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Author Description James Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/51948-dave-robicheaux" rel="nofollow noopener">Dave Robicheaux</a> series. He has twice received the Edgar Award for Best Novel, for <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55019.Black_Cherry_Blues" title="Black Cherry Blues" rel="nofollow noopener">Black Cherry Blues</a> </i> in 1990 and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867102.Cimarron_Rose" title="Cimarron Rose" rel="nofollow noopener">Cimarron Rose</a> </i> in 1998.<br /><br />Burke was born in Houston, Texas, but grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Missouri, receiving a BA and MA from the latter. He has worked at a wide variety of jobs over the years, including working in the oil industry, as a reporter, and as a social worker. He was Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, succeeding his good friend and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole, and preceding Ernest Gaines in the position. Shortly before his move to Montana, he taught for several years in the Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the 1980s.<br /><br />Burke and his wife, Pearl, split their time between Lolo, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. Their daughter, Alafair Burke, is also a mystery novelist.<br /><br />The book that has influenced his life the most is the 1929 family tragedy "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.

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