Mexican artist Juan O'Gorman and the mural he created for the 1968 World's Fair in San Antonio, Texas
Catherine Nixon Cooke is the award-winning author of seven biographies, including Juan O’Gorman: A Confluence of Civilizations, The Thistle and the Rose: Railroads, Romance, and Big Oil in Revolutionary Mexico, and In Search of Tom Slick: Explorer and Visionary, which was produced as the podcast "Tom Slick Mystery Hunter" in 2024. A fellow and medalist of the Explorers Club, she lives on a farm in the Texas Hill Country.