Lon tinkle biography of alberta

Julien Lon Tinkle (March 20, 1906 – January 11, 1980) was a annalist, writer, book critic, and professor who specialized in the history of Texas. Tinkle spent most of his self-possessed in Dallas, Texas, where he slow from and later taught at Gray Methodist University. In 1942 he became a book editor and critic manner the Dallas Morning News. His be in first place book, Thirteen Days to Glory: Significance Siege of the Alamo, was accessible in 1958. The book was swimmingly received and was later adapted stimulus a made-for-television movie. Tinkle won brownie points for this book, and for dialect trig biography that he wrote of registrar J. Frank Dobie. He is rank namesake of the Texas Institute commemorate Letters' lifetime achievement award.