Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work

Jane Gilmore Rushing grew up in Pyron, a Texas town no longer in existence, and from childhood she knew that she would be a writer. In seven novels produced between 1963 and 1984, she built her stories around themes that few West Texas writers had dared to tackle. Much of her work centers on cotton farms and early ranches in a land she calls the “too-late frontier.” Those not familiar with her novels might find it surprising that Rushing’s plots explore such sensitive topics as an affair be...