Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers.
Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to Texas. She is the coauthor, with Barbara Brannon, of the Texas novels The Paragraph RanchA Wedding at the Paragraph Ranch.
FRANCES BRANNEN VICK is the retired director and co-founder of the University of North Texas Press and E-Heart Press. She holds the BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin and the and MA in English Stephen F. Austin State University, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of North Texas. After a career teaching English, she published over two hundred books, many of them state and national award winners.
In retirement, she has written One Hundred Years of “The Eyes of Texas.” She co-authored Petra’s Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy, which won the Coral Horton Tullis Award for the best book on Texas history from Texas State Historical Association, among other awards. She was the Carl Hertzog Award and Lecture Monograph recipient for Confessions of a Texas Publisher/Writer. She produced Literary Dallas and has written introductions and chapters for such books as Texas Women Writers; The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends; Texas Women on the Cattle Trails; and Notes from Texas Writers. Her latest books are Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty and Tales of Texas Cooking: Stories and Recipes from the Trans-Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies, Texas Folklore Society Publication LXX.
ELLEN CLARKE TEMPLE is former owner and president of Ellen C. Temple Publishing, Inc. She graduated in 1964 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received the BA degree. In 1974, she received the MA degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. She also completed the Rice Publishing Course in 1979 at Rice University.
A longtime advocate for libraries and the humanities in education, Temple has served as a board member for the T.L.L. Temple Memorial Library in Diboll, the Museum of East Texas, the advisory council of the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and the editorial advisory board of the University of North Texas Press, and has been a member of the Summerlee Commission on Texas history and the Philosophical Society of Texas. Temple was on the Texas Committee for the Humanities from 1983 to 1989 and chaired the committee in 1988. She was appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System by Governor Ann Richards in 1991.
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