His 2007 novel De overgave, to be translated as Someone Found, takes the subject of the 19th-century Texas Indian wars, dramatizing the story of the Fort Parker Massacre of 1836, in which a white girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, was taken as a Comanche hostage, later becoming the mother of the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker.
Cynthia Ann Parker died in March 1871 at the home of Orlena O'Quinn and was buried in Foster Cemetery on An County Road 478 in Anderson County near Poynor, Texas.
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The Dutch writer Arthur Japin also wrote a book, De Overgave (The Surrender), about the life of the Parker family and the loss of Cynthia Ann.
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