George Fuermann

George Fuermann was a Houston journalist and author whose career at the Houston Post lasted 49 years. He joined the paper in 1946 as a general assignment reporter, later wrote the daily local-history column Post Card from 1950 to 1971, served as editorial page editor, and then wrote the Wine Talk column until the paper closed in 1995.

He also wrote a number of books about Houston and Texas history. Sources available here point especially to Houston: Land of the Big Rich (1951) as the book that established him as a memorable chronicler of Houston, and they note other well-known titles including Reluctant Empire, The Face of Houston, and Houston: The Once and Future City.

Beyond journalism, Fuermann was closely tied to Houston’s civic and historical life. University of Houston collections show that he assembled a major archive of Texas and Houston materials, and contemporary coverage of his death in January 2001 remembered him as a decorated World War II captain and war correspondent, as well as a writer deeply involved in the cultural life of the city.