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Joe Nick Patoski
Joe Nick Patoski has written about Texas and Texans over the course of ten books, including his most recent title Austin to ATX: The Hippies Pickers Slackers and Geeks Who Transformed The Capital of Texas. A former staff writer for Texas Monthly for 18 years, he lives in the Texas Hill Country near Wimberley.