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Biography. Letts was born as Billie Dean Gipson [1] in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Virginia M. (née Barnes), a secretary, and William C. Gipson. [2] She married Dennis Letts, a professor and actor, in 1958. [1] The couple had three children: Dana, Tracy (a playwright), and Shawn (a jazz musician/composer).
5 ago 2014 · Billie Letts, a late-blooming writer whose debut novel, “Where the Heart Is,” became a best seller after Oprah Winfrey endorsed it in 1998 and was the inspiration for a Hollywood film, died on ...
2 ago 2014 · Billie Letts (born in Tulsa, Oklahoma) was an American author. Earlier she worked as a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. She was married to Dennis Letts until his death in 2008, and is the mother of playwright and actor Tracy Letts and jazz musician and composer Shawn Letts.
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1 gen 1995 · Billie Letts. 4.03. 248,945 ratings4,259 reviews. Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this ...
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The novel opens with seventeen-year-old Novalee Nation, and her boyfriend Willy Jack, traveling from Tennessee to California, where Willy Jack claims he was promised by his cousin, J. Paul, a job working at a trainyard. Novalee is seven months pregnant, and superstitious about sevens after a series of misfortunes over the course of her life: at ...
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Her first novel won the Walker Percy Award and the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, Dennis. With her prizewinning #1 New York Times bestseller, Where the Heart Is, and her acclaimed second novel, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, Billie Letts joined the ranks of America's best-loved storytellers.
8 ago 2014 · Best-selling author Billie Letts, whose 1995 novel "Where the Heart Is" was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club and then adapted into a movie, has died in Oklahoma.
