann Richards. The divorced
governor and her escort, the self-proclaimed "first guy," were
longtime friends.
Mr. Shrake got his start in journalism in 1951 as the police
reporter for a scrappy tabloid called the Fort Worth Press. Gary
Cartwright, his longtime friend and ...