White, William Allen
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born on | 10 February 1868 at 09:30 (= 09:30 AM ) | ||||
Place | Emporia, Kansas, 38n24, 96w11 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m96w11 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
American publisher, a born writer and story-teller and the world famous publisher and editor of the Emporia Gazette in Kansas. Bill White was a friend of just about everyone that shaped American history, present at the "old West" of the mid-century. He himself was an unforgettable personality, naive and open, generous and warm-hearted, shrewd and perceptive in his chronicles. He saw Indians, the rush of settlement across the plains and the makings of the Mississippi region, relating it all in his autobiography.
As a novelist and biographer, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best editorial in 1922.
Died 1/29/1944, Emporia, KS.
Events
- Work : Prize 1922 (Pulitzer Prize)
Source Notes
LMR quotes his autobiography, MacMillon Co, NY 1946, p.3, "between nine and ten o'clock."
Categories
- Traits : Personality : Gracious/ sociable
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Friends (Friends in every walk of life)
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Emporia Gazette)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize (1922)
- Notable : Book Collection : American Book
Categories:
- 1868 births
- Birthday 10 February
- Birthplace Emporia, KS (US)
- Sun 21 Aquarius
- Moon 22 Virgo
- Asc 20 Aries
- 1944 deaths
- Traits : Personality : Gracious/ sociable
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Friends
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Awards : Pulitzer prize
- Notable : Book Collection : American Book