Charles Morrow Wilson Explained
Charles Morrow Wilson |
Birth Date: | 16 June 1905 |
Birth Place: | Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. |
Charles Morrow Wilson (1905 - 1977)[1] was a writer who also worked at agricultural product firms.[2] He wrote about Liberia, biographies for children, about medicine, and about trade.[3] He was the husband of Iris Woolcock.
Wilson was born in Arkansas and wrote about the state. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1926.[2] He also lived for several years in Vermont.
In the 1960s, he transitioned to writing juvenile non-fiction including biographies of Rudolf Diesel and Samuel de Champlain while working as special consultant for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[3]
Bibliography
- Aroostook: Our Last Frontier: Maine's Picturesque Inland Empire (1937) published in Brattleboro, Vermont by Stephen Daye Press
- Middle America (1944)[4]
- New Crops for the New World (1945)[5]
- School of Pan American Agriculture (1946)[6]
- Liberia: Black Africa Microcosm (1947)[7] also apparently published as Liberia 1847 - 1947[8]
- The Tropics; World of Tomorrow (1951)[9]
- One Half the People[10]
- Bodacious Ozarks: True Tales of the Backhills (1959)[11]
- News is Country Grown[12]
- The Monroe Doctrine An American Frame Of Mind
- The Great Turkey Drive (1964)
- Ambassadors In White; The Story Of American Tropical Medicine
- Stars is God's Lanterns: An Offering of Ozark Tellin' Stories (1969)
- Dow Baker and the Great Banana Fleet: The Story of the Yankee Skipper Who Befriended an Island and Introduced Bananas to America (1972)
- Roots: Miracles Below
- Geronimo (1973)
- Green Treasures; Adventures in the Discovery of Edible Plants (1974)
- The Dred Scott Decision (1973)
- Commandant Paul and the founding of Montreal
- Empire in Green and Gold about banana agriculture in Central America[13]
- The commoner: William Jennings Bryan
- Wilderness Explorer: The Story of Samuel de Champlain
Notes and References
- Web site: Charles Morrow Wilson. www.librarything.com.
- Web site: Charles Morrow Wilson, Reported on Agriculture. March 5, 1977. NYTimes.com.
- Web site: Archives West: Charles Morrow Wilson papers, circa 1908-. archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- Middle America. By Charles Morrow Wilson. (New York: W. W. Norton and Co. 1944. Pp. x, 317. $3.50.). Michael B.. McCloskey. October 2, 1944. The Americas. 1. 2. 244. 10.2307/978070. 978070. 148018099 .
- Web site: New crops for the new world. Charles Morrow. Wilson. June 2, 1945. The Macmillan company. Google Books.
- School of Pan American Agriculture. Charles Morrow. Wilson. December 1, 1946. The Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. 30. 142. 47–53. 10.1177/019263654603014211. 143453442 .
- Liberia. By Charles Morrow Wilson. (New York: William Sloanc Associates. 1947. Pp. 226. $3.75.). Vernon. McKay. July 1, 1948. The American Historical Review. 53. 4. 799. academic.oup.com. 10.1086/ahr/53.4.799.
- Web site: Liberia: 1847 - 1947 cover title by Charles Morrow Wilson on Bolerium Books. Bolerium Books.
- Web site: THE TROPICS World of Tomorrow by Charles Morrow Wilson, 1951 1st Ed in DJ. eBay.
- Charles Morrow. Wilson. September 23, 1950. Journal of the American Medical Association. 144. 4. 334. 10.1001/jama.1950.02920040048022. Review of Book by Charles Morrow Wilson.
- Web site: The Bodacious Ozarks: True Tales of the Backhills by Charles Morrow Wilson, 1959. 2019-06-02. 2019-06-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20190602024022/https://www.questia.com/library/182346/the-bodacious-ozarks-true-tales-of-the-backhills. dead.
- Web site: Charles Morrow Wilson | AMERICAN HERITAGE. www.americanheritage.com.
- Web site: EMPIRE IN GREEN AND GOLD by Charles Morrow Wilson | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.