T. R. Fehrenbach
Author
1925 – 2013
Who was T. R. Fehrenbach?
Theodore Reed Fehrenbach, Jr. was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission. He graduated from Princeton University in 1947, and had published at least eighteen non-fiction books, including best seller Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans and This Kind of War, about the Korean War.
Although he served as a U.S. Army officer during the Korean War, his own service is not mentioned in the book. Fehrenbach also wrote for Esquire, The Atlantic, The Saturday Evening Post, and The New Republic. He was known as an authority on Texas, Mexico, and the Comanche people. He wrote a weekly column on Sundays for the San Antonio Express-News. On August 23, 2013, T.R. Fehrenbach announced that he would retire from writing columns because of declining health. T.R. Fehrenbach died of a congenital heart defect at Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio on December 1, 2013.
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- Born
- Jan 12, 1925
San Benito - Also known as
- T. R Fehrenbach
- T.R. Fehrenbach
- Education
- Princeton University
- Died
- Dec 1, 2013
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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