Author: Ellen Walker Rienstra
Alternate names: Ellen Walker Rienstra; Marie Beaumont; Elinor Lynley
Bio: Southeast Texas natives ELLEN WALKER RIENSTRA and JUDITH WALKER LINSLEY are sisters with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lamar University. Rienstra is a violinist and historical consultant. Linsley is a researcher for the McFaddin-Ward House, a history instructor at Lamar, a newspaper columnist, and editor of The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record. The sisters also wrote as Marie Beaumont and Elinor Lynley.