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JAMES
LEE BURKE
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James Lee Burke was born in Houston, Texas, in 1936 and grew
up on the Texas-Louisiana gulf coast. He attended Southwestern
Louisiana Institute and later received a B. A. Degree in English
and an M. A. from the University of Missouri in 1958 and 1960
respectively. Over the years he worked as a landman for Sinclair
Oil Company, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter,
college English professor, social worker on Skid Row in Los
Angeles, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service, and instructor
in the U. S. Job Corps.
He and his wife Pearl met in graduate school and have been
married 48 years, they have four children: Jim Jr., an assistant
U.S. Attorney; Andree, a school psychologist; Pamala, a T.
V. ad producer; and Alafair, a law professor and novelist
who has 4 novels out with Henry Holt publishing.
Burke's work has been awarded an Edgar twice for Best Crime
Novel of the Year. He has also been a recipient of a Breadloaf
and Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant. Two of his novels,
Heaven's Prisoners and Two For Texas, have been made into
motion pictures. His short stories have been published in
The Atlantic Monthly, New Stories from the South, Best American
Short Stories, Antioch Review, Southern Review, and The Kenyon
Review. His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was rejected 111
times over a period of nine years, and upon publication by
Louisiana State University press was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize.
Today he and his wife live in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia,
Louisiana.
Burke's Published Books are as follows:
Half of Paradise
To the Bright and Shining Sun
Lay Down My Sword and Shield
Two for Texas
The Convict
The Lost Get-Back Boogie
The Neon Rain
Heaven's Prisoners
Black Cherry Blues
A Morning for Flamingos
A Stained White Radiance
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
Burning Angel
Dixie City Jam
Cadillac Jukebox
Cimarron Rose
Sunset Limited
Heartwood
Purple Cane Road
Bitterroot
Jolie Blon's Bounce
White Doves at Morning |
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