Bud Shrake started working at TheFort Worth Press in 1951, when newspapers ruled -- especially what is called the sports world. The Press has long since gone, unmourned. Ah, but when Shrake worked ...

Bud Shrake's ability to capture Harvey Penick's voice was instrumental in their book's success. When I talked with Bud Shrake in 2006, 14 years after the publication of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book ...

I first visited Austin during the summer of 1975, when I was nineteen. Thirteen years earlier, the novelist Billy Lee Brammer had described the city as possessing “room enough to caper.” I remember ...

Edwin "Bud" Shrake, the Fort Worth native and former Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News sportswriter, died this morning in Austin at the age of 77. He wrote a lot of essential books, ...

Edwin “Bud” Shrake, an author and journalist who co-wrote the bestselling golf book “Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book,” died Friday. He was 77. He died of lung cancer at a hospital in Austin, Texas, ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the May 9, 2009, edition of The Dallas Morning News. AUSTIN - Fort Worth native Edwin "Bud" Shrake, one of the state's most revered writers, died ...

Edwin “Bud” Shrake, an author and journalist who co-wrote the bestselling golf book “Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book,” died Friday. He was 77. He died of lung cancer at a hospital in Austin, Texas, ...