Alfred H. Bill | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 5, 1879 Rochester, New York |
| Died | August 10, 1964 (aged 85) Princeton, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Writer |
Alfred Hoyt Bill (1879–1964) was an American writer. His non-fiction mostly dealt with American history while his fiction (some of it aimed at children) was set in different periods of British and French history.[1]
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1903 from Yale University. After graduating, he was an instructor in English in the preparatory department of Seabury Divinity School in Faribault, Minnesota.[2] In 1933 he and his wife moved to Princeton, New Jersey.[3] The couple lived at 103 Mercer Street[1] (on the same street as the Albert Einstein House). He wrote approximately 20 books on European and American history.[1]
Upon his death in 1964, he was survived by his widow, the former Florence Dorothy Reid (1881–1967), their son Edward Clarke Bill[1] (born in 1910)[2] a daughter, and one grandchild.[1] The first son of Alfred and Florence Bill was born in 1906 and survived for less than a year. Their daughter Florence (1907–1997) was married to Gregory Tschebotarioff.
Bibliography
Fiction
- The Clutch of the Corsican: A Tale of the Days of Downfall of the Great Napoleon. Boston, Little, Brown, 1925, 241p.
- Highroads of Peril: Being the Adventures of Franklin Darlington, American, Among the Secret Agents of the Exiled Louis XVIII, King of France. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1926, 322p.
- Alas, Poor Yorick! Being Three Hitherto Unrecorded Adventures In the Life of the Reverend Laurence Sterne, A.B., Vicar of Coxwold In Yorkshire, Etc., Etc.. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1927, 263p.
- The Red Prior's Legacy: The Story of the Adventures of an American Boy in the French Revolution. London, Longmans, Green, 1929, 256p.
- The Wolf In the Garden. New York, Longmans, Green, 1931, 287p. LCCN 31-25266; 2021 pbk edition. Wildside Press. ISBN 1434479226; 145 pages, a werewolf thriller set in a village in New York state, soon after the end of the American Revolution
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - The Ring of Danger, A Tale of Elizabethan England. New York, A.A. Knopf, 1948, 259p.
Non-fiction
- Astrophel; or, The Life and Death of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney. New York, Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937, 372p. LCCN 37-21785
- The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865, New York, Knopf, 1946, 313p. LCCN 45-10869
- Rehearsal for Conflict; the War with Mexico, 1846-1848. New York, A.A. Knopf, 1947, 342p. LCCN 47-31194
- The Campaign of Princeton, 1776-1777, Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ. Press, 1948, 145p. LCCN 48-5265
- Valley Forge; the Making of an Army. New York, Harper, 1952, 259p. LCCN 52-5420
- A House called Morven, Its Role in American History, 1701-1954 (with Walter E. Edge). Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1954, 206p.[4]
- 1978 edition from Princeton University Press (ISBN 0-691-04641-7, 228p.) was revised by Constance M. Greiff.
- 2015 pbk reprint of 1978 edition
- Horsemen, Blue and Gray: a Pictorial History (with James Ralph Johnson, illustrated by Hirst Dilon Milhollen). New York, Oxford University Press, 1960, 236p. LCCN 59-10461
- New Jersey and the Revolutionary War. Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand, The New Jersey historical series, v. 11, 1964, 117p.
- "Fighting Bob": the Life and Exploits of Commodore Robert Field Stockton, United States Navy. Princeton, Princeton University Library, 1966.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "ALFRED H. BILL, 85, WROTE ON HISTORY; Author of 20 Books on U. S. and European Events Dies". The New York Times. August 12, 1964.
- 1 2 History of the Class of 1903, Yale College. 1913. p. 60.
- ↑ "Author: Bill Hoyt Alfred(Alfred Hoyt Bill". American Heritage.
- ↑ Durden, Robert F. (1955). "A House Called Morven: Its Role in American History, 1701-1954 by Alfred Hoyt Bill, in collaboration with Walter E. Edge". South Atlantic Quarterly. 54: 165–166. doi:10.1215/00382876-54-1-165. S2CID 257867904.