Houston is a literary hotbed with the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, organizations like Imprint, Nuestra Palabra, Arte Publico Press, and others all calling H-town or the immediately surrounding area home. The Ladies Reading Group of Houston was a significant founder of the public library system in Houston. Elizabeth Long, the author of the 2003 Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life wrote that Houston's "literary scene" contributes and draws upon the overall literary culture of Texas.
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Suzanne Rindell, author of The Other Typist, is getting lots of praise for her debut novel about the personal awakening of a young typist in a New York City police department precinct in the 1920s.
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Barbara Taylor Sissel Evidence of Life No list of Houston authors would be complete without a romance novelist - we're the home to the Romance Writers of America after all (the association was founded here in 1980).
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Larry Watts Cheating Justice League City resident Larry Watts spent 20 years in law enforcement.
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David Berg Run, Brother, Run A lawyer with offices in Houston and New York, Berg's Run, Brother, Run recounts the murder of his brother, Alan Berg by hitman Charles Harrelson (actor Woody Harrelson's father) in 1968.
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Katherine Center The Lost Husband a woman's life is transformed when her husband dies suddenly and she moves to the Texas Hill Country.
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