Phil Oakley is a novelist and veteran journalist with experience in the motion picture industry. He is a retired regional executive with The Walt Disney Company (ABC News), a former director of the Louisiana Film Commission and a retired editor with the Dallas Morning News. He covered presidents and presidential campaigns beginning with.... more
Phil Oakley is a novelist and veteran journalist with experience in the motion picture industry. He is a retired regional executive with The Walt Disney Company (ABC News), a former director of the Louisiana Film Commission and a retired editor with the Dallas Morning News. He covered presidents and presidential campaigns beginning with Lyndon Johnson and ending with George W. Bush. He was a television and radio anchor and reporter with national awards from Columbia University, the Radio-Television News Directors Association and the National Headliner Award program in Atlantic City. He began work on his first novel in 1964 while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. In all he has written seven novels. He lives in San Diego with his wife of 43 years, the former Nancy Matens of Baton Rouge. They have two sons and one granddaughter. Phil was born in Austin in the final month of World War II.
Phil Oakley's Projects
Longhorn: A Novel (The Oakleys) (Volume 3)
The youngest Oakley brother, Ray, avoids the Army only to find himself in a face off with German U-b... more
Runners (The Oakleys) (Volume 2)
My father, beginning at age fourteen, rode freight trains through America during much of the Great D... more
San Juan Bautista
Three revolutions, three lives devastated and a monastery in the American Southwest come together in... more
Telegraph
Telegraph is the story of an amazing American family who set roots in the frontier, first in New Mex... more