Fred Gipson

Fred Gipson was born in 1908 on a farm near Mason, in the Texas Hill Country. He worked at farming and ranching jobs before enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin in 1933, where he wrote for the student newspaper and humor magazine. He left before graduating to become a newspaper reporter, working for papers in Corpus Christi, San Angelo and Denver. In the 1940s he began writing short stories with western themes for magazines, and his first novel, Hound-Dog Man, appeared in 1949. His best-known book, Old Yeller (1956), tells of a boy named Travis left in charge of his family's frontier farm in the Texas Hill Country in the 1860s while his father is away on a cattle drive, and of the big yellow stray dog who becomes his companion. It was a Newbery Honor Book and became a popular Walt Disney film in 1957, for which Gipson cowrote the screenplay. He wrote a sequel, Savage Sam. He died in Mason County, Texas, in 1973.

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