Tulsa: A Photographic Portrait of the Tulsa Region by Grace Hawthorne (2005) Hardcover

by Grace Hawthorne

If you used to live in Tulsa and returned today for a visit, you'd never recognize this shining light of Oklahoma. The world-class museums, the top-rated zoo, the internationally acclaimed ballet company. It has neighborhoods bordered by wonderful shops and restaurants, and populated by handsome homes shaded by sighing trees. Tulsa-A Photographic Portrait of the Tulsa Region captures all that is great about this city. More than a year in the making, it features the work of photographers from across America as well an Tulsa's own talented backyard. For 240 pages, you will get to tour a city that has much to boast about. The photographers went backstage at the ballet, into homes and churches, high up in the air, and deep into the end zones at football games. For close to 100 days, our shooters shot and Tulsans-as they are prone to do-opened up their doors and lives to allow us to chronicle their city.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

I am Yankee born and Southern raised. Born in New Jersey, grew up in Louisiana, lived in Texas, Germany, New York City and now Georgia.
Ever since I got my first byline in junior high, I’ve been a writer, mostly freelance. I’ve written advertising copy for septic tanks, the libretto for an opera, lyrics for Sesame Street and worked as an editor for Time-Life Books and a national storytelling magazine. At one point, I was full time-free lance writing the book and lyrics for children’s musicals. One of them, It’s Cool in the Furnace. According to the publisher, it is the longest selling children’s’ musical in sacred music history.

My first novel, Shorter’s Way, is a political love story about rambunctious Georgia politics in the 1920s. My second novel, Waterproof Justice, is a misadventure about 1940s madams, Mafia, mischief and mayhem in Louisiana.

Currently I am fixin’ to commence to get ready to start to think about my next book. Stay tuned.