MAVIS PARROTT KELSEY, SR. is founder and former chief of the renowned Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston. A graduate and distinguished alumnus of both Texas A&M University and the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston, he is the author of numerous books on genealogy, history, medicine and art, including The Courthouses of Texas and Twentieth-Century Doctor: House Calls to Space Medicine, His book Engraved Prints of Texas, 1554-1900 received the Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit. He lives in Houston.