He went back to Fort Worth in early 1957 to be near his father, who was dying of cancer. He taught for two years at the University of Texas, then took time off to travel and explore the world. After the war, he received a master’s degree in English from Columbia University in 1947.
He was a first lieutenant in the Pacific during World War II and was injured by a grenade on Saipan, losing the sight in one eye. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from Rice University in Houston in 1942 and entered the Marine Corps. “He loves the obscure, indeterminate nature of rural legend and likes nothing better than to retell stories the full truth of which can never be known.” “He is popularly thought to be a kind of country explainer, when in fact he seems more interested in increasing our store of mysteries than our store of knowledge,” McMurtry wrote. Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote “Lonesome Dove” and “Terms of Endearment,” lauded Graves’ talents in a 1981 essay for the Texas Observer.
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