Clancy Carlile(1930-1998)
- Writer
His father was half Cherokee, and he was born on a Choctaw Indian
reservation. He worked in Texas picking cotton until his sharecropper
family moved to California to pick fruit. He began writing while in the
Army during the Korean War and later received a Master's degree from
San Francisco State University. His first novel, "As I Was Young and
Easy" (1958), was written in 17 days. He wrote three others, "Spore 7"
(1979), "Honktonk Man" (1980 - which became a movie directed by a
starring Clint Eastwood), and "Children of the Dust" (1995 - a Sidney
Poitier CBS mini-series about the settlement of Oklahoma). He died at
the South Austin Hospital and was survived by two sisters (Peggy Lasado
and Jane Sanders), a son Steven, and four grandchildren.