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Oak Cliff authors, musicians, etc.
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authors/writers/songwriters/actors media personalities who lived in, worked
in, or now live in and around Oak Cliff.
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Kittie Beletic, who currently lives near the Bishop Arts District,
is the author of 50 musicals and over 500 songs. She is
co-founder of Repertory Company Theatre in Dallas, Texas, now in its 20th
season. Her new book, What Color is Your Dream? offers a whimsical
journey through the creative process and is available online as well as in
bookstores, September 17, 2007. She is President of Kittiebgoods, a company
committed to fine artisans celebrating Art and Life. She continues to do
artwork, acting and national voiceover work with credits including MTV,
ASCAP, Musical Theatre Works (NYC) and PBS. Her performance history brings
added spark to public speaking and workshops. The mother of two grown
artists, Ms. Beletic confesses to finding it hard leaving a grocery store
without buying a box of crayons. She has art studios in Dallas, Texas and
upstate NY. Please enjoy her website, www.kittiebgoods.com. |
| Patricia Burroughs -
Novelist and screenwriter. Adamson High School grad. In 2001 she received a
Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Her webpage is at
http://patriciaburroughs.com |
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Mary Loving Blanchard-
In addition to working with the City
of Dallas to create a memorial honoring former slaves, Mary Loving
Blanchard, a poet who has been an Oak Cliff resident since 1975, has also
published a bibliographical text on American poets. The text, titled Poets
for Young Adults: Their Lives and Works, provides biographical and
bibliographical information on seventy-five poets. See the text at
http://www.greenwood.com or your local library. |
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Edie Brickell was born in '66 and raised in Oak Cliff. She was
born in '66. She broke out in '89 after playing in Deep Ellum with her
band Edie Brickell and the Bohemians. Their album went platinum. While
performing on Saturday Night Live, she met Paul Simon. They married and she
put her recording career on hiatus to have her 3 children. Her, Paul and
their 3 kids currently live in New York. When asked where she's from, she
doesn't say "Dallas", she says, "I'm from Oak Cliff, Texas" |
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Alan C.
Elliott -- Alan grew up in Oak Cliff and graduated from Adamson High School
(J.N. Bryan Elementary & Boude Story JHS). He's written over a dozen
books on topics including computing and business. His most recent books are Currents in American History (M.E. Sharpe Publisher with fellow Cliffite
Dr. Terry Bilhartz), Statistical Analysis Quick Reference Guidebook
(Sage Publishers) and A Daily Dose of the American Dream (Rutledge). Here's a link to Alan's web
site www.alanelliott.com. Alan also is on the board of and writes for Oak
Cliff's community drama group, The CrossWise Players.
Here's a link to
CrossWise Players.
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Dr.
Tony Evans -- Senior Pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship. Also, Founder and
President of The Urban Alternative; Serves as Chaplain of the Dallas Mavericks
basketball team; Bestselling author of several books including The Fire that
Ignites.
Click here to visit his bookstore.
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Ralph Gary, a SOC grad wrote Following in Lincoln's
Footsteps: A Complete Annotated Reference to Hundreds of Historical Sites
Visited by Abraham Lincoln
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William J. Garrett, TEXAS AGGIES: TRUE TO EACH
OTHER by William J. Garrett, A&M Class of 1947, Sunset High, Class of
1943. Book for sale by the Corps of Cadets Assn, Texas A&M. This is a
story of Fish Garrett arriving at Texas A&M during the war years as his
class and those upperclassmen on campus that Spring of 1943 who spent time
preparing for the call to arms. The A&M campus had turned into a military
base of its own training 25,000 enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marines and
Air Corps. His story begins his senior year at Sunset High recalling all
those Sunset High and Adamson High graduates packing up to ride the Sunbeam
from Downtown Dallas's Union Station to College Station. Recollections
include Goble Bryan,and Monte Moncrief who starred in the Texas State High
School Football Championship game in the Fall of 1942, and then played in
the Kiddie Korps for A&M in the Sugar Bowl a year later. The stories of 13
classmates are told; those who died on the way to or in the Battle of the
Bulge, or on Iwo Jima, or in attacking Japan before the A-Bomb ended the
conflict. Stories told for the first time in 60 years, and closes with the
contributions of those Aggies of the war years at A&M who lived to
accomplish extraordinary feats in their livetimes.
