Charles Morrow Wilson
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Charles Morrow Wilson | |
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| Born | June 16, 1905 Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | March 1, 1977 (aged 71) |
Charles Morrow Wilson (1905 - 1977)[1] was a writer who also worked at agricultural product firms.[2] He wrote about Liberia, biographies for children, about medicine, and about trade.[3] He was the husband of Iris Woolcock.
Wilson was born in Arkansas and wrote about the state.[4] He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1926.[2] He also lived for several years in Vermont.[4]
In the 1960s, he transitioned to writing juvenile non-fiction including biographies of Rudolf Diesel and Samuel de Champlain while working as special consultant for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- Aroostook: Our Last Frontier: Maine's Picturesque Inland Empire (1937) published in Brattleboro, Vermont by Stephen Daye Press
- Middle America (1944)[5]
- New Crops for the New World (1945)[6]
- School of Pan American Agriculture (1946)[7]
- Liberia: Black Africa Microcosm (1947)[8] also apparently published as Liberia 1847 - 1947[9]
- The Tropics; World of Tomorrow (1951)[10]
- One Half the People[11]
- Bodacious Ozarks: True Tales of the Backhills (1959)[12]
- News is Country Grown[4]
- The Monroe Doctrine An American Frame Of Mind
- The Great Turkey Drive (1964)
- Ambassadors In White; The Story Of American Tropical Medicine
- Stars is God's Lanterns: An Offering of Ozark Tellin' Stories (1969)
- Dow Baker and the Great Banana Fleet: The Story of the Yankee Skipper Who Befriended an Island and Introduced Bananas to America (1972)
- Roots: Miracles Below
- Geronimo (1973)
- Green Treasures; Adventures in the Discovery of Edible Plants (1974)
- The Dred Scott Decision (1973)
- Commandant Paul and the founding of Montreal
- Empire in Green and Gold about banana agriculture in Central America[13]
- The commoner: William Jennings Bryan
- Wilderness Explorer: The Story of Samuel de Champlain
References
[edit]- ^ "Charles Morrow Wilson". www.librarything.com.
- ^ a b "Charles Morrow Wilson, Reported on Agriculture". March 5, 1977 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b "Archives West: Charles Morrow Wilson papers, circa 1908-". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- ^ a b c "Charles Morrow Wilson | AMERICAN HERITAGE". www.americanheritage.com.
- ^ McCloskey, Michael B. (October 2, 1944). "Middle America. By Charles Morrow Wilson. (New York: W. W. Norton and Co. 1944. Pp. x, 317. $3.50.)". The Americas. 1 (2): 244. doi:10.2307/978070. JSTOR 978070. S2CID 148018099.
- ^ Wilson, Charles Morrow (June 2, 1945). "New crops for the new world". The Macmillan company – via Google Books.
- ^ Wilson, Charles Morrow (December 1, 1946). "School of Pan American Agriculture". The Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. 30 (142): 47–53. doi:10.1177/019263654603014211. S2CID 143453442.
- ^ McKay, Vernon (July 1, 1948). "Liberia. By Charles Morrow Wilson. (New York: William Sloanc Associates. 1947. Pp. 226. $3.75.)". The American Historical Review. 53 (4): 799. doi:10.1086/ahr/53.4.799 – via academic.oup.com.
- ^ "Liberia: 1847 - 1947 cover title by Charles Morrow Wilson on Bolerium Books". Bolerium Books.
- ^ "THE TROPICS World of Tomorrow by Charles Morrow Wilson, 1951 1st Ed in DJ". eBay.
- ^ Wilson, Charles Morrow (September 23, 1950). "Review of Book by Charles Morrow Wilson". Journal of the American Medical Association. 144 (4): 334. doi:10.1001/jama.1950.02920040048022.
- ^ "The Bodacious Ozarks: True Tales of the Backhills by Charles Morrow Wilson, 1959". Archived from the original on 2019-06-02. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^ "EMPIRE IN GREEN AND GOLD by Charles Morrow Wilson | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
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