🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Citizen Carl, Jack McElroy’s compelling biography of educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster Carl Magee, has been named a 2025 Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Biography by Western Writers of America! Carl Magee played a vital role in shaping both New Mexico and Oklahoma in the years following statehood, earning national recognition along the way. Jack McElroy's fascinating biography of "Citizen Carl" tells the story of a man whose exploits were as diverse and complex as the American Southwest he loved. Since 1953, the Spur Awards have celebrated excellence in Western fiction, nonfiction, poetry, music, and film. Congratulations to Jack McElroy on this well-deserved honor! Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter is published by the University of New Mexico Press

🎉 Citizen Carl, Jack McElroy’s compelling biography of educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster Carl Magee, has been named a 2025 Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Biography by Western Writers of America!

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