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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.
Over the course of his career, Pennebaker has studied the nature of physical symptoms, health consequences of secrets, expressive writing, and natural language, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Templeton Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Institute, and other federal agencies for studies in language, emotion, and social dynamics.
Time by William S. Burroughs, with illustrations by Brion Gysin, is a saddle stapled pamphlet described in its publisher's forward as "a book of words and pictures." [1] It is an example of Burroughs' use of the cut-up technique, with which he began experimenting in the fall of 1959. [2]
The Texas Institute of Letters Lifetime Achievement Award is an award bestowed annually to distinguished writers from, or in some way associated with, Texas and is the TIL's highest honor. The honorees are chosen by the TIL Council from nominations made by the membership. Winners. 1981: Thomas C. Lea III (1907–2001) 1982: John Graves (1920-2013)
A person reading a book at the 2012 Texas Book Festival. The Texas Book Festival is a free annual book festival held in downtown Austin, Texas. The festival takes place each fall in October or November and includes programming for children and adults. [1] It is one of the largest and most critically acclaimed book festivals in the United States ...
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.
U.S. Book Publishing Yearbook and Directory, ISSN 0193-6417 1979-Michael Hackenberg, ed. (1987), Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America, Washington DC: Center for the Book, ISBN 978-0-8444-0569-8. Chapters include:
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