Ben Lucien Burman

Ben Lucien Burman (born 12 December 1895 in Covington, Kentucky, † November 12, 1984 in New York ) was an American journalist and writer.

Life

Burman authored with Big river to cross: Mississippi Life Today a journalistic account of the life on the Mississippi and Blow for a landing a novel about the adventures of this river. Particularly well known he was by the animal fables about the fictional place Catfish Bend (Katz Fish Bay ). Burman was married to Alice Caddy Burman (1896-1977), who illustrated many of his novels. During the Second World War, he reported from North Africa over the Vichy regime.

Burman died in 1984 of a stroke.

Works

• Blow for a landing (1938, dt: The large current)
• Big river to cross: Mississippi Life Today (1940 )

• Seven Stars for Catfish Bend (1956, dt: Seven Stars for the cat fish bay )
• Strange Invasion of Catfish Bend (1980, dt: peace festival in the bay cat fish )