Because This Is Texas - Clara Sneed

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Résumé :
Learned journals, as a rule, are unexciting and opposite of sexy, but (this) will knock your hat in the creek. -KENT BIFFLE, The Dallas Morning News A man walks free from two cold-blooded murders, acquitted by a jury of his peers. Why? a reporter asks a juryman. Because this is Texas. Written by a family descendant with exclusive access to private archives, Clara Sneed's non-fiction account of the Sneed-Boyce feud-now published for the first time in book form-tells of a love affair so passionate it blinded the lovers to any mere commonsense concerns, of three families and a society consumed by the fallout, and of a marriage that ultimately survived adultery. And those two murders. Sneed is also the author of the recently released Before We Turn to Dust (December 2024), a fictionalized version of the feud....

Biographie:
Clara Sneed was born in Texas and never got over it, despite a peripatetic childhood that landed her in California.She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature at UC Berkeley, raised a son, managed IT systems for a San Francisco law firm, and had a successful second career as a tutor for writing and Spanish-all the while working on her own writing.Though she began as a poet, she loves complex historical stories that require a lot of research. The events depicted in her debut novel Before We Turn to Dust (Blue Handle Publishing, December 2024) more than qualify. Her nonfiction account Because This is Texas, was first published in the 1999 Panhandle-Plains Historical Review and was republished by Blue Handle Publishing in June 2025.Sneed and her husband split their time between Berkeley and Milam County, Texas....

Sommaire:
Clara Sneed was born in Texas and never got over it, despite a peripatetic childhood that landed her in California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature at UC Berkeley, raised a son, managed IT systems for a San Francisco law firm, and had a successful second career as a tutor for writing and Spanish-all the while working on her own writing. Though she began as a poet, she loves complex historical stories that require a lot of research, and the events depicted in this account more than qualify. Her fictionalized account of the feud, Before We Turn to Dust, was published in the 2024 by Blue Handle Publishing. Sneed and her husband split their time between Berkeley and Milam County, Texas....