24 books28 followers. The daughter of writer Harry H. Halsell, she studied at Texas Tech from 1939 to 1942, at Columbia from 1943 to 1944, at Texas Christian University from 1945 to 1951, and at the Sorbonne (Paris) from 1957 to 1958. She worked for several newspapers between 1942 and 1965, including the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the Fort ...Web