There are 3 article(s) tagged Richard Halliburton:

• August 2020

  • ‘He was Memphis’ Indiana Jones, Marco Polo, P.T Barnum and James Bond’

    Richard Halliburton spent his short life “living poetry instead of writing it.”

    By Michael Nelson August 10, 2020

• June 2019

  • Conaway: A Memphian’s real-life adventure serial

    Richard Halliburton wrote a steamer trunk of bestsellers and syndicated articles, but to call him merely an author would be like calling Indiana Jones merely an anthropologist. And while Indy’s unbelievable fictional adventures are just that, Halliburton’s unbelievable adventures were real.

    By Dan Conaway June 07, 2019

• April 2019

  • Eighty years after his death, Richard Halliburton finds new life in fiction

    Richard Halliburton, a Memphis adventure travel writer from a past era, has turned up in a new series of spy novels as himself. The author researched Halliburton's life and his journals at the Rhodes College Halliburton archives.

    By Bill Dries April 06, 2019