Laurance L. Priddy - 1941
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Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, Texas
I. Upbringing and Professional Life
Laurance Priddy was born in Sweetwater, Texas, in 1941, and grew up in Gainesville and Forth Worth. He graduated from Arlington State College in 1963 and from the University of Texas School of Law in 1966. After spending two years in the army, he went into law practice in Fort Worth in 1967, where he has practiced ever since. He is now a shareholder in a small law firm. He lives west of Fort Worth, near Aledo. Priddy has been writing books about Texas and the southwest for the past ten years. Two of his works, Winning Passion (1994) and Son of Durango (1996) have been published by Sunstone Press. The same company will publish another work of his, Critical Evidence, in the fall of 2000.
His first work, Winning Passion , is about Bobby Thompson, a high school football coach in a small west Texas town, Comanche Springs. He confronts racism in the town when he elects to make a black student the starting quarterback. Thompson's wife leaves him after he falsely accuses her of cheating on him. The book follows his pitfalls over the course of his first season coaching high school football.
II. Works By Priddy
Winning Passion (1994)
Son of Durango (1996)
Critical Evidence (Scheduled to be released in 2000)
III. Works Cited
Priddy, L. Laurance. Winning Passion. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1994.
Priddy, Laurance L. The Laurance L. Priddy Homepage. 6 December 1999
http://www.flash.net/~priddy/index.htmThis essay was submitted by a student of Sheryl Row, a teacher at Jesuit College Preparatory of Dallas in Texas.