Durant, Will

Will Durant
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Name	Durant, Will Gender: M
Birthname	Durant, William James
born on	5 November 1885 at 12:30 (= 12:30 PM )
Place	North Adams, Massachusetts, 42n42, 73w07
Timezone	EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: McEvoy
Astrology data	13°30' 29°36 Asc. 03°10'

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Will Durant
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Biography

American historian and educator. He studied for the priesthood while working as a professor of Latin and French. Disillusioned, he left in 1911 and moved to New York, rebelling as a radical anarchist. In 1917, he completed his Ph.D.

Durant published "The Story of Philosophy" in 1926. When it became a best-seller, it allowed him to write full time. With his wife and coauthor, Ariel, he published the first volume of their famed "The Story of Civilization" in 1935, a series that they continued to 1967, when they won the Pulitzer Prize. They moved to Los Angeles in 1935 where they wrote and researched, living a secluded life style, writing and researching other than occasional lectures.

He died on Nov. 7, 1981 in, Los Angeles while recovering from surgery less than two weeks after his beloved wife and partner passed away at their home. He had just turned 96.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• spouse relationship with Durant, Ariel (born 10 May 1898). Notes: Happy

Events

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1926 (The Story of Philosophy)

• Work : Prize 1967 (Pulitzer Prize)

• Death, Cause unspecified 7 November 1981 (age 96)
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Source Notes

Frances McEvoy quotes him

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive (Ph.D.)

• Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (Long term)

• Family : Relationship : Marriage - Compatible (Common interests)

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (One, lasting)

• Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Rejection/ Leave church (Left the church)

• Vocation : Education : Teacher (Latin and French)

• Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy (Philosophy, Civilization)

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction (History, philosophy)

• Notable : Famous : Historic figure (Historian)