![]() Norton, 2003).īeasley stood out for the strength of her writing and for her personal tenacity. Larry McMurtry, the author of another Texas classic, Lonesome Dove (Simon and Schuster, 1985), spearheaded a 1989 limited-edition reissue of My First Thirty Years literary critic Don Graham excerpted the memoir’s first several pages in Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology (W. Among Texas writers in the know, her name circulated long after she disappeared from the public eye. Still, the few copies that survived were enough to keep Beasley’s (AM 1918) literary legacy alive. ![]() ![]() The book was banned in Britain, destroyed by US Customs, and hunted down by the Texas Rangers. Mencken called it “sharp and tremendously effective”-but it also attracted powerful enemies. Beasley’s memoir of her often-abusive Texas childhood earned praise from the era’s literati-H. ![]() She left behind only one book, My First Thirty Years (Contact Editions, 1925). In 1928 a young writer named Gertrude Beasley sailed from London to New York and was never heard from again. ![]()
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