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Among Lasswell's other books were Mrs. Rasmussen's Book of One-Arm Cookery (1946), I'll Take Texas (1958), and Tio Pepe (1968). Lasswell was also an editorial writer for the Houston Chronicle in the 1960s. Lasswell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, of American parents on February 8, 1905, and grew up in Brownsville, Texas. She was married to Dr ...
Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly.Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.
In July 2011, she wrote an article for Forbes Woman about new options available to authors with the advent of eBooks and independent publishing. [ 11 ] Her first foray into historical fiction, released in September 2023, was Angel Falls , inspired by the life of Ruth Robertson , a photojournalist whose 1949 expedition successfully measured ...
H. Helen Hadsell; Paul Hagen (sportswriter) Larry Hagman; Homer Hailey; Leon Hale; Harry H. Halsell; Ralph Hanna; Stephen L. Hardin; Mark Harelik; Charlaine Harris
During one of Landow's lectures in 1993, Jackson began drawing "a naked woman with dotted-line scars" in her notebook, an image she eventually expanded into her first hypertext novel, Patchwork Girl. [5] Jackson later said that she never considered publishing Patchwork Girl as a print novel, explaining,
After the 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D–Pa.) was one of many legislators who reupped Democratic demands for new gun restrictions.
Quoting the book itself, Kirkus Reviews opined that The Yellow House reflected the author's attempt "to reckon with 'the psychic cost of defining oneself by the place where you are from,'" adding that "Broom's lyrical style celebrates her family bonds, but a righteous fury runs throughout the narrative at New Orleans' injustices, from the ...
The first English book which was solely about Texas was Texas (1833) by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin. It was expanded in 1836 and retitled History of Texas. [1] A later author in this period, John Crittenden Duval, was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.