Rilla Askew

Prize for the Fire

By Rilla Askew - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

During England’s Reformation, when Henry VIII breaks from Rome and Cromwell is closing monasteries, fear and unease take hold with each new ...Read Review

Strange Business

By Rilla Askew - Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

Strange Business is a collection of short stories written about the people of Cedar, Oklahoma, focusing on specific events between the years 1961 and 1986. ...Read Review

Harpsong

By Rilla Askew - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

Novelist and short-story writer Rilla Askew converts a wandering troubadour-thief into an American icon in Harpsong, a bittersweet tale set during the Great ...Read Review

Fire in Beulah

By Rilla Askew - Published 2001

Genres:

SagaWestern

Fire in Beulah examines events, including lynching, racial warfare and land grabbing, that occurred during Oklahoma’s oil boom of the 1920s. It ...Read Review