A facility to help abused and neglected horses opened in 2011 and bears her name: the Doris Day Horse Rescue and Adoption Center, located in Murchison, Texas, on the grounds of an animal sanctuary started by her late friend, author Cleveland Amory.

Isabel Cristina Pinedo, author of Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, states, " The horror genre must keep terror and comedy in tension if it is to successfully tread the thin line that separates it from terrorism and parody ... this delicate balance is struck in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which the decaying corpse of Grandpa not only incorporates horrific and humorous effects, but actually uses one to exacerbate the other.

Some writers discount settlements that were abandoned as a result of a natural or human-made disaster, using the term only to describe settlements which were deserted because they were no longer economically viable ; T. Lindsey Baker, author of Ghost Towns of Texas, defines a ghost town as " a town for which the reason for being no longer exists ".

Mexican author José Raúl Conseco noted that many Irish lived in northern Texas, and were forced to move south due to regional insecurity.

The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Forrest Carter's 1973 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales ( republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas ).

It is named for Jacob Hunter Childress, the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

* Bill P. Keith, Texas author, lived in Mooringsport while he represented Caddo Parish in the Louisiana State Senate from 1980-1984.

* John Traphagan, author, associate professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology, and former director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

* Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger ( 1926 – 2009 ) lived much of her later years southeast of Baird, in the small community of Admiral.

* Jim Hightower, former commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture and a liberal commentator and author, was born in Denision in 1943.

* J. Marvin Hunter ( 1880 – 1957 )-Early in the 20th century, the Texas journalist, historian, and author of the American West, published the Comfort Times, which he soon disbanded.

The Texas author and folklorist J. Frank Dobie was born in Live Oak County near George West in 1888.

More information about the history can be found in " Remembering Slaton, Texas: Centennial Stories 1911-2011 " which was published in 2011 and written by author James Villanueva, who was born and raised in Slaton.

The story is the inspiration behind Texas author Larry McMurtry ’ s novel, Lonesome Dove.

* Texas author Edwin Lanham was reared in Weatherford, the slightly-veiled setting for his most critically acclaimed work " The Wind Blew West.

Rains was the author of the Homestead Law of Texas which was later used as a model for the protection of homesteads throughout the United States.

* Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Texas author and biographer of Jane Gilmore Rushing, was a professor at McMurry University.

Lomax, born in Austin in 1915, was third of the four children of pioneering folklorist and author John A. Lomax, with whom he started his career by recording songs sung by sharecroppers and prisoners in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

* Historian Henry C. Dethloff, author of more than two dozen books on American business, the space program, agriculture, petroleum drilling, and the history of Texas A & M University obtained his Master of Arts degree from Northwestern in 1960.

James Allen " Jim " Hightower ( born January 11, 1943 ) is an American syndicated columnist, liberal political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.

His grandson Stjepan is a sociology professor at Texas A & M and author of several books.

Martha Kay Renfroe ( born 1938 in Amarillo, Texas ) is an Oregon writer, author of mystery and science fiction under the penname M. K.

He is the author of The Early Turkish Novel, 1872-1900 ( Isis Press, 1984 ), translator of Turkish author Nazli Eray's novel Orpheus ( University of Texas at Austin, 2006 ) and co-editor ( with Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber ) of Building State and Security in Afghanistan ( Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2007 ).

Hersholt's best remembered film roles included Marcus Schouler in Erich von Stroheim's 1924 Greed and Shirley Temple's beloved grandfather in the 1937 film version of the 1880 children's book, Heidi, written by Swiss author Johanna Spyri.

Philip Augar, author of The Greed Merchants, said in an interview that: " You cannot simultaneously serve the interest of issuer clients and investing clients.

Bernard Lietaer, the author of The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity and New Money for a New World, has been active in the realm of money systems for close to 40 years in a wide variety of functions.

The collision and its aftermath, including efforts of some of the families to obtain more than financial settlements, were chronicled by author James S. Kunen in his 1994 book Reckless Disregard: Corporate Greed, Government Indifference, and the Kentucky School Bus Crash.

* Robert Bryce-journalist and author ( books include Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron )

`` The sexual relationship does not exist in a vacuum '', declares Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, medical director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and author of the recent book, Release From Sexual Tensions.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

In his book A Modest Proposal ( 1984 ), evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia in a future dystopia that advocated recycling of aborted embryos and fetuses, as well as some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological difficulties.

Publishers would receive a percentage on the sale of every copy of a book, and the author would receive the rest of the money made.

For example, if an author is paid a modest advance of $ 2000. 00, and their royalty rate is 10 % of a book priced at $ 20. 00-that is, $ 2. 00 per book-the book will need to sell 1000 copies before any further payment will be made.

Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).

The Egyptian author of the book De Mysteriis in reply to Porphyry ( vii.

In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

Al-Baghdadi was also the author of a major book dealing with diabetes.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

Reviewers were sharply critical on these grounds of both the author and the book.

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.

In other words, scholars have theorized that these books were originally composed as one book by a single author, but later were split apart.

The visions in the latter half of Daniel are theorized to be written by an anonymous author in the Maccabean era, who assembled the legends with the visions as one book, in the 2nd century BCE.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

Jewish and Christian tradition held that the entire book is by the 8th century BCE prophet Isaiah, but scholars have concluded since the late 19th century that it cannot be by a single author.

The author of the work identifies himself in the text as " John " and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he " heard a great voice " instructing him to write the book.

The book does not identify its author.

Even though the author of the book states that Ruth " just happens " to find Boaz's field ( Ruth 2: 3 ), the reader may be led to accede to the notion that in Bible terms there is no mere chance, but that chance and God's providence amount to the same thing.