Duncan W. Alderson began his career writing advertising copy, then went on to teach English at the Toronto Waldorf High School. A Houston native, he was inspired by pictures of his mother dressed as a flapper in 1920s Texas and spent ten years researching and writing his novel Magnolia City. Duncan lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and New York City with his wife. Visit him at duncanalderson.com.
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Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and newly rich oil barons, where the elite live in beaux art mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as a real estat... SEE MORE