Myra Hargrave McIlvain

Myra Hargrave McIlvain, a sixth-generation Texan, has freelanced as a writer of Texas historical markers, written articles for newspapers all over the country and for magazines such as Texas Highways. Her love of a good tale prompted her to write six nonfiction books about famous and infamous Texas sites and characters. Her most recent, Texas Tales, Stories that Shaped a Landscape and a People, is a collection of 113 of her most popular Texas history blog posts. McIlvain’s latest love is historical fiction, which includes A German Family Saga series chronicling the development of the thriving German seaport of Indianola on the Texas coast and the life of the characters in post-Reconstruction Washington County. A Long Way Home is McIlvain’s eleventh book––the tale of a woman whom everyone thinks died on 9/11. Instead, she is living a secret life in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. McIlvain's most recent book, The Knotted Ring, is a tale of love, loss, and redemption during Texas' early colonization.