On Thursday evening, Dec. 7th, the Library welcomed Author, Bob Bowman and his wife Doris for an historic evening of East Texas Murders.  Click here for pictures of the event.

Bob and Doris Bowman have acquired a reputation as “the murder historians of East Texas.”  And with good reason.

      In five years, they have written four books about East Texas murders, beginning with the Mystery of Lady Bountiful in 2002, a story about Lillian Marshall Knox, a wealthy timber baroness implicated in three murders in the 1920s.

They followed this award-winning book with a second book, Historic Murders of East Texas, containing 20 principal murders, a third book, More Historic Murders of East Texas, with 22 additional murders, and, more recently, Historic Murders of East Texas, Book 3, with 18 more murders.

With Doris as his chief researcher, Bob has written 30 other books about East Texas history and folklore, touching on such subjects as home remedies, good ol’ boy expressions, the forest products industry, railroads, river, Sunday drives, and much more.

 Bob also writes a history column for about 70 East Texas newspapers and is the great-great-great grandson of an Alamo defender.

He is a member of the Texas Historical Commission, past chair of the Texas Committee for the Humanities, past president of the East Texas Historical Association, and a past member of both the Texas Sesquicentennial Commission and the Texas Capitol Centennial Commission.

He and Doris also own a Lufkin public relations and marketing company and operate a private foundation, the Pineywoods Foundation.