Burke has been recognized three times by the Mystery Writers of America.Burke received the 2002 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the "literary intellectual heritage of Louisiana." The award was presented by the then-Lieutenant-Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, on November 2, 2002, at a ceremony held at the inaugural Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge. 1988: Burke was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction.In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (1993).Extended family include cousins novelist Elizabeth Nell Dubus and author and actress DeLauné Michel. Daughter Pamala Burke McDavid died in 2020. They have four children, including Alafair Burke, a law professor and best-selling crime writer. Personal life īurke and his wife, Pearl (née Pai Chu ), owned a home in Lolo, Montana and in New Iberia, Louisiana. He taught at the University of Missouri as a grad student, then at the University of Louisiana, the University of Montana, and Miami-Dade Community College, before settling in Wichita, Kansas to teach at Wichita State University in 1978. Forest Service, as a newspaper reporter, as a social worker on Skid Row, Los Angeles, as a land surveyor in Colorado, in the Louisiana State unemployment system, and in the Job Corps in the Daniel Boone National Forest in eastern Kentucky. At various times, he worked as a truck driver for the U.S. He worked in a variety of jobs over the years, while books he had written were rejected, and books he had published went out of print. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and University of Missouri, receiving bachelor of arts and Master of Arts degrees in English literature from the latter.
Burke has also written five miscellaneous crime novels (including Two for Texas), two short-story collections, four books starring protagonist Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland, four books starring Billy Bob's cousin Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, and two books starring Weldon Avery Holland, grandson of legendary Texas lawman Hackberry Holland.īurke was born in Houston, Texas, but spent most of his childhood on the Texas- Louisiana Gulf Coast. Burkes' literary forebear is Thomas Hardy." īurke's 1982 novel, Two for Texas, was made into a 1998 TV movie of the same name. Wirt Williams, reviewing Burke's first novel, Half of Paradise (1965), in the New York Times, compared his writing to Jean-Paul Sartre and Ernest Hemingway, but concluded "Mr. The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin ( Heaven's Prisoners) and then Tommy Lee Jones ( In the Electric Mist). He has won Edgar Awards for Black Cherry Blues (1990) and Cimarron Rose (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series.
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