Afterword to Gertrude Beasley's My first thirty years corrected typescript, ca. 1988.
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Beasley, Gertrude, 1892-1955
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Gertrude Beasley (June 20, 1892 – July 25, 1955) was an American writer and memoirist. She became a teacher and obtained a teaching degree; she left Texas to pursue a master's in education at the University of Chicago. She also worked as a journalist in Chicago. While there, she became involved in organizing for the National Women's Party. By 1920, Beasley was in Tokyo, where she wrote for The Far East and also for National Geographic. She later worked as a writer in China and in Moscow. Beas...
McMurtry, Larry
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Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, was born in 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He spent his early years on his father's ranch outside of Archer City. He graduated from the University of North Texas in 1958 and from a graduate program at Rice University in 1960. That same year he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His first novel Horseman, Pass By won the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1962. Hud, a movie based on this novel, received numerou...
Kelley, Edith Summers
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Novelist and secretary. From the description of Papers, 1907-1935. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36988565 Edith Summers was born in 1884 in Ontario, Canada. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1903, and she went to New York becoming Upton Sinclair's secretary for two years. Part of this time was spent at the experimental Helicon Hall in Englewood, N.J., a "commune" of young writers, artists, and assorted idealists. It was here that she met and became ...
Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935
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