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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1969
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Book List in Order: 16 titles



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    Robert Flynn, professor emeritus, Trinity University and a native of Chillicothe, Texas, is the author of fourteen books. Nine novels: North To Yesterday; In the House of the Lord; The Sounds of Rescue, The Signs of Hope; Wanderer Springs, The Last K...



  • Robert Flynn has built a richly humorous, poignantly tragic novel around a cattle drive that forces cowboys to herd cattle on foot, to lower themselves to milk a wild longhorn, to tend a baby as well as a herd. At the center of the tale is Lampassas,...




  • Wanderer Springs is a dying town in Northwest Texas, one of that string of dusty towns left to wither away when the highway from Fort Worth to Amarillo bypassed them. For travelers on that highway, the harsh and unforgiving countryside passes as no m...



  • In 1950 Amarillo writer Loula Grace Erdman meticulously researched the lives of Texas Panhandle homesteaders in the 1800s for this novel about newlyweds Bethany and Wade Cameron, who struggle to farm land in the midst of cattle country. Their challen...



  • Robert Flynn's second novel tracks a day in the life of Pat Shahan, minister of a Protestant church in a large city. Young, devout, and honest, Shahan seeks revelation--and is offered a revolving neon cross for the church steeple; he seeks vision--an...




  • Hyenas are scavengers and predators. They prey on the weak and the helpless and even their fellow predators, the lions. Like lions, the people in Robert Flynn’s stories learn to make accommodations to the hyenas and to a society that tolerates them...



  • The tangled relationships of Robert Flynn’s award- winning novel Wanderer Springs surface again in Tie- Fast Country, this time centered around an elderly ranch woman, whose father raised her to be a cowboy, and her grandson, who doesn’t know her...






  • Robert Flynn's new novel, Echoes of Glory centers on a fictitious Texas county that embraces its legends, but not its actual history. Set in the Reagan era, the novel exposes shared myths as lies and the truth, lacking all comfort. In his inimitable ...



  • From the author of Echoes of Glory, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best long novel, comes the tale of Jade, a rough man of the old West, molded by a tragic past, an Indian hunter who finds himself falling for a woman raised b...



  • From the author of Echoes of Glory, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best long novel, comes the tale of Jade, a rough man of the old West, molded by a tragic past, an Indian hunter who finds himself falling for a woman raised b...



  • Lucky McGuire is a spirited Navy jet with big dreams. Lucky loves to fly and be with his friends. Lucky dreams of becoming a Blue Angel but does not know where his next adventure will take him. Will it be flying in the skies with his buddies or will ...



  • In this sequel to Jade: Outlaw, Jade, a rough man of the old West, molded by a tragic past, has fallen for Rain, a woman raised by Indians, a symbol of all that he hates and all that he is.Now these two outcasts, struggling to build their own relatio...



  • Will is a determined young goat who wishes he could go to school at the United States Naval Academy. One day, he makes up his mind to achieve his goal. He escapes from his farm by hitching a ride on the daily milk truck bound for Annapolis. Find out ...



  • Judah's Promise was written to provide comfort. It shares a message with youngsters that the emotions of sadness and mourning are normal, and it s okay to believe that even in death our pets are still with us....


Award-Winning Books by Robert Flynn

Echoes of Glory
2010 Spur Award -- Long Novel
Wanderer Springs
1987 SPUR Award -- Historical Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Flynn has published 16 books.

Robert Flynn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Judah's Promise, was published in August 2017.

The first book by Robert Flynn, Burying the Farm, was published in January 1969.

No. Robert Flynn does not write books in series.