Richard Halliburton

American novelist and travel writer Richard Halliburton was born in Brownsville, TN, in 1900. His family moved to Memphis, TN, when he was an infant, and he grew up there. His parents sent him to the exclusive Lawrence Preparatory School in Lawrenceville, NJ, when he was 15. Graduating in 1917 he enrolled in Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. ...