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- Birth nameClarence Lawson Carlile
- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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