Richard Halliburton Biography
Biography of one of America's greatest adventure travel writer.
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| kylu |
cool dude intresting |
3/25/2008 |
| Judy Bacon |
This is an excellent biography of my distant cousin, Richard Halliburton. I would like permission to post a copy of it on my family tree website, with credit to the author. |
3/10/2008 |
| Dan Herold |
The biographer is incorrect. Halliburton was not an only child. He had a brother who predeceased him. The brother died of menigitis if I recall correctly. |
8/3/2007 |
| Frances Bray |
An excellent biography |
5/22/2007 |
| cole |
a) Birthdate is 9 Jan 1900, not 7 Jan as you have. Ref.: "Richard Halliburton: His Story of His Life's Adventure, As Told in Letters to His Mother and Father," Bobbs-Merrill, 1940.
b) The "last message" you quote is actually the next-to-last. See "Halliburton: The Magnificent Myth" by Jonathan Root, pub early 1960s, which quotes both letters.
c) Paul Mooney was more than Halliburton's "friend"; RH was gay and PM was his lover for many years. Halliburton's homosexuality is largely suppressed in Root's bio because it was written in close collaboration with RH's parents, although there are many allusions throughout and one doesn't have to be particularly skilled at reading between the lines to find them. Even letters to/from PM seem to be missing from the list of RH's papers which Princeton has online.
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11/10/2006 |
| callie |
its really brave of richard to do that! |
11/10/2006 |
| Justin Peel |
The chinese junk was called "Green Dragon" not "Sea Dragon". I know this story all too well. As told by my grandfather Rex E. Purcell, he sailed it's sister ship called, "Pan-jin" months before Halliburton's departure from Hong Kong, it too sank but he and his crew survived near Aden. |
9/19/2006 |
| Dan Scott |
Halliburton was born on January 9th not the 7th. |
1/30/2006 |
| Gary G. Taylor |
Regarding Halliburton, Richard bio:
a) Birthdate is 9 Jan 1900, not 7 Jan as you have. Ref.: "Richard Halliburton: His Story of His Life's Adventure, As Told in Letters to His Mother and Father," Bobbs-Merrill, 1940.
b) The "last message" you quote is actually the next-to-last. See "Halliburton: The Magnificent Myth" by Jonathan Root, pub early 1960s, which quotes both letters.
c) Paul Mooney was more than Halliburton's "friend"; RH was gay and PM was his lover for many years. Halliburton's homosexuality is largely suppressed in Root's bio because it was written in close collaboration with RH's parents, although there are many allusions throughout and one doesn't have to be particularly skilled at reading between the lines to find them. Even letters to/from PM seem to be missing from the list of RH's papers which Princeton has online.
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12/29/2005 |
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