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Fellow Texas State History Association, Texas Institute Letters; member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, National Book Critics Circle. W. Brands is a best-selling author, historian, and the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. ofplates. John Edward Weems ( b. in dj.

By: WEEMS, John Edward STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur (preface) PEARY, Robert) COOK, Frederick, Dr.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1960,

Seller ID: 66357

WEEMS, John Edward.

He has written thirty books, including The Zealot and the Emancipator, a dual biography of the abolitionist John Brown and President Abraham Lincoln, as well as The First American and Traitor to His Class, both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize. September 22, 1999, Waco, Texas).

Education

BJ, University Texas, 1948, M.Journalism, 1949.

November 2, 1924, Grand Prairie, Texas - d. The story of the battle between the Peary and Cook expeditions of 1909 and 1908 respectively, each competing for the claim that their party was the first to reach the top of the world. Preface by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Night news editor San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times, 1951.

Copy editor Dallas Morning News, 1952-1953.

Son of J. Eddie and Anna Lee (Scott) Weems. 8vo, white cloth with grey lettering to spine. Professor English, Baylor University, 1968-1971, lecturer creative writing, fall 1979. Lieutenant Reserve (retired). New York : Henry Holt and Company, (1960). Master of Arts in Library. Lightly edgeworn, else very good in nicked dustjacket.

Children: Donald (deceased), Carol, Mary, Barbara, Janet.

Father:

J. Eddie Weems

Mother:

Anna Lee (Scott) Weems

Spouse:

Jane Ellen Homeyer

child:

Janet Weems

child:

Barbara Weems

child:

Donald Weems (deceased)

child:

Carol Weems

child:

Mary Weems