Eighty years after his death, Richard Halliburton finds new life in fiction
Author Garrett Drake, left, and Bill Short, the keeper of Rhodes College's Richard Halliburton collections, talked Monday at Novel bookstore about Drake's new historical novel that portrays Halliburton as a spy. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
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.
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