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Paula Paul was born as Paula Griffith on July 31, 1938 on her grandparents’ cotton farm
near Shallowater, Texas. She graduated from a country high school as
valedictorian near Maple, Texas in Bailey County. She is the award-winning and
best-selling author writing under her own name and pseudonyms such
as Catherine Monroe and Paula Carter of more than thirty novels including Forgetting
Tommie and Inherited Sins, as well as her best-selling Alexandra
Gladstone Mystery Series. She got her start as a writer working
for the Morton Tribune, a weekly newspaper in Morton Texas, during
the summers between her student years working towards her journalism
degree.
Paul writes extraordinary stories that touch the heart and
challenge the mind. Her works cross genres with ease and include
historical fiction, literary works, mystery and YA novels.
In about 35 novels, she has taken readers around the world, from
Muleshoe, Morton and Lubbock Texas to Santa Fe and Albuquerque
to Charlottesville, Va., from the eighth-century Europe of
Charlemagne to the 18th-century Russia of Catherine the Great, from
the Yucatan to frontier Colorado, from 14th-century Italy to
Victorian England. She has written gothics, children’s books, young
adult novels, historical fiction, cozy mysteries and literary
novels, under her own name and pseudonyms such as Catherine Monroe
and Paula Carter. But no matter what she writes, no matter what time
period or in what far-flung place she sets the story, the West Texas
in her bones shines through.
In her 2017 novel, Crazy Quilt, Paula writes about coming
back to the places where she grew up, "the year is 1995, twenty years since I was
back here for a visit. Twenty years since Mother and Daddy went
broke and moved away. I am passing through this part of West
Texas that used to be my home, on my way to visit my Aunty Cora in
Lubbock".
Paula's latest book,
Colors of Truth,
follows the stories of Caroline and Pearlie, two teenage girls
growing up in Morton Texas in the 1950s.
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