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Wilson, William Edward was born on February 12, 1906 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of William Edward and Nettie (Cook) Wilson.
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Published 1958; number 111 of 1000; Signed by author; "a delightfully humorous impressions if a Hoosier boyhood"
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"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites." ―Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book Review Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists―the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments―Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.
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Wilson, William Edward was born on February 12, 1906 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of William Edward and Nettie (Cook) Wilson.
AB cum laude, Harvard, 1927; AM, Harvard, 1930; the Doctor of Letters, University Evansville, 1962.
Teacher San German (Puerto Rico) High School, 1927. Reporter Evansville Press, 1927-1928, New Bedford (Massachusetts) Standard, 1928-1929. Instructor English Brown University, 1930-1933.
Chairman English department Rhode Island School of Design, 1933-1942. Associate editor Evening Sun, Baltimore, 1947-1948. Professor English University Colorado.
Director Writers' Conference in Rocky Mountains, 1948-1950. Professor English Indiana University, 1950-1967, James A. Work professor English, 1967-1973, professor emeritus, 1973-1988. Fulbright lecturer Aix-Marseille University, Grenoble University, Nice Cours d'Eté, France, 1956-1957.
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Member overseers commission to visit English department Harvard University, 1954-1958. Served to Lieutenant commander of The United States Navy Reserve, 1942-1946.
Married Ellen Janet Cameron, June 29, 1929 (deceased December 1976). Children: William Edward 3d, Henry Cameron, Douglas Cook. Married Hana Benes, September 29, 1977.