Blackburn, Alexander.

Alexander Blackburn (b. 1929) is the son of William Blackburn and Elizabeth Cheney Bayne Blackburn. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina (M.A., 1956) and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1963). He served in the U. S. Army during the Korean War before becoming a professor of English and literature at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 1973. His interests and writings center on the American West; he has also published a critical study on the writer-philosopher Frank Waters. Blackburn also founded and edited the Writers' Forum literary journal. He retired 1995 but continues to write and publish. His books and novels include the following:

More information on Alexander Blackburn can be found at his website, www.alexanderblackburn.com . His autobiography, Meeting the Professor (2008), details both his life and that of his father, William Blackburn.