Texas Tales, Stories that Shaped a Landscape and a People

Author: Myra Hargrave McIlvain

Published: 2017
Publishers: Sunstone Press; White Bird Publications; iUniverse; Create Space
Available for Purchase: Amazon; Barnes & Noble; BookPeople.com
Genre: Historic Fiction – Non-Fiction
Website: myramcilvain.com
Author’s Note: I wrote a family humor column for a regional newspaper and short stories while my children were growing up. I moved to Austin, and began writing historical markers for the Texas Historical Commission, which led to articles about the markers and eventually five nonfiction books about different regions of the state. I began writing a weekly Texas history blog, which grew into my latest non-fiction book. I also wrote two historical fictions about the wave of German immigrants who established the thriving seaport of Indianola on the Texas coast only to have it blown away in 1886. My first historical fiction is a coming-of-age story set in the last years of WWII.
OLLI Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin (LAMP) – Member, Former Chair, Co-chair, and History Committee Chair and Instructor

Other Book Titles: The Doctor’s Wife (2016); Stein House (2013, 2015); Legacy (2012)