Rosa Latimer

Rosa Walston Latimer is the author of six historical non-fiction books, a playwright and an award-winning photographer. She has written for national and regional magazines and newspapers and was news editor of a print and an online newspaper and supervising director of a nationally syndicated television program. Rosa was the Flower Hill Urban Homestead Museum, Austin, Texas Writer-in-Residence, 2020-2021. The story of her Harvey Girl grandmother sparked her interest in preserving women's...See more

Rosa Walston Latimer is the author of six historical non-fiction books, a playwright and an award-winning photographer. She has written for national and regional magazines and newspapers and was news editor of a print and an online newspaper and supervising director of a nationally syndicated television program. Rosa was the Flower Hill Urban Homestead Museum, Austin, Texas Writer-in-Residence, 2020-2021. The story of her Harvey Girl grandmother sparked her interest in preserving women's history and inspired her to write her first book, Harvey Houses of Texas: Historic Hospitality from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle followed by Harvey Houses of New Mexico, Harvey Houses of Kansas, and Harvey Houses of Arizona - all published by The History Press. Harvey Houses of Kansas received a 2016 "Notable Kansas Book" award and Harvey Houses of Texas was nominated for a Texas Christian University Texas Book Award. Rosa lives in Austin, Texas. RosaLatimer.org See less