Alfred H. Bill Explained

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

Fiction

• 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. ; Book: 2021 pbk edition. January 2009 . Wildside Press. 978-1434479228.

  145 pages, a werewolf thriller set in a village in New York state, soon after the end of the American Revolution

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• The Ring of Danger, A Tale of Elizabethan England. New York, A.A. Knopf, 1948, 259p.

Non-fiction

• Astrophel; or, The Life and Death of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney. New York, Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937, 372p.
• The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865, New York, Knopf, 1946, 313p.
• Rehearsal for Conflict; the War with Mexico, 1846-1848. New York, A.A. Knopf, 1947, 342p.
• The Campaign of Princeton, 1776-1777, Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ. Press, 1948, 145p.
  • 2015 pbk reprint of 1948 edition
• Valley Forge; the Making of an Army. New York, Harper, 1952, 259p.
• 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 (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.
• 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.

Notes and References

1. News: 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.
2. Book: History of the Class of 1903, Yale College . 60 . 1913 .
3. Web site: Author: Bill Hoyt Alfred(Alfred Hoyt Bill . American Heritage .
4. 10.1215/00382876-54-1-165 . A House Called Morven: Its Role in American History, 1701-1954 by Alfred Hoyt Bill, in collaboration with Walter E. Edge . 1955 . Durden . Robert F. . Robert Franklin Durden. South Atlantic Quarterly . 54 . 165–166 . 257867904 .