Ray E. Boomhower's Books

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." A.J. Liebling

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Wallace Terry, Zalin Grant, and a Mission to Cholon

Viet Cong rockets and mortars shattered Saigon’s peace early in the morning of May 5, 1968. The renewed fighting led Wallace Terry , a Time ...

Monday, January 5, 2026

A Shooting War: Margaret Bourke-White & Richard Tregaskis

Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White had undergone a nerve-racking day near the front lines dodging enemy shells that whooshed...

Thursday, December 18, 2025

The Young Turks: Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and Horst Faas in Saigon

On a rainy day in June 1962, two newsmen who provided invaluable service for the Associated Press for many years to come arrived in Saigon t...

Monday, December 8, 2025

Richard Tregaskis and the Road to Tokyo

The evening before the USS Ticonderoga ’s July 24, 1945, strike mission against the ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Kure Naval Ar...

Friday, October 3, 2025

Doctor Marjorie Nelson: A Hoosier Quaker in Vietnam

The knock on the door of the American teacher’s home came a few days after 80,000 North Vietnamese Army forces and their Viet Cong allies st...

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About Me

Ray Boomhower: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States; Biographer and ex-reporter. My numerous books have included biographies of such notable figures as Richard Tregaskis, Robert Sherrod, Gus Grissom, Ernie Pyle, Benjamin Harrison, John Bartlow Martin, Lew Wallace, Juliet Strauss, and May Wright Sewall. I also serve as senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society's popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. I am also available to lecture on a number of topics related to Indiana history. To arrange a talk, contact me at: reboomer@yahoo.com

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