T. Felder Dorn

T. Felder Dorn will sign and discuss The Downfall of Galveston's May Walker Burleson: Texas Society Marriage & Carolina Murder Scandal (History Press; $21.99).

T. Felder Dorn graduated from Duke University in 1954 with a BS in chemistry and was awarded a PhD in that discipline in 1958 by the University of Washington. He was a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1958-69 and then served four years on the program staff of the College Board in New York. From 1973 to 1991, he held administrative positions at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, serving as associate dean, dean and vice-president for academic affairs. His last ten years at Kean were spent as professor of chemistry. He retired in 2001. Felder Dorn and his wife, Sara Ruth, have resided in Millburn, New Jersey, since 1973. They have three children and three grandchildren. Dorn has previously published four books: Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation (University of South Carolina Press, 2013); Death of a Policeman, Birth of a Baby: A Crime and Its Aftermath (Xlibris, 2012); The Guns of Meeting Street: A Southern Tragedy (University of South Carolina Press, 2001); and The Tompkins School, 1925-1953: A Community Institution (Attic Press, 1994).

Event date: 

Monday, April 30, 2018 - 6:30pm

Event address: 

2342 Bissonnet St.
Houston, TX 77005
The Downfall of Galveston's May Walker Burleson: Texas Society Marriage & Carolina Murder Scandal (True Crime) By T. Felder Dorn Cover Image
$24.99
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ISBN: 9781467139663
Published: History Press - April 2nd, 2018

Jennie May Walker Burleson was envied for having everything a woman of her time could want--the privileged upbringing, the dazzling good looks, the dashing war hero husband. She was admired for demonstrating that a woman could want more, from the front of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession to the bottom of a Mesoamerican archaeological dig.