Mathematician and author
Dr. DONALD R. BURLESON
in December 2006 in his office
at Eastern New Mexico University at Roswell,
just after discovering and
proving a new theorem in matrix theory.
(Photo by Mollie Burleson)
TOP LEFT: Author Donald R.
Burleson, Ph.D., at home in Roswell with feline chum Schroedie,
also called
"the Schrode," named after "Schrödinger's Cat" of quantum-theory fame;
TOP RIGHT: Relaxing at the "haunted arroyo" that inspired the
setting
of his UFO-related New Mexico novel ARROYO;
BOTTOM LEFT:
Playing drums at an event in Roswell, New Mexico; and
BOTTOM
RIGHT: Speaking at a meeting in Albuquerque of the Mutual UFO
Network.
Photos by Mollie Burleson.
LEFT: Author's wife,
best friend, and fellow UFO investigator and writer Mollie L. Burleson,
with
prairie-handy Jeep Cherokee, otherwise known as the UFO-mobile,
shown here at
a UFO investigation site in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
RIGHT:
Don and Mollie Burleson at the now famous Hangar 84
on the former Walker Air
Force Base in Roswell.
According to witness accounts, alien bodies and flying
saucer debris
were crated and shipped from this location in July
1947.
LEFT:The author at
the Coronado historical marker near the Pecos River.
RIGHT:The
author's wife Mollie Burleson at the exact spot on the Pecos River
where
Coronado and his men crossed the river in 1541 on their way
across New
Mexico. This spot figures into Don Burleson's novel Arroyo.
Donald R. Burleson's writing spans both
fiction and nonfiction.
His short stories (to read one, click here)
have appeared in many
magazines, including
Twilight Zone, 2AM, The Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction,
Deathrealm, Terminal Fright, Lore, Wicked
Mystic,
Innisfree, Potpourri, and The Roswell Literary
Review.
His work has also appeared in numerous major anthologies,
including
Best New Horror, Post Mortem, MetaHorror, 100 Ghastly Little
Ghost Stories,
100 Creepy Little Creature Stories, 100 Vicious Little Vampire
Stories,
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, 100 Tiny Tales of Terror, Made in
Goatswood,
The Azathoth Cycle, The Cthulhu Cycle, The New Lovecraft
Circle,
Gathering the Bones, Disciples of Cthulhu II,
Deathrealms:
Selected Tales From the Land Where Horror Dwells,
and others, including
anthologies from Triad
Entertainments:
Return to Lovecraft Country and Weird
Trails.
His novella Papa Loaty is included in the anthology
Poe's Progeny,
and was recommended in 2006 for a British Fantasy
Award.
He is also the author of the short story collections
Lemon Drops
and Other Horrors (Hobgoblin Press), Four Shadowings (Necronomicon
Press),
and Beyond the Lamplight (Jack-O'Lantern Press).
Scott
David Aniolowski, for Deathrealm Magazine, has called Burleson
"the
finest living author of the short horror story in America."
Burleson's
novel Flute Song (from Black Mesa Press, reissued as The Roswell
Crewman )
was nominated for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker
Award in 1996.
His other novels with Black Mesa Press include Arroyo
and A Roswell Christmas Carol.
His nonfiction works in the
field of literary criticism include
H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study
(Greenwood Press)
and Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe
(University Press of Kentucky),
as well as numerous articles in the
professional journals.
Dr. Burleson's works have been translated
into
French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese.
In the field
of UFO studies, his nonfiction works include
The Golden Age of UFOs
and UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe,
both from Black
Mesa Press,
as well as many articles in the journals MUFON UFO Journal
and IUR,
the journal of CUFOS, the
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago.
Dr. Burleson
studied at Yale University (with the Institute of Far Eastern Languages),
and
pursued graduate studies at Midwestern State University (Texas),
the
University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Rivier College (New Hampshire),
and
Columbia Pacific University (San Rafael, California).
He holds Master's
degrees both in mathematics and in English,
and a Ph.D. in English
literature, with a dissertation on H. P. Lovecraft.
He has taught at many
colleges and universities,
most recently at Eastern New Mexico University in
Roswell.
He once held a Top Secret security clearance in U.S. Air Force
Intelligence
as a Chinese language specialist. He is also fluent in
Spanish
and has a reading knowledge of French and smatterings of several
other languages.
Dr. Burleson has two sons Bruce and Brian
Burleson,
and a stepson and daughter-in-law Brian and Vera
Werba.
Since 1996 Burleson and his wife Mollie, herself a widely
published fiction writer and poet,
have lived in Roswell, New Mexico, the UFO
capital of the world,
where Burleson for eight years was the director (and
network administrator) of one of the computer labs
at Eastern New Mexico University, until
resigning from that position in August 2005
to accept a faculty position in
the Mathematics Department at the same university.
He retired with Emeritus Faculty status in August 2007, continuing to
teach some mathematics courses on a parttime basis and continuing to
conduct research in the theory of matrices and linear transformations.
(To see some of Dr.
Burleson's mathematical work,
in the area of applied eigenvector theory,
in particular to see his new theorem about semi-inversion operators
on a
subclass of the full linear group
including the Pauli "particle-spin"
matrices, click here.
Or
to see a more general theorem from Dr. Burleson's research, click here. )
He is a certified UFO
field investigator, research consultant,
and New Mexico State Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.
Aside
from his professional interests in mathematics, literature and literary
criticism,
and the field of UFO studies in which he is increasingly
immersed,
his hobbies are chess, languages, diagramless crosswords, jazz
drumming, and cryptography;
he is a longtime member of the American Cryptogram Association
and has
done research in statistical cryptanalysis.
To see a vowel-finding method
resulting from this research, click here.
Of his wife Mollie he
says, "Mollie is my very best friend in the whole world.
That's the way it
should always be. As I see it, if you're married,
and you're not married to
your best friend, you're in a lot of trouble."
Click to read an essay
about the author's views on religion.
(Dr. Burleson characterizes himself as a total religious skeptic.)
To
get an idea how truly bizarre Dr. Burleson's sense of humor can be, click here.
But only if you have a
strong stomach, and a perverse sense of humor yourself.
UFOlogist
Don Burleson speaking on national television
about the Roswell UFO
incident.
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