Grace Halsell

Grace Halsell (May 7, 1923 – August 16, 2000) was an American journalist and writer.

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 Worth Star-Telegram", and the Washington bureau of the "Houston Post". She covered both the Korean and Vietnam Wars as a reporter, and was a White House speech writer for President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968. Halsell wrote thirteen books, the best-known of which was "Soul Sister" (1969). In 2000, she died in Washington, D.C., of complications from treatment for multiple myeloma, a cancer related to the medicine she took to darken her skin for "Soul Sister" research.

She bequeathed her papers to the Mary Couts Burnett Library at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Some of her work is housed at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. [ [http://www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/contemporary/fgh.html Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center] ]

Books

*"Soul Sister: The Journal of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi" (1969)
*"Evers: A Biography of Charles Evers" (1971)
*"Black-White Sex" (1972)
*"Bessie Yellowhair" (1973)
*"Journey to Jerusalem" (1981)
*"Los Viejos" (1976)
*"The Illegals" (1978)
*"Prophecy and Politics: The Secret Alliance Between Israel and the U.S. Christian Right" (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1986)
*"In Their Shoes" (1996)
*"Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture—and Destruction of Planet Earth" (1999)

References

External links

* [http://members.aol.com/gracehalsell/index.html Homepage]
* [http://www.wright.edu/~gordon.welty/Halsell_86.htm Excerpt from "Prophecy and Politics"]

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NAME=Halsell, Grace
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH=May 7, 1923
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DATE OF DEATH=August 16, 2000
PLACE OF DEATH=Washington DC