Suzanne Shelton Buckley

Linda Suzanne Shelton Buckley ( Shelton; born April 27, 1946) is an American historian and journalist. Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, she initially worked for media outlets like the Houston Post, Texas Monthly, Dance Magazine, and KLRU, she obtained her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with a dissertation later published as a book, and later taught at UT Austin and became a 1986 Guggenheim Fellow. She later moved to India after her husband's death, and she eventually became general secretary of Alliance Educational Foundation, which operates Sri Adwayananda Public School.

Biography Linda Suzanne Shelton Her mother, Elsa Barnes Shelton (1922–1973), was an elementary school teacher based in Wichita Falls. She was a 1963 graduate of S. H. Rider High School, where she spent two years as their yearbook's editor-in-chief, before moving on to University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), where she got her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1968 and her Master of Arts in American Studies in 1973. Originally an English teacher at UT Austin as of 1971, She was appointed a Council for International Exchange of Scholars Indo-American Fellow in 1983. for "an American perspective on Indian dance".

On December 30, 1971, she married John Cantwell Buckley (c. 1928–1986), an orthopedic surgeon based in Austin and an English professor who taught history of medicine at UT Austin. They had one child, with whom she moved to India after his death,

Her papers are held at the University of Denver Special Collections and Archives. Filmography YearTitleNoteRef. 1980–1983 Panorama 90 Dance editor 1980–1983 Art Beat Dance editor