William E. Wilson (writer)

William E. Wilson (1906–1988) was the author of eleven books, including The Wabash, and was a professor of fiction writing and literature at Indiana University from 1950 to 1972.

Biography

William E. Wilson was born in 1906, the son of William E. Wilson, who served as a member of Congress.[1] The younger Wilson spent much of his childhood in or around Evansville, Indiana. He graduated from Harvard University, served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, and spent two years as a Fulbright Scholar at Aix-Marseille University, Grenoble and Nice, France before landing at Baltimore, Maryland where he became Assistant Editor of the Baltimore Sun. He married Ellen Janet Cameron.

In 1950, he left the Baltimore Sun, joining the faculty of Indiana University where he became a professor of fiction writing and literature until his retirement in 1972. Indiana University has a William E. Wilson Fellowship in Fiction named in his honor.

His first wife, Ellen Janet Cameron, died in 1976. He married Hana Benes in 1977. Wilson died in 1988.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

Fiction

Children’s

  • Shooting Star: The Story of Tecumseh, Farrar & Rinehart, New York; 1942
  • Abe Lincoln of Pigeon Creek, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949
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References

  1. Wilson, William E. (August 1, 1965). "Long, Hot Summer In Indiana". American Heritage. New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Company.

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