Owen P. White
Owen P. White

Owen P. White

Own Payne White, escritor y editor, fue el segundo hijo de Alward y Katherine J. (Payne) White, nació el 9 de junio de 1879 en el Paso Texas. White se graduó de El Paso High School el 27 de mayo de 1896, asistió brevemente a la Universidad de Texas en Austin en 1898 y regreso a El Paso a los pocos meses. Estudió leyes en la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU) pero nunca se graduó. Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial ascendió al rango de sargento trabajando en una unidad médica. El 22 de enero de 1920 se casó con Hazel Harvey y ese mismo año empezó a trabajar como columnista del periódico El Paso Herald. Publicó el libro "Out of the Desert" que habla de la historia local de El Paso, obtuvo favorables opiniones en el New York Times y llamó la atención de H.L. Mencken, editor de American Mercury.

Área: Central / El Paso High

Fuente: El Paso County Historical Society

Cargado por: El Paso Museum of History

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I have read all of Owen's books. They offer a social and historical perspective that would take years to glean from history books. What other writer was on a first name basis with notorius gunmen or FDR's V.P? Owens writing syle is unique and highly entertaining.

John Gordon Knight, "Owen Payne White, Password ,quarterly of El Paso County Historical Society, Vol X, No. 2, Summer 1965, 53-56.

March is Women's History Month. Read Frontier Mother by Owen White for details on daily life in early El Paso, TX.

tag Meet El Pasoans, newspaper, Owen White also skillfully wrote Frontier Mother, a history of his mother's life in El Paso, TX. Source of info is ISBN-0-87404-061-2

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