Novelists from Texas

The list Novelists from Texas includes Ethan Hawke, Michael Nesmith, Kinky Friedman, Barbara Barrie and Larry McMurtry. The list consists of 313 members.

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State of the United States of America

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Ethan Hawke

American actor and film director (born 1970)

Overview: Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer, musician, and director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and a Tony Award. Hawke has directed three feature films, three ...

Date of birth: 6 November 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Ryan Hawke (Married)

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Thurman Hawke family 7T

Actors from Mercer County, New Jersey 7T

American male feminists 121T
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Michael Nesmith

American musician, songwriter, and actor (1942–2021)

Overview: Robert Michael Nesmith (December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the pop rock band ...

Date of birth: 30 December 1942

Date of death: 10 December 2021

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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2021 deaths 9,360T

Michael Nesmith 3T

21st-century American male writers 6,101T
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Chris Harrison

American television personality

Overview: Christopher Bryan Harrison (born July 26, 1971) is an American television and game show host, best known for his role as the host of the ABC reality television dating show The Bachelor from 2002 to 2021 ...

Date of birth: 26 July 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Lauren Zima (Married)

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2021 controversies in the United States 46T

Entertainers from Dallas 28T

21st-century American male writers 6,807T
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Barbara Barrie

American actress and author

Overview: Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman; May 23, 1931) is an American actress and author.

Date of birth: 23 May 1931

Age: 94

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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21st-century American Jews 3,167T

University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts alumni 56T

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners 98T
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Kinky Friedman

American country musician (born 1944)

Overview: Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (October 31, 1944 – June 27, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styled himself in the mold ...

Date of birth: 4 November 1944

Date of death: 27 June 2024

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Male

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Jewish American people in Texas politics 9T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Larry McMurtry

American military historian

Overview: Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or in contemporary Texas ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1936

Date of death: 25 March 2021

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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2021 deaths 4,263T

Best Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 20T

Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 58T
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James A. Michener

American writer

Overview: James Albert Michener ( or ; February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were lengthy, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many gen ...

Date of birth: 3 February 1907

Date of death: 16 October 1997

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American memoirists 453T

20th-century memoirists 836T

Philosophers of war 59T
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Diane Fanning

American crime writer and author

Overview: Diane Fanning (born, June 21, 1950) is an American crime writer and author who writes nonfiction and mystery novels.

Date of birth: 21 June 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

Novelists from Maryland 113T

21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,037T
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William Goyen

American writer, editor, and teacher

Overview: Charles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher. Born in a small town in East Texas, these roots would influence ...

Date of birth: 24 April 1915

Date of death: 29 August 1983

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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People from Trinity, Texas 6T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

20th-century American short story writers 1,412T
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Judith McNaught

American writer

Overview: Judith McNaught (born May 10, 1944) is a bestselling author of over a dozen historical and contemporary romance novels, with 30 million copies of her works in print. She was also the first female executive ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1944

Age: 81

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women 4,137T

Women historical novelists 334T

Women romantic fiction writers 529T
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Jim Lehrer

American journalist and writer (1934–2020)

Overview: James Charles Lehrer () (May 19, 1934 – January 23, 2020) was an American journalist and novelist.

Date of birth: 19 May 1934

Date of death: 23 January 2020

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Male

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2020 deaths 13,018T

21st-century American male writers 6,512T

20th-century American male writers 9,514T
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Cynthia Bond

American author and former actress

Overview: Cynthia Bond (born 1961) is an American author. Her debut novel Ruby spent six consecutive weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, and was chosen as a selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. She was ...

Date of birth: 16 March 1964

Age: 61

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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21st-century American women writers 4,233T

Bisexual actresses 185T

LGBT novelists 690T
13.

Eric Chase Anderson

American actor

Overview: Eric Chase Anderson (born 1973) is an American author, illustrator and actor.

Date of birth: 1973

Age: 52

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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21st-century American male writers 3,233T

Writers from Houston, Texas 74T

American male voice actors 2,976T
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Whitley Strieber

American writer

Overview: Louis Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with no ...

Date of birth: 13 June 1945

Age: 80

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

Catholics from Texas 167T

21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,037T
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Terry Southern

American author

Overview: Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1924

Date of death: 29 October 1995

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
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Cormac McCarthy

American writer (1933–2023)

Overview: Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the ...

Date of birth: 20 July 1933

Date of death: 13 June 2023

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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2023 deaths 4,047T

Philosophical pessimists 43T

People from Tesuque, New Mexico 16T
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Robert E. Howard

American author (1906–1936)

Overview: Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is r ...

Date of birth: 22 January 1906

Date of death: 11 June 1936

Age: 30 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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1936 suicides 28T

American male writers who committed suicide 108T

20th-century American short story writers 1,412T
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James Dickey

American writer

Overview: James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1923

Date of death: 19 January 1997

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Darlington School alumni 15T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War 264T
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Lauren Kate

American writer

Overview: Lauren Kate (born March 21, 1981) is an American author of adult and young adult fiction. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages, have sold more than eleven million copies worldwide ...

Date of birth: 21 March 1981

Age: 44

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Novelists from Ohio 259T

21st-century American women writers 4,233T

Women writers of young adult literature 293T
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Sandra Brown

American author

Overview: Sandra Lynn Brown, née Cox (born March 12, 1948) is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura ...

Date of birth: 12 March 1948

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

Partner: Michael Brown (Married)

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Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers 21T

Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers 34T

Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers 22T