Edna Gertrude Beasley wrote a memoir about her childhood in Abilene, Texas. The book was banned, but now the book is being reprinted and the mystery of her disappearance is worthy of a book all its own.

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The Disappearance of Gertrude Beasley

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/a-silenced-voice-of-texas-literature-is-finally-heard-again/