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Biography. Ben Ames Williams, Jr. was born October 25, 1915. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1938. While a senior at Dartmouth, Williams wrote "Mr. Secretary," a novel about Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940.
Apr 15, 2020 · 1. In 1944, after an intense bidding war, Twentieth Century-Fox studio head Darryl Zanuck acquired the film rights to Ben Ames Williams’s Leave Her to Heaven for $100,000, then an exorbitant price for an unpublished work. Later that year, Williams’s mystery novel, about one woman’s obsessive love for her husband, became one of the best ...
Ben Ames Williams. First published in 1947, this bestselling historical novel is cherished and remembered as one of the finest retellings of the Civil War saga—America's own War and Peace . In the first hard pinch of the Civil War, five siblings of an established Confederate Virginia family learn that their father is the grandfather of ...
Ben Ames Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi to Daniel Webster Williams and Sarah Marshall Ames on March 7, 1889. Just after his birth, he and his parents moved to Jackson, Ohio. Because his father was owner and editor of the Jackson Standard Journal in Ohio, Ben Williams grew up around writing, printing, and editing.
Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953), author. Dartmouth College Class of 1910. Consist of manuscripts of novels, short stories and nonfictional works (some unpublished)as well as maps and correspondence.
Oct 21, 2008 · Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953) was an American writer who published over thirty novels. His writing traversed a wide range of genres and evinced considerable expertise in a number of divergent fields. He achieved his greatest popularity when three of his books, All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919), The Strange Woman (1945) and Leave Her to Heaven (1946) were adapted to film.
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