11 September 1920 Chicago d. 17 February 2008) was a United States Foreign Service Officer who after retirement became best known for organizing and editing the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China a standard reference work commonly referred to simply as "Boorman."
After studying briefly at Grinnell College, Boorman finished his undergraduate education at University of Wisconsin in 1941.
[1] After the war, he entered the graduate program at Yale, leaving in 1947 to become a Foreign Service Officer.
[2] He returned to work at Columbia University, where he won the Rockefeller Public Service Award in 1954–55.
[3] In 1967, Boorman joined the History Department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.