James Lee Burke (b. 1936)
Biography
James Lee Burke was born in Houston, Texas in 1936. He began writing
at the age of nineteen and has since published numerous books. Burke grew up
on the coastlines of Texas and Louisiana and followed in the footsteps
of many young men in that area by working in the oil fields and on pipelines
after school. After graduating from what is now the University of Southern
Louisiana, Burke taught at several colleges, was a social worker in Los
Angeles, a newsman in Louisiana, and was once even an employee of the U.S.
Forest Service in Kentucky. Burke, his wife, and their four children share two
homes; one in Missoula, Montana, and another in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Bibliography
Fiction
- Half of Paradise (1965)
- To the Bright and Shining Sun (1970)
- Lay Down My Sword and Shield (1971)
- The Lost Get-Back Boogie (1978)
- Two for Texas (1982, re-released as Sabine Spring in 1989)
- The Neon Rain (1987)
- Heaven's Prisoners (1988)
- Black Cherry Blues (1989)
- A Morning for Flamingos (1990)
- A Stained White Radiance (1992)
- Texas City, 1947 (1992)
- Winter Light (1992)
- In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead (1993)
- Dixie City Jam (1994)
- Burning Angel (1995)
- Cadillac Jukebox (1996)
- Cimarron Rose (1997)
- Sunset Limited (1998)
- Heartwood (1999)
- Purple Cane Road (2000)
- Bitterroot (2001)
- Jolie Blon's Bounce: A Novel (2002)
- White Doves at Morning (2002)
Short Fiction
- The Convict and Other Stories (1995)
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