Wimberley, Texas

Somewhere between his first sip out of a "colored" water fountain and his first James Brown concert at the age of 14, Joe Nick Patoski discovered how culture brought races together while laws attempted to keep them apart. That realization has informed his writings over four decades. The author of biographies on blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and the slain Tejano superstar Selena, and a staff writer for Texas Monthly magazine for 18 years, he also has contributed articles to Time Out New York, Spin, Rolling Stone, No Depression, and American Heritage, among other publications. He has contributed weekly commentaries on KGSR-FM in Austin since 1994 and was one of four Texas Monthly writers named as finalists for a National Magazine Award in 1997. He was a contributor to My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience (May 2004, Sterling), published as part of the Voices of Civil Rights project.

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