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John Lee (born March 12, 1931) is an American writer of thrillers, many of them set in Second World War settings, as well as non-fiction books. He was also a professor of journalism, distinguished by his conscious decision not to take up a doctorate despite having made all the preparations for it. He was married to novelist Barbara Moore until her death in 2002 and regularly commuted between Memphis, Tennessee and Texas. Retired from teaching, he is now married to Shirley Miller Lee, a former South African, living on a ranch in Central Texas. His best-known book is ''The Ninth Man'', in which a daring Nazi spy penetrates the White House and nearly succeeds in assassinating President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He has also written six non-fiction books, including two popular university journalism texts (co-written with Edward Jay Friedlander). ==Biography== Born in Oklahoma, Lee was raised and educated in Brownsville, Texas. He attended college at Texas Tech, where he studied journalism under J. Russell Heitman, earning a B.A. While at Tech, he met and married fellow student Jeane Womack. They had a daughter, Janet Carol (Lee's only child), in 1952. Upon graduation, he went to work briefly as a sports writer for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, then was hired by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he spent the next five years. His first marriage ended in 1956. In 1957, he married reporter Barbara Moore, who was also to become a novelist. The couple went to Europe for a year, living in Fuengirola, Spain, and returned to the United States in 1958 to work for the Denver Post for two years, then to corporate public relations for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio. After two years at Goodyear, they went to Mexico to continue writing fiction. In 1963, they returned to Texas, where Moore took a reporting job with the San Antonio Light and Lee remained at home, writing. A year later, Lee was offered a position as editor of the English-language Tehran Journal in Iran, but chose instead to return to school. He took a position at West Virginia University, where he taught courses in photography and earned a masters in Journalism, with a minor in Broadcast Television. His master's thesis, a study of English-language newspapers around the world in non-English-speaking countries, was published and sold to newspaper and government people by the West Virginia journalism department. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Lee (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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