Biographical Note
Carter Jefferson started his adult working career as a reporter on the Hillsboro (TX) Daily Mirror, moved from there to United Press, and then to the Fort Worth Press. After completing graduate work at the University of Chicago, he taught modern European history at Wayne State University, the U. of Michigan, Rutgers U., and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. After retiring as a full professor, he studied counseling, and spent seventeen years as a family therapist. Since then he has been writing fiction and essays for Web publications, and at present is editor of The Internet Review of Books, a co-administrator in the Internet Writing Workshop, and a facilitator for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at U.Mass./ Boston. He is married and the father of one daughter.
Writing Experience
Political Biography: Anatole France: the Politics of Skepticism (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1965).
Large part of college textbook, A History of World Civilizations, ed. Edward R. Tannenbaum (N.Y: John Wiley, 1973).
Numerous scholarly articles and book reviews in historical journals, one article in systems therapy journal.
Short stories and essays published in The Trident, literary magazine of US Naval Academy, and in various e-zines.
Numerous book reviews in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune.
Hundreds of newspaper articles in Texas Tribune, Hillsboro Daily Mirror, United Press, Fort Worth Press.
Radio news writing for United Press.
Travel
Lived in Texas; Washington, D.C.; Innsbruck, Austria; Chicago; Paris, France; Detroit; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Highland Park and North Branch, N.J., Boston.
Visited most of US; also parts of Japan, Egypt, France, Italy, Germany, Low Countries, Greece. Sweden, Denmark, Quebec, New Brunswick, Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji.
Education and employment
Kid stuff: Newspaper route, bicycle messenger for drugstore, curbside clerk for laundry; writer for Texas Tribune, Italian community newspaper based in Dallas.
Attended Dallas, Texas, public schools, then spent two years at Texas A.&M, two years at the U.S. Naval Academy; received B.A. in Economics from George Washington University in 1949. Reporter at Hillsboro (Tex.) Mirror (1949), staff writer for United Press Association (1949-50). Served as officer in USS DeHaven, a destroyer, during the Korean War, returned to United Press late in 1951 and then was reporter and editor at Fort Worth (Tex.) Press, 1952-53. M.A in history, Southern Methodist University, 1955; Ph.D. in history, University of Chicago, 1959. Taught modern European history at Wayne State U., Detroit; U. of Michigan, and Rutgers U. (N.J.). Professor of History and administrator, U. of Massachusetts at Boston, 1969-79. M.Ed. in counselling, Northeastern U., 1979; graduate of Boston Family Institute, 1979. Private practice of family therapy until 1998.
Personal
Married Lucy Eleanor Brundrett of Chicago; one child, Laura Eleanor Jefferson; two grandchildren, Sam Jones and Eleanor Jefferson.
Avocations--messing with computers, writing fiction and memoirs. Owned and flew Cessna 182 for several years.
