![]() ![]() During his year at Howard Payne he wrote stories for the school newspaper and for the Daniel Baker College newspaper and sold his first story to Weird Tales, a popular pulp magazine. He received the one-year certificate in 1927 but never used it. ![]() In 1925 he returned to Brownwood to obtain a business certificate from Howard Payne College. After graduating from Brownwood High School in 1923 Howard returned to Cross Plains and worked at a variety of odd jobs. Because Cross Plains did not offer the final year of high school he and his mother lived in a boarding house in Brownwood while he completed his senior year. For one year, at the age of twelve, he lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, while his father did additional medical study. ![]() Isaac Mordecai and Hester Jane (Ervin) Howard, was born on January 22, 1906, in Peaster, Texas, and educated in Central Texas schools, including the school at Cross Plains, where he lived most of his life. ![]()
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