George F. Willison
George Findley Willison (1896–1972) was a writer and editor who specialized in American history.[1] He also worked in education, journalism, art, public relations, and the military.
Willison was born in Denver, Colorado and attended the University of Colorado, earning a Bachelor of Arts and graduating in 1918.[2] After serving briefly in the US Army during World War I, he won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford from 1920-1923 with a focus on English history, economics, and political science. He followed this with a year in Paris studying French literature at Sorbonne University.[3]
He returned to the US and worked for newspapers in Denver and New York City between 1925 and 1927.
He spent much of his adult life in New York, after purchasing a home from fellow author Katherine Anne Porter. Notable among his books is Saints and Strangers, about the lives of the Mayflower Pilgrims.[4] He also wrote Cliffs Notes for the books Pilgrim's Progress and The Federalist, and contributed to the History of Pittsfield, MA.
Books
[edit]- Here They Dug The Gold (1931, rev. 1945)
- Why Wars are Declared (1936)
- Saints and Strangers (1945)
- ''Behold Virginia: the fifth crown. Being the trials, adventures & disasters of the first families of Virginia, the rise of the grandees & the eventual triumph of the common & uncommon sort in the Revolution (1951)
- I Am an American - Patrick Henry and His World (1969)
- The Pilgrim Reader (1953)
References
[edit]- ^ "George Willison, Historian, 76, Dies". The New York Times. August 1, 1972.
- ^ "Collection: George and Toni Willison papers | Archival Collections". archives.lib.umd.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
- ^ "GEORGE WILLISON, HISTORIAN, 76, DIES". The New York Times. 1972-08-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
- ^ Willison, George F. (September 3, 2011). Saints & Strangers: Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and Their Families. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412818254 – via Google Books.
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