2002 Louisiana Writer Award Recipient
 James Lee Burke
Novelist
Personal Information
Awards
Career
Writings
Source Citation
Personal Information
Family: Born December 5, 1936, in Houston, TX; son of James Lee (a natural gas engineer) and Frances (Benbow) Burke; married Pearl Pai Chu, January 22, 1960; children: James, Andree, Pamela, Alafair.
Education: Attended University of Southwest Louisiana, 1955-57; University of Missouri, B.A., 1959, M.A., 1960.
Politics: "Jeffersonian Democrat."
Religion: Roman Catholic.
Hobbies and other interests: Fishing, playing guitar, tennis, baseball, bluegrass music.
Addresses: Home: Louisiana and Montana. Agent: Philip Spitzer, 50 Talmage Farm Ln., East Hampton, NY 11937.
Awards
Breadloaf fellow, 1970; Southern Federation of State Arts Agencies grant, 1977; National Endowment grant, 1977; Pulitzer Prize nomination, 1987, for The Lost Get-Back Boogie; Edgar Allan Poe awards for Best Novel, Mystery Writers of America, 1989, for Black Cherry Blues, and 1998, for Cimarron Rose; Guggenheim fellow, 1989; Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination for best novel, and Hammett Prize nominee, North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers, both 2003, both for Jolie Blon's Bounce..
Career
Writer. Worked variously as a surveyor, social worker in Los Angeles, CA, 1962-64, newspaper reporter in Lafayette, LA, 1964, and English instructor at colleges and universities, including University of Southern Illinois, University of Montana, Miami-Dade Community College, and Wichita State University; U.S. Forest Service, Job Corps Conservation Center, Frenchburg, KY, instructor, 1965-66.
Writings by the Author
Novels
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Half of Paradise, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1965.
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To the Bright and Shining Sun, Scribner (New York, NY), 1970.
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Lay down My Sword and Shield, Crowell (New York, NY), 1971.
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Two for Texas, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1983, published as Sabine Spring, Watermark Press, 1989.
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The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1986.
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The Convict, Hyperion, 1995.
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White Doves at Morning, Simon & Schuster, 2002.
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Last Car to Elysian Fields, Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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"Dave Robicheaux" Crime Novels
The Neon Rain, Holt (New York, NY), 1987.
Heaven's Prisoners, Holt (New York, NY), 1988.
Black Cherry Blues, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989.
A Morning for Flamingos, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1990.
A Stained White Radiance, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1992.
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1993.
Dixie City Jam, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1994.
Burning Angel, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1995.
Cadillac Jukebox, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1996.
Sunset Limited, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1998.
Purple Cane Road, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2000.
Jolie Blon's Bounce, Simon and Schuster (New York, NY), 2002.
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Billy Bob Holland" Crime Novel
Cimarron Rose, Hyperion (New York, NY), 1997.
Heartwood, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1999.
Bitterroot, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2001.
In the Moon of Red Ponies, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2004.
Other
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The Convict and Other Stories, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1985.
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(With Kenneth E. Davison) Ohio's Heritage, Peregrine Smith Books (Layton, UT), 1989.
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Texas City, Nineteen Forty-Seven, Lord John Press (Northridge, CA), 1992.Short story anthologized in Best American Short Stories of 1986. Also contributor of short stories to periodicals, including Atlantic, Quarterly West, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Southern Review.
Source Citation
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
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Past Louisiana Writer Award Recipients
Yusef Komunyakaa
October 2007
Elmore Leonard
October 2006
Lewis P. Simpson
October 2005
Shirley Ann Grau
November 2004
Carl Brasseaux
November 2003
James Lee Burke
November 2002
William J. Smith
April 2001
Ernest J. Gaines
October 2000 |
