Rosa Walston Latimer

Rosa Walston Latimer, who lives in Austin, Texas, is the award-winning author of a series of books about the establishment of Harvey Houses along the Santa Fe Railroad: Harvey Houses of Texas , Harvey Houses of New Mexico , Harvey Houses of Arizona and Harvey Houses of Kansas , the last of which received the Kansas Notable Book Award in 2016. Rosa is the 2020-21 artist-in-residence for the Flower Hill Foundation in Austin. She regularly contributes to a national magazine, has edited both print...See more

Rosa Walston Latimer, who lives in Austin, Texas, is the award-winning author of a series of books about the establishment of Harvey Houses along the Santa Fe Railroad: Harvey Houses of Texas , Harvey Houses of New Mexico , Harvey Houses of Arizona and Harvey Houses of Kansas , the last of which received the Kansas Notable Book Award in 2016. Rosa is the 2020-21 artist-in-residence for the Flower Hill Foundation in Austin. She regularly contributes to a national magazine, has edited both print and online newspapers and was supervising director for a nationally syndicated children's television program. Rosa has taught memoir and nonfiction writing at the West Texas Writers' Academy at West Texas A&M in Canyon, Texas, and for the Story Circle Network, and she offers online workshops on how to write a family history. See less