His raunchy, boundary-pushing first novel rattled the pearls in the stately, manicured homes around River Crest Country Club in Fort Worth.
Now, 34 years after James Atlee Phillips’ death, Fort Worthians can learn a little more about the man whose book created that tempest in the delicate porcelain teapots of Cowtown society in the 1940s.
TCU Press has published the author’s autobiography, “No Fixed Abode,” and plans to reprint Phillips’ first novel, “The Inheritors,” which was originally published by Dial Press in 1940 under the pseudonym Philip Atlee in the fall of 2026…