author
Edward W. Kilman
1896–1969
A longtime Houston newspaper editor and lively interpreter of Texas history, he wrote with the eye of a journalist and the instincts of a storyteller. His books range from frontier conflict and state politics to a biography of oilman Hugh Roy Cullen.
1 Audiobook
The Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Campaign
by Louis Wiltz Kemp, Edward W. Kilman
About the author
Born in Ennis, Texas, on November 27, 1896, he moved to Houston as a child and was educated in the city’s public schools before attending Sam Houston Normal Institute. He went on to build a long career in journalism, joining the Houston Post-Dispatch in 1925 and later becoming editor of its editorial page and, eventually, editor emeritus.
Kilman was widely known as an authority on Texas history and politics. Alongside his newspaper work, he wrote books on subjects that included the Texas Rangers, the Battle of San Jacinto, the Civil War on the Texas coast, and Houston businessman Hugh Roy Cullen, bringing regional history to general readers in a clear, accessible way.
He died in Houston on June 8, 1969. His papers and manuscript collections are preserved in Texas archives, a fitting legacy for a writer who spent so much of his life recording the people and events that shaped the state.