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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 ...
Year published: 1998 Genre: Coming-of-age 'The Killer Inside Me' by Jim Thompson. Lou Ford, the deputy sheriff of Central City, Texas, is loved by everyone and is known as the nicest guy in town.
Terms of Endearment (novel) Texas (novel) Texas Fever (novel) The Texas-Israeli War: 1999; Texasville (novel) That Old Ace in the Hole; The Evening Star (novel) The Late Child; The Thicket (novel) This Is My America; Tideland; Track of the Cat (novel) The Transgressors; The Twelve (novel) The Two-Bear Mambo
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.
The story behind the novel is as famous as the novel itself. It was Toole's first published novel, published 11 years after his death after being championed by his mother and the writer Walker Percy.
He reflected on his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove, in Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009), writing that it was the "Gone With the Wind of the West … a pretty good book; it's not a towering masterpiece." [17] McMurtry described his method for writing novels in Books: A Memoir. He said that from his first novel on, he would ...
Novels set in Texas (5 C, 140 P) Pages in category "Books about Texas" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The novels and miniseries follow the exploits of several members of the Texas Ranger Division from the time of the Republic of Texas up until the beginning of the 20th century. Recurring characters include Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Woodrow F. Call, Joshua Deets, Pea Eye Parker, Jake Spoon, Clara Forsythe Allen, Maggie Tilton, Lorena Wood Parker ...