Donna Hooks Fletcher: Life and Writings

By
David Bowles
– December 18, 2011Posted in: Book Release, History, Local Writers & Poets, News

In February, VAO Publishing (in conjunction with the Donna Hooks Fletcher Historical Museum) will release Donna Hooks Fletcher: Life and Writings, combining in a single volume all the surviving works of one of the Río Grande Valley’s most legendary historical figures, the name source of Donna, Texas (subject of the new film Miracle at Donna). This volume will be the first in VAO Publishing’s Río Grande Valley Historical Series

Book Description
Pioneer. Divorcée. Entrepreneur. Rancher. Postmaster. Visionary. Spiritual guide. Recluse. Donna Hooks Fletcher blazed trails for women in deep South Texas in the first few decades of the 20th century, and her life left an indelible mark on the heart of the Rio Grande Valley. Now, for the first time, her unique view of the world can be discovered in her own words.

Book Details
Paperback: 110 pages
Publishing Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615580971
ISBN-13: 978-0615580975

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About David Bowles

David Bowles was born in 1970 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, but has lived the majority of his life in South Carolina and the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, where he presently resides with his wife and children. Since 1994 he has worked in public education, as a teacher, administrator and university professor. A writer of young adult fiction, Latino-themed magical realism and politically speculative science fiction, Bowles launched his D'Angelo Chronicles in 2009. In April of 2011, Absey & Co. published The Seed: Stories from the River's Edge, a collection of YA short stories the author collaborated with his wife, Angélica Maldonado, to create. He is also the editor of Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Río Grande Valley and Donna Hooks Fletcher: Life and Writings. He is presently one of the editors of the magazine Flashquake.