Jun 22, 2026 | 8:57 am
A Fort Worth author’s scathing debut novel dissecting entitled heirs of the city’s oil tycoons and cattle barons — which was subsequently suppressed by the same wealthy society — is returning to the spotlight in 2026, more than 85 years after its initial publication.
The Inheritors by Philip Atlee will be formally published by Texas Christian University’s imprint TCU Press on September 15.
The novel is set in the mid-1930s, following two sons of the local elite class and members of Fort Worth’s River Crest Country Club. These individuals, George Jimble and Cavin Jarvis, are described as educated and well-groomed, yet are “utterly without purpose” and spend their days “drinking, grifting, and burning through their parents’ fortunes out of boredom and contempt.”…