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:
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A Strange Joy
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Remembering Time: Stories and Novellas
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Creative Spirit: Toward a Better World
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A Sunrise Brighter Still: The Visionary Novels of Frank Waters
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The Cold War of Kitty Pentecost
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The Myth of the Picaro: Continuity and Transformation of the Picaresque Novel, 1554-1954
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.
From the guide to the Alexander Blackburn Papers, 1880-1999, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