The author lived all but two years of his life in Oak Cliff except for the
time at A&M, including the past 6 years. |
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Tom C. Greer is an award-winning children's author who
lives in Oak Cliff. He is a veteran educator as well and loves visiting
schools and libraries in Dallas area.
www.weepingwillowpublishing.com |
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Karol Ann Hoeffner - (1950-) Prolific
screenwriter -- has written several television movies and shows (Remington
Steele, Palomino, Making of a Hollywood Madam, etc.) from
1984 to the present. She attended Daniel Webster, T. J. Browne, and Justin F.
Kimball. Her father was a principal at Clara Oliver Elementary, Atwell, and
Carter. |
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Linda Jones, freelance writer and media consultant,, has been
a resident of North Oak Cliff for 10 years. She is author of “Nappyisms:
Affirmations for Nappy-Headed People and Wannabes!” The book is one of
several projects under the group she founded called A Nappy Hair Affair,
Inc., which promotes African American culture and identity. The humor-based
book caught the attention of former NPR radio talk show host Tavis Smiley
who featured it on his show.
Linda, former feature writer for the Dallas Morning News, has used hair as a
device in her writing to get to the "root" of cultural and social issues.
The stories she wrote about Texas big hair, women with hairy legs and the
men who love them, "braid raids," and the stigma attached to nappy hair,
have sparked lively conversation and attracted national media attention.
Her essay about A Nappy Hair Affair appears in the anthology "Tenderheaded:
A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories" and her reporting appears in the
book “Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America." Linda is
also owner of ManeLock Communications which provides professional writing,
media and diversity consulting services. For more info see
www.amazon.com, www.nappyhairaffair.com
manelock@sbcglobal.net |
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Kara
Lennox, a.k.a. Karen Leabo, has written more than 40 novels of
romance and romantic suspense for both Harlequin/Silhouette and Bantam-Dell.
Before her career in romance, Kara was an art director, typesetter, textbook
editor and freelance nonfiction writer with hundreds of magazine articles
under her byline. She's worked at a boutique, a health club and an ad
agency. She's been an antiques dealer and even a blackjack dealer.
But no work has made her happier than writing romance novels.
When not writing, Kara indulges in an ever-changing array of weird hobbies.
(Her latest passions are treasure hunting and creating mosaics.) She
loves to hear from readers. You can visit her web page and drop her a
note at
www.karalennox.com.
Kara's next release is BOUNTY HUNTER RANSOM, from Harlequin Intrigue, due
out in 2004. |
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Richard
Mabry, MD, is the author of The Tender Scar: Life After The
Death Of A Spouse, as well as having written or edited a number of medical
textbooks. He lived in Oak Cliff while in medical school at the University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and after specialty training in ear,
nose and throat, practiced in Oak Cliff, and later in Duncanville, for 26
years, before becoming a professor at the same medical school from which
he graduated. He has written two novels, both of which are under active
consideration by publishers. His web site is
www.rmabry.com.
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Michael
Martin Murphy -- Called "Today's Best Selling Singing Cowboy"
graduated from Adamson in 1963. He
currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Music and American Studies at Utah
State University. For information on where he's performing --
Click here to
visit his web site. |
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Rob Preece is the
electronic publisher of www.booksforabuck.com and has written a number of romance and mystery novels available on the web. A
full-time author and book reviewer, Rob is also a black-belt in Tae Kwon Do
and a student of Jujitsu. His novel, ONE HANDSOME DEVIL is currently among
the top sellers on
www.booksforabuck.com. |
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Rosemary
Rumbley -- Speaker extraordinaire, humorist, writer for the Oak Cliff
Tribune and other newspapers and author of four books. She also appeared as Aunt
Billy in the movie Paper Moon. Books include Dear Santa- Thanks for
the Piano; The Unauthorized History of Dallas; Dallas, Too and
What? No Chili: Meet Hot Shot and Visit Food Festivals over Texas.
