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Biography. Letts was born as Billie Dean Gipson [1] in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Virginia M. (née Barnes), a secretary, and William C. Gipson. [2] She married Dennis Letts, a professor and actor, in 1958. [1] The couple had three children: Dana, Tracy (a playwright), and Shawn (a jazz musician/composer).
May 24, 2010 · The older Letts brothers, Dana and Shawn, found their own paths. Dana, "extremely bright, curious and sweet," as described by Billie, his stepmother, channeled the family’s interest in books, working at the Northeastern State University-Tahlequah library. Shawn picked up another of his dad’s loves, music, including an affinity for the ...
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Her first novel won the Walker Percy Award and the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, Dennis. With her prizewinning #1 New York Times bestseller, Where the Heart Is, and her acclaimed second novel, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, Billie Letts joined the ranks of America's best-loved storytellers.
Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to author Billie Letts (née Gipson) and college professor and actor Dennis Letts. He has two brothers, Shawn, a musician, and Dana. Letts was raised in Durant, Oklahoma, and graduated from Durant High School in the early 1980s.
LETTS, BILLIE DEAN GIPSON (1938–2014). Born on May 30, 1938, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, novelist and educator Billie Dean Gipson was the only child of Bill and Virginia Gipson. After graduating from Tulsa's Union High School in 1956, Billie Gipson attended Northeastern State College in Tahlequah for two years.
Aug 5, 2014 · Billie Letts, a late-blooming writer whose debut novel, “Where the Heart Is,” became a best seller after Oprah Winfrey endorsed it in 1998 and was the inspiration for a Hollywood film, died on ...
Aug 5, 2014 · Billie Letts, the author of the bestselling novel Where the Heart Is, has died. She was 76, and according to her son Tracy Letts, she died of pneumonia.
