Baja Oklahoma

Dan Jenkins

Pocket Books, 1982 - Fiction - 272 pages

Juanita Hutchins, a barmaid in 1950s Ft. Worth, Texas by day, is a country western songwriter and singer by night. Her big chance to Nashville stardom may be her song Baja Oklahoma.

Contents

• PROLOGUE: 1
• PART: 117
• EPILOGUE: 263

About the author

Dan Thomas Jenkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas on December 2, 1928. He graduated from Texas Christian University. In the mid-1950s, he became a writer and editor at The Fort Worth Press. He was promoted to sports editor before joining Sports Illustrated in 1962, where his main beats were golf and college football. His first novel, Semi-Tough, was published in 1972 and adapted into a movie in 1978. His other novels included Dead Solid Perfect, Baja Oklahoma, You Gotta Play Hurt, and Limo written with Bud Shrake. His memoir, His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir, was published in 2014. He later wrote for Playboy and was a senior writer for Golf Digest. He died on March 7, 2019 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Baja Oklahoma; Volume 45163 of Pocket books
• Author: Dan Jenkins
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Pocket Books, 1982
• ISBN: 0671451634, 9780671451639
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Humorous / General; Fiction / Performing Arts / Music; Fiction / Southern