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Alfred H. Bill
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 edit

Fiction edit

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 edit

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
- 2015 pbk reprint of 1948 edition
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 edit

^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b 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.