James Wakefield Burke (b. 1916)

Biography

Burke lived for most of his professional life in Germany. Before leaving the States, he wrote for Esquire magazine in the 1930s. From 1945-46 he was a war correspondent in and later he was the staff correspondent in Berlin for the Indianapolis News. He attended the University of Tennessee for his undergraduate degree, taking his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Southern California and Chicago, respetively.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Sister of the Sun (1942)
• The Big Rape (1951)
• Thirsty People in the Rain (1952)
• Three Days Pass—To Kill (1954)
• Of a Strange Woman (1954)
• Wrong Side of Paradise (1955)
• Taboo (1957)
• The Sweet Dream (1964)
• The Blazing Dawn (1975)
• Arli (1978)
• Devil on the Wall (1987)

Non-Fiction

• Missions of Old Texas (1971)
• David Crockett: The Man Behind the Myth (1984)

Short Fiction

• Fraulein Lili Marlene and Other Stories (1953)

Sources and Links

• Tennessee Authors

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