Elmer Stephen Kelton (April 29, 1926 – August 22, 2009) was an American journalist and writer, known particularly for his Western novels.
The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . . The writing is superb.
I just write whenever I can.
He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.
A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.
Vladimir Sorokin
Mel Brooks
Joshua Michael Stern
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
Tug McGraw
John Leguizamo
George Packer
Bob Jones III
Elizabeth Bishop
Charlie Worsham
Elisabeth Moss
Isaac Barre