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Hearon, Shelby was born on January 18, 1931 in Marion, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of CharlesBoogher and Evelyn Shelby (Roberts) Reed.
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For her finely crafted novels, Shelby Hearon has been awarded prestigious grants and fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim. Other accolades include five NEA/PEN prizes and two Texas Institute of Letters best novel awards.Both comic and touching, A Prince of a Fellow is a surprising twist of the old frog and princess fairy tale, set in a quirky German community in the Texas Hill Country.
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Sarah and Harriet have led parallel lives ever since they went to boarding school together. Now in their fifties, they are widowed within three months of each other. Sarah and Harriet gradually come to terms with each other, the men they buried and the life that continues to go on around them.
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When her husband dumps her for an old girlfriend and sets all of Peachland, South Carolina, gossiping, Janey Daniels has to get away—far away—for a "sabbatical" year. She flees to Burlington, Vermont, home of Aunt May, her mother's only living relative. There she adopts Beulah, a Labrador puppy in training to become a companion dog for the blind. Not for a moment does Janey suspect that this "year of the dog" will change her life forever. Shelby Hearon is an acknowledged master at illuminating the nuances of relationships. In Year of the Dog, she explores the surprising ways that the heart heals after a betrayal. While Janey is training Beulah, Beulah leads Janey to a new love, James Maarten, a smart, "fidgety" teacher they meet at the dog park. As Janey soon discovers, James has suffered a betrayal of his own that makes it hard for him to open up and trust her with even the smallest details of his past. While Janey tries to help James, she also reaches out to her enigmatic Aunt May, a retired librarian reputed to be the friend, perhaps even the lover, of popular mystery writer Bert Greenwood. When Janey attempts to solve the twin mysteries of why her great aunt has distanced herself from the family—and what her true relationship is with Bert Greenwood—Beulah provides the clues that lead Janey to uncover the secrets of her aunt's life. By the time Beulah's stay with Janey comes to an end, the people whose lives she's linked will discover that healing and reconciliation can come in the most unexpected ways.
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Shelby Hearon’s excellent twelfth novel opens, And they lived happily ever after.” It ends, Once upon a time.” The opening and closing lines echo many of the themes of the novel. The book opens with Cile Tate leaving her Presbyterian preacher husband to return to the early love of her life, Drew Williams. The fact that Cile and Drew are both married complicates things, and they have to bring four lives to endings and beginnings. When Cile decides to leave Eben Tate, she is amazed when he announces her abandonment of him and their two daughters from his pulpit. She doesn’t even have a chance to tell the daughters in advance. All this makes Cile a fallen woman in the eyes of the church members and the citizens of Waco, the bastion of Baptist religion in Texas. The title reflects one of the Baptist tenets that is so often satirized, that hug dancing is a prelude to fornication. Cile and Drew are hug dancing in a serious way. One of the ironies of the book is that Eben Tate hug dances” with a member of his congregation almost immediately after Cile leaves. Cile is a friend of Drew’s mother, Lila Beth, who introduces her to her socialite daughter-in-law, Mary Virginia, the mother of Drew’s two teenaged sons. It is through Lila Beth that Cile and Drew resume the love they knew as young people. The novel begins almost at the end and then twists back and forth over the three months it takes for Cile and Drew, once teenaged hug dancers, to find a way to live happily ever after.” The book captures the life of Central Texas in the 1990s, Mary Virginia’s social world in Dallas, and the blackland farm north of Waco and east of the town of West, where the government is planning the supercollider, which of course was abandoned part way through.
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Acclaimed author Shelby Hearon is winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award and two Texas Institute of Letters fiction awards. Taking place during the 1960s' rebirth of feminism, The Second Dune is an insightful and emotional tale revealing one woman's search for independence.
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Award-winning author Shelby Hearon, an adept observer and commentator on human nature, focuses on the joys and sorrows of family relationships. Her latest success in marrying style to subject is Ella in Bloom, a novel exploring how it's never too late to make peace with yourself and with others. Terrell has asked her sister, Ella, to conceal her adulterous affair from the family. When Terrell dies in a plane crash just hours later en route to meet her lover, the lie takes on a life of its own. Having spent life in the shadow of her "perfect" older sister, Ella comes face to face with unexpected challenges. Struggling to be honest, Ella feels love blossom in her heart for Rufus, Terrell's grieving spouse. Narrator Alyssa Bresnahan voices the changes in Ella's thoughts, actions, and words with great emotional depth, making the listener feel a connection to this blooming woman, a woman we all know.
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Hearon, Shelby was born on January 18, 1931 in Marion, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of CharlesBoogher and Evelyn Shelby (Roberts) Reed.
Children from previous marriage: Anne Rambo, Reed Hearon. Bachelor, University Texas, 1953. Distinguished visiting professor University of Illinois, Chicago, 1993, Colgate University, 1993, U. Miami, 1994, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994-1996, Middlebury College,1996.
Distinguished visiting professor University Illinois, Chicago, 1993, Colgate University, Austin, 1993, University Miami, Florida, 1994, University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994-1996, Middlebury College, 1996-1998.
Hearon has been awarded fiction fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also received the Texas Institute of Letters award twice, and a lifetime achievement award from the Texas Book Festival. Five of her short stories were awarded NEA/PEN syndication Short Story Prizes.
Her novel Owning Jolene won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award.
( When her husband dumps her for an old girlfriend and se...)
( The Second Dune, Shelby Hearon’s second novel, was publ...)
( Acclaimed author Shelby Hearon is winner of an American...)
( Award-winning author Shelby Hearon, an adept observer a...)
( For her finely crafted novels, Shelby Hearon has been a...)
(Sarah and Harriet have led parallel lives ever since they...)
( Shelby Hearon’s excellent twelfth novel opens, And the...)
(All books are shipped Media Mail with Delivery Confirmati...)
(Painted Dresses: A Novel, by Hearon, Shelby)
(A Classic in its Field!)
(Book by Hearon, Shelby)
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President Texas Institute Letters, 1980. Chair literature panel Texas Commission on Arts, 1980. Member literature panel New York Council on Arts, 1985.
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Associated Writing Programs, Texas Institute Letters (Fiction award 1973, 1978), Poets and Writers Inc., Authors Guild.
Married William Halpern, August 19, 1995. Children from previous marriage: Anne Rambo, Reed Hearon.