For a list of books on Amazon, click here. |
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Nancy Schaadt is a
freelance journalist and the lead restaurant critic and food writer for the
Fort Worth Weekly. Her reviews also appear in the Dallas Morning News. In
addition to food journalism, she also writes about travel, women's issues,
health, fitness, and business, pretty much anything
but football. She has also worked in small and medium market radio news (in
Allentown, Penna. and Washington, NJ), performing arts publicity (in Washington, DC and
San Francisco). Ms. Schaadt lives in Stevens Park with her husband Jamie Rafftesaeth, dog
Jackie and one very old cat named Coco. |
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Stuart
Sikes currently lives in Oak Cliff. He was
the engineer/producer for several successful records including the Grammy
winning album by Loretta Lynn, "Van Lear Rose" and the White Stripes
"White Blood Cells". Here is a story about him in the Dallas Observer:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-02-24/music/music.html
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Terry
Southern (1924-1995) was a prolific writer who graduated from Sunset
in 1942(?). His first novel, Flash and Filigree was published in 1958.
Other novels include The Magic Christian (1959) and Candy (1960).
He contributed to the movie Dr Strangelove in 1964, The Loved One (1965),
The Cincinnati Kid (1966) and Casino Royale and Barbarella in 1967. He also co-authored
Easy Rider in 1969. In the
early 80s he wrote for Saturday Night Live. He taught Screenwriting at
NYU and Columbia University from the late 80s until his death in 1995. |
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Bobby Vandiver, Sunset class of '56. A best selling
book, "Blood and Money" by Tom Tryon, portrayed the life and death of Bobby
Wayne Vandiver.This book was also made into a movie, starring Farah Faucett. |
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GLEN WAGGONER (Sunset
High School 1958) A graduate of Sunset High School (1958) and SMU
(1962), GLEN WAGGONER is the co-author (with John Daly) of My Life
in and Out of the Rough (2006), a New York Times bestseller. He
also collaborated with former Philadelphia Phillies star Mike Schmidt
on Clearing the Bases (2006). A second book with John Daly, Golf
My Own Damn Way, will be published by Harper Collins in December. He is
currently working on a book with former New York Yankee centerfielder Bobby
Murcer entitled A Yankee for Life, scheduled to be published by
Harper Collins in 2008. Waggoner, who first started playing
golf at Stevens Park in Oak Cliff in 1955, is also author of two other books
about golf, Divots, Shanks, Gimmes, Mulligans, and Chili Dips: A Life in
18 Holes (1993) and The Traveling Golfer (1991); and the
co-author (with Jim Flick) of Jim Flick on Golf (1997). Other books
include Esquire Etiquette (1990) and Baseball by the Rules
(1989). In addition, Waggoner is one of the founders (in 1980)
of Rotisserie League Baseball, which spawned fantasy sports in America, and
the editor of 14 editions of Rotisserie League Baseball: The Official
Rule Book and Draft-Day Guide (1984-1998. He has written
extensively about golf and other sports, as well as about cooking, health
and fitness, travel, people, manners, even fashion, for various national
magazines, including Esquire and Men’s Journal. His articles
and essays have also appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago
Tribune, USA Today, and numerous other publications. A founding editor
of ESPN The Magazine, he is currently Executive Editor of ESPN Books.
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Carol Helton Walt,
Sunset Class of '62 --author and speaker, graduate of Sunset High,
Class of '62. Her books include "West Texas Classified", "Dreaming in
Italian", and soon to be published, "Assisted Living". Her blog is
http://carolwalt.blogspot.com. Books are available at Barnes and
Noble.com,
Amazon.com and on-line bookstores for other major book sellers.
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UNCONFIRMED AUTHOR
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PENNY STALLINGS (Kimball ’64) – Authored books about the TV and Movie
industries. Also helped organize Woodstock.
PARRIS AFTON BOND (Maiden name Wilkes. Kimball ’62) – Authored many“historical novels” in the 1980’s.
NANCY TAYLOR ROSENBERG (Maiden name Taylor. Would have graduated Kimball
’64) – Authored about a dozen books, mostly mysteries. See her website for
more details: nancytrosenberg.com.
She attended Kimball in 8th through
10th Grades, then transferred to Gulf Park (a Hockaday-type school in Gulf
Port, MS no longer in existence) and graduated from there. |
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