Gene Schulze was a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin and of the University's medical school. He practiced medicine in Schulenburg, Houston, and Flatonia in addition to serving as a volunteer doctor in Africa, Central America, and Asia. In addition to his four books ( Yesterday's Seasons, The Third Face of War, Schweitzer: Shadow of a Star, and MIKE ) Gene Schulze published poems, short stories, essays, some of them in Texas-based publications. His book, The Third Face of War, won the Texas Institute of Letters' Carr P. Collins Award for the best non-fiction book of 1970. Gene Schulze was an enthusiastic rancher as well as an equally enthusiastic doctor and writer.
From the guide to the Gene Schulze Papers 2003-077., 1978-2000, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
