Jane Gilmore Rushing
Encyclopedia
Jane Gilmore Rushing is a Texan
novelist and journalist
, who formerly was a staff writer for the Abilene Reporter-News
in Abilene
, Texas. Her works are the subject of Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work, a book by Lou Halsell Rodenberger
(1926–2009), formerly professor of English
at McMurry University
in Abilene.
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
novelist and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, who formerly was a staff writer for the Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, USA. The newspaper started publishing three months after Abilene was founded by C.E. Gilbert, effective June 17, 1881. It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city....
in Abilene
Abilene, Texas
Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in west central Texas. The population was 117,063 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. It is the county seat of Taylor County...
, Texas. Her works are the subject of Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work, a book by Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Molcie Lou Halsell Rodenberger was a Texas author, educator, professor, and journalist.-Early years:Rodenberger was born in the rural Eastland County, Texas, community of Okra to educators, Austin Carl Halsell and the former Mabel Falls...
(1926–2009), formerly professor of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
at McMurry University
McMurry University
McMurry University, founded in 1923, is a private co-educational university in Abilene, Texas. It is a liberal arts school offering forty-one majors in the fields of fine arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, education, business, and religion, and nine pre-professional programs, including...
in Abilene.
Books
- Walnut Grove. Doubleday, New York (1964). OCLC: 1379605
- Against the Moon. Doubleday, Garden City, New York (1968). LCCN: 68014166 (Expanded from Rushing's original story published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, 37: 3 (Summer, 1961), 378-383.)
- Geh Schlafen, Mein Herz, es ist Zeit: Familienroman aus Texas. Christian Wegner Verlag, Hamburg (1969). ASIN: B0026O9O50
- Tamzen. Doubleday, Garden City, New York (1972). ISBN 0385012004
- Mary Dove: A Love Story. Doubleday, Garden City, New York (1974). ISBN 0385083025
- Evolution of a University: Texas Tech's First Fifty Years. With Kline A. Nall. Madrona Press, Austin, Texas (1975). ISBN 0890520178
- The Raincrow. Doubleday, Garden City, New York (1977). ISBN 0385130597
- Covenant of Grace: A Novel of Anne Hutchinson. Doubleday, Garden City, New York (1982). ISBN 038517702X
- Winds of Blame. Doubleday, Garden City, New York (1983). ISBN 0385177011
- Starting from Pyron. With photographs by Billie Roche Barnard; introduction by A.C. Greene. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas (1992). ISBN 089672283X
External links
- Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work, By Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Texas Tech University
- Jane Giilmore Rushing, By Cheryl Key and Peggy Scaggs, pages 160-165 in Texas Women Writers: A Tradtional of Their Own, Edited by Sylvian Ann Grider and Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Texas A&M University Press, 1997.