Alfred H. Bill
Encyclopedia
Alfred Hoyt Bill 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
.
One of his later works of fiction, The Wolf in the Garden, was republished by Centaur Press
in 1972.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
. His non-fiction mostly dealt with American history
History of the United States
The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The...
while his fiction (some of it aimed at children) was set in different periods of British
History of the British Isles
The history of the British Isles has witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, Ireland, and the smaller adjacent islands, which together make up the British Isles, as well as with France, Germany, the Low...
and French history
History of France
The history of France goes back to the arrival of the earliest human being in what is now France. Members of the genus Homo entered the area hundreds of thousands years ago, while the first modern Homo sapiens, the Cro-Magnons, arrived around 40,000 years ago...
.
One of his later works of fiction, The Wolf in the Garden, was republished by Centaur Press
Centaur Press
Centaur Press, later renamed Centaur Books, was a New York-based small publisher active from the late 1960s through 1981. The press was founded by Charles M. Collins and Donald M. Grant. It was primarily a paperback publisher, though one of its more successful titles was reissued in hardcover...
in 1972.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 edition from Princeton University Press (ISBN 0-691-04641-7, 228p.) was revised by Constance M. Greiff.
- 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.