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Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas.Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research.
Texas Review Press is a university press affiliated with Sam Houston State University, located in Huntsville, Texas.The press, which was founded in 1979, publishes the Texas Review (a periodical specializing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction), as well as various scholarly books and monographs.
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Going back at least to the 1920s, Texans have been making literary lists of books about Texas. Here is a look at titles on some of those lists. Texas literary list-o-mania has been more than 90 ...
Year published: 1985 Genre: Western 'Derby Girl' by Shauna Cross. Bliss Cavendar is a blue-haired, indie-rock loving misfit stuck in Bodeen, Texas. Her pageant-addicted mother expects her to ...
History books about Texas (7 P) Books about Houston (1 C, 14 P) N. Novels set in Texas (5 C, 140 P) Pages in category "Books about Texas"
James A. Michener's Texas (also called Texas) is a 1994 ABC television miniseries directed by Richard Lang. It was adapted from the 1985 historical fiction novel Texas by James A. Michener , but includes only the section of the book related to Texas Independence and the Battle of San Jacinto .
[3] Chris Gray, in a review in The Houston Chronicle, only somewhat liked this novel. [4] In a story in The Dallas Morning News , author James Patterson talked about this book and why he wrote it. Patterson said, "I haven't written about the area too much, but I enjoyed doing this because it was different.