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Alfred H. Bill

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Alfred H. Bill
Born(1879-05-05)May 5, 1879
Rochester, New York
DiedAugust 10, 1964(1964-08-10) (aged 85)
Princeton, New Jersey
OccupationWriter

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.

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Fiction

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  • 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. January 2009. ISBN 978-1434479228; 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "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.
  2. ^ a b History of the Class of 1903, Yale College. 1913. p. 60.
  3. ^ "Author: Bill Hoyt Alfred(Alfred Hoyt Bill". American Heritage.
  4. ^ 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.
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