Mrs. Paul L. Knoles E. P. Novelist Writes Stories of Southwest By SHIRLEY VAN Our Woman of the Week is Knoles, known professionally raine Cox. The latter two names travel articles and western She has been chosen Woman of the Week because of her contributhe field of art in the tions to Southwest which is her native country. Fifteen years ago Mrs. Knoles writing short stories and began turned to the field of Westsoon writing because of her love ern of the Southwest and West. Since coming to El Paso with her husband 10 years ago, she has used the Rio Grande country for many of her story settings. Over 200 stories and articles of hers have been published in national magazines and some of the stories have been reprinted in anthologies. Articles have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, American Home, travel magazines and Denver Post magazine section. But most of her published material is Western romances, both short stories which take a week to write and novelettes which require two weeks of work. For 10 years Mrs. Knoles has belonged to El Paso Writers' League and Woman's Club of El Paso, and four years ago, she joined the Writers' Group the El Paso Woman's Club. For this year she is chairman of the reading committee which chooses writers from here who are outstanding in their field. Honors for writing have been bestowed upon Mrs. Knoles sev- STUDDIFORD tiny, vivacious Mrs. Paul L. as Thelma Knoles or Lorare familiar to readers of stories. eral times. She won second place in Texas Federation of Woman's Club short story contest for both 1952 and 1953. El Paso Writers' Group has recognized her twice recently. Last year they awarded her the "Elmer," which is in recognition of a story being, published for the first time entering the writers' group. Early this summer she was chosen for the "Chief Award" for 1954. It was given to her for a published Western novelette entitled "Spitfire of Heartbreak Valley." Here, of course, the Mexican border has provided much of the material used now in Western short stories and novelettes. this time Knoles is preparing an article intended for travel magazines. The tentative title is "Christmas in Guaymas," the material for it having gathered from two vacations there. With her success in story writing it was inevitable that Mrs. Knoles would become interested in radio writing. One of her girl's stories was dramatized on a national radio program and a local station has a tape of one of her original stories. In the future Mrs. Knoles hopes expand her career of writing to include television work which will open up an new field for her creative abilities.