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"Against the Moon." Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer, 1951): 376-90. Reprinted in Her Work: Stories by Texas Women. Edited by Lou Halsell Rodenberger, 234-46. Shearer Publishing, Bryan, Texas (1986) and University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas (2000).

Against the Moon. Garden City: Doubleday (1968); reprint with an afterword by Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Texas Tradition Series, Vol. 17, Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press (1991). ISBN 0875650945; ISBN 9780875650944; reprint Avon Books, Morrow/Avon, New York, NY (1979) ISBN 0380428121, ISBN 9780380428120

Against the Moon. Recorded Books, Prince Frederick, Maryland, 2004. Audio Cassette. Unabridged. 7.25 hours. Narrated by Cynthia Darlow ISBN 1419312014

"Albright Women." Redbook (May 1968; Vol. 131 No. 1}: 15517·

"Camp Springs," Early Ranching and Water Sources in West Texas. Snyder, Texas: Ranch Headquarters Association (Fall 1972).

With Kline A Nail. Evolution of a University: Texas Tech's First Fifty Years. Austin: Madrona Press (1975). I "The Grandmother of West Texas: The Myth of the Pioneer Woman in the Novels of Jane Gilmore Rushing." In Texas Women: The Myth, the Reality, edited by Joyce Thompson, 39-45. Denton, Texas: Texas Woman's University Press (1985).

Mary Dove WOMAN'S OWN 1978 Fiction for Leisure vol2#17 Mary Dove (Double Mountain Books), Texas Tech University Press (2003) ISBN: 0896725030 / 0-89672-503-0

Mary Dove, Avon Books, Morrow/Avon, New York, NY (1975) ISBN 9780380003020 "People and Place," The Writer (Sept, 1969): 9-rz.

"Against the Moon" won an Emily Clark Balch Award

"Raincrow." Redbook (July, 19n): 173-95·

"The Roots of the Novel" The Writer (July, 1975}: 9- u,46.

"The Setting in the Historical Novel." The Writer (Sept., 1984): 13-15.

Walnut Grove, Garden City: Doubleday, 1964; reprint, Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press (1991).

"Walnut Grove." Redbook (Dec., 1977): '9(219·

Wayfaring Strangers, in Careless Weeds: Six Texas Novellas, edited by Tom Pilkington, :;81. Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University (1993). GENTLE GIANTS--WOMEN WRITERS IN TEXAS, IVA NELL ELDER, ELDER INTERPRISES (1983)1ST EDITION; 2ND PRINTING 1988.

Mary Dove Has been translated into Japanese, French, Norwegian, and Swedish. The novel also won the first annual LeBaron R. Barker, Jr. Fiction Award by Doubleday 1975. In 1990 Rushing granted an option to two Hollywood screenwriters. Although Halle Berry expressed interest in playing the title character, no producer was found to fund the film. (From introduction by Rodenberger to Mary Dove, Texas Tech edition.)

The Raincrow Large Print Edition G. K. Hall & Company (1977) ISBN 13: 9780816165872 ISBN 10: 0816165874

Teacher, reporter, novelist. Born in 1925 in Pyron, Texas. She received her B.A.(1945) in journalism from Texas Technological College and her M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1974) in English from Texas Tech University. Taught in public schools and worked briefly as a reporter for the Abilene Reporter-News. She moved to Lubbock in 1952. She married James Arthur Rushing on Nov. 29, 1956, in Lubbock. Mrs. Rushing has published seven novels: "Walnut Grove" (1964), "Against the Moon" (1968), "Tamzen" (1972), "Mary Dove" (1974), "Raincrow" (1977), "Convenant of Grace" (1982), and "Winds of Blame" (1983). She also co-authored with Kline Nall "Evolution of a University: Tech's First Fifty Years" (1975) and contributed to "Early Ranching in West Texas" (1986). Mrs. Rushing is the recipient of many literary awards

” tackles subjects few West Texas writers have dared approach, including spousal and child abuse. Much of her work centers on cotton farms and early ranches in the land she refers to as the “too-late frontier.”

Mary Dove was a Scholastic school book selection.