Preston Jones is remembered primarily for A Texas Trilogy (1976), which consists of three full-length plays representing life in a small town in Texas. The appeal of his work lies in its idiosyncratic language and characters, and in the distinctive mood and settings that Jones conjured from the memories of his youth in west Texas and New Mexico. The plays received individual productions at the Dallas Theatre Center in Dallas in 1973 and 1974; when the entire trilogy was produced in quick succession in 1976--first in the Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., then on Broadway--it received widespread acclaim, winning in 1977 the Outer Critics and Drama Desk awards and Cue magazine's Golden Apple Award. Although A Texas Trilogy was not a commercial success on Broadway, the way in which it traveled to the Northeast prompted one Washington critic to cite Jones as "a hero of the American...