Jerry Bryan Lincecum is Emeritus Professor of English at Austin College

Austin College

Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated by covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church and located in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles North of Dallas....

 in Sherman, Texas

Sherman, Texas

Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 38,407. It is also one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

. He is a folklorist and specialist in Texas and Southwestern literature.

He has served as President of the Texas Folklore Society

Texas Folklore Society

The Texas Folklore Society is a non-profit organization formed in 1909. John Avery Lomax and Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr., conceived the idea for the Society and served as its first officers....

, been awarded the Silver Certificate of Merit by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas

Daughters of the Republic of Texas

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas is a sororal association dedicated to perpetuating the memory of Texas pioneer families and soldiers of the Republic of Texas. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas is best known for its role as caretakers of The Alamo. They also operate a museum in Austin...

, and the Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award for Outstanding Research on Texas History. His book on the pioneer naturalist Gideon Lincecum

Gideon Lincecum

Gideon Lincecum was an American pioneer, historian, physician, philosopher, and naturalist. Lincecum is known for his exploration and settlement of what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies...

, Science on the Texas Frontier: Observations of Dr. Gideon Lincecum has been reviewed by several academic journals both in history and in the sciences, as have some of his other books.

He is the director and founder of the Telling Our Stories Project in Autobiography, which has attracted international attention to Austin College. This is a program that encourages senior citizens to write their autobiographies.

Books

• Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist: The Life and Times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum (1994)
• Telling Our Stories, Vol. 1: Grayson County Reminiscences (1996)
• Science on the Texas Frontier: Observations of Dr. Gideon Lincecum (1997)
  • Review, Journal of American History, Mar., 1999, vol. 85, no. 4, p. 1610-1611
  • Journal of Southern History, May, 1999, vol. 65, no. 2, p. 404-405
  • Review, The Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn, 1998, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 412-413
  • Review, Environmental History, Jan., 1996, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 116-118
  • Review, Isis, Sep., 1998, vol. 89, no. 3, p. 557
  • Review, Taxon, Nov., 1996, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 726
• Telling Our Stories, Vol. 2: Texas Family Secrets (1997)
• Telling Our Stories, Vol. 3: Texas Millennium Book (1999)
• Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Homefront (2001)
  • Review, Journal of Southern History, Nov., 2002, vol. 68, no. 4, p. 975-976
• The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends (2003)
• Telling Our Stories, Vol. 4: More Texas Family Secrets (2003)
• Telling Our Stories, Vol. 5: Remembering School Days (2005)
• editor, The Life and Times of Grayson County, Texas (2006)