Grace Halsell

Grace Halsell (May 7, 1923 – August 16, 2000) was an American journalist and writer.

Early life and education The daughter of writer Harry H. Halsell, she studied at Texas Tech University from 1939 to 1942. During the 1940s, she was briefly married to Andy Fournier, the chief of detectives in the Fort Worth Police Department. (1969), she used vitiligo-corrective medication to darken her skin and live as an African American for several months. In 1973, she published Bessie Yellowhair, in which she tried to pass as a member of the Navajo. For 1978's The Illegals, she disguised herself as a Mexican immigrant.

Death In 2000, she died in Washington, D.C. of complications from treatment for multiple myeloma. She bequeathed her papers to the Mary Couts Burnett Library at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Some of her work is housed at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

Books

Revised and enlarged edition 2003 included transcript of CBS 60 Minutes episode broadcast October 6, 2002 "Zion's Christian soldiers; how conservative Christians see Israel's role in bringing on the Second Coming of Christ."