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Américo Paredes (September 3, 1915 – May 5, 1999) was an American author born in Brownsville, Texas who authored several texts focusing on the border life that existed between the United States and Mexico, particularly around the Rio Grande region of South Texas. His family on his father’s side, however, had been in the Americas since 1580.
Jack Elliott Myers was poet laureate in 2003 Rosemary Catacalos was poet laureate in 2013 Cyrus Cassells was poet laureate in 2021. 1932-1934 - Judd Mortimer Lewis 1935 Pearle Moore Stevens - On April 8, 1935, the State of Texas honored her by declaring her "Poet Laureate of Texas" and declaring her book of poetry "The Shadows of Dawn" as Book Of The Year.
Joseph A. Altsheler wrote a trilogy of Texas fiction in his series The Texan Star (1912), The Texan Scouts (1913), and The Texan Triumph (1913). Noteworthy authors of the 1930s include Edward Anderson, whose novel Thieves Like Us (1937) has been filmed twice: [ 1 ] first in 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures as They Live by Night , later in 1974 MGM/UA ...
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James Frank Dobie was born on a ranch in Live Oak County, Texas, and was the eldest of six children. [1] [2] [3] When he was young, his father Richard read to him from the Bible and his mother Ella read to him from books such as Ivanhoe and Pilgrim's Progress.
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Sang Sinxay, the most famous epic poem of Laos, was written around mid sixteenth century. [6] Franciade (French) by Pierre de Ronsard (1540s–1572) Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões (c. 1572) [7] L'Amadigi by Bernardo Tasso (1560) La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1569–1589) La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1575)