Winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award for her novel, Spy!
Her novel, Wart, has won the Gamma State Author Award. Her latest novel, Time of the Witches, has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild Selection.
Anna Myers claims to have been born at Pinky George’s Liquor Store in Whiteface, Texas, but she admits her birth was not as racy as it sounds.When her father wastransferred from Oklahoma to work in the oilfields where there was not enough housing to accommodate the boom in population, the family lived for a while in a small house that had once housed Pinky George’s establishment.The sign was still embedded in the side of the house.She also enjoys stating that she was married at Woodstock, but if you press her, she will tell the rest of the story.
Anna published her first story before she learned to write, dictating her manuscript to one of her older sisters.She chose men’s action adventure as her genre and titled it The Long Bearded Man. The venture was a commercial success because she charged each of her older siblings, including the one who wrote it down for her, a quarter a piece to read it.There were five of them, and $1.25 was big money.She decided right then to be a writer. Read More...
Richard Trout firmly believes that ordinary people can do extraordinary things! Richard Trout is a biologist, college professor, and author of young adult novels. He comes from a family rich in historical heritage both in Texas and Oklahoma. His grandmother, Annie Miller was born in Granbury, Texas and crossed the Red River as a little girl in a covered wagon.She married into a Chicakasaw family, the Trouts, in Indian Territory.It was Annie Miller’s great grandfather who fought in the Texas Revolution and was honored a few years ago by the Texas Legislature. Professor Trout’s family still has the original Republic of Texas land deed to their ranch in Milam County, Republic of Texas.
As a seventh grade student in Lubbock, Texas, Richard entered an essay contest, writing about his Texas heritage for the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. He won a medal for his region and this began his writing career. The son of a minister, Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Richard counts his growing up years in Levelland, Texas, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lubbock, Texas, and Duncan, Oklahoma as the formative time of his life. But he spent many summers at his grandparents farm in the Arbuckle Mountains of Southern Oklahoma, near the tiny town of Pooleville where he learned to noodle for catfish in nearby streams and harvest wild honey from “live” beehives in trees near an alfalfa pasture. His grandfather, Harrison Cleveland Trout, taught him how to safely handle rifles for hunting and to be a good fisherman. Read More...
