Arthur Bernon Tourtellot (July 23, 1913 – Oct 1977) was an American writer, screenwriter and producer best known for the book Lexington and Concord.

History

Arthur Bernon Tourtellot was born July 23, 1913. He was a fellow at Middlebury College

Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

 in 1938 and was at a writer's conference at the Bread Loaf Campus in 1941. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.

At the end of the War he served as the Associate Producer of two March of Time documentaries. The first, Crusade in Europe

Crusade in Europe

Crusade in Europe is a book by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948. Maps were provided by Rafael Palacios.Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures of World War II...

, was based on Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

's book of the same name. He died in October 1977.

Non-Fiction

• Be Loved No More the Life and Environment of Fanny Burney
  Fanny Burney
  Frances Burney , also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney...
  
   (Houghton Mifflin Co Boston, 1938)
• The Charles (Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1941) (14th volume in the Rivers of America Series
  Rivers of America Series
  The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers, for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians. The series spanned three publishers and thirty-seven years.- History :...
  
  )
• Selections for Today by Woodrow Wilson (Editor) (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945)
• Life’s Picture History of World War II (Editor) (Time, Inc., New York, 1950)
• An Anatomy of American Politics; Innovation Versus Conservatism (Bobbs-Merrill Company
  Bobbs-Merrill Company
  The Bobbs-Merrill Company was a book publisher located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Bobbs-Merrill was known for publishing such authors as Richard Halliburton, David Markson, Ayn Rand, James Whitcomb Riley, Walter Dean Myers, and Irma S. Rombauer. Bobbs-Merrill also published the early works of...
  
  , Indianapolis, IN,1950)
• Lexington and Concord (W. W. Norton & Co, New York,1959)
• William Diamond's Drum: the Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1959)
• "Biography of William S. Paley," (unpublished manuscript, 1961–1967, Archives of Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY)
• Toward the Well-Being of Mankind, 50 Years of the Rockefeller Foundation
  Rockefeller Foundation
  The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
  
   (Editor) (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1964 and Hutchinson
  Hutchinson (publisher)
  Hutchinson & Co. was an English book publisher, founded in 1887. The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, where it remains as an imprint in the Cornerstone Publishing division...
  
  , London, 1964)
• The Presidents on the Presidency (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1964)
• The Lost Revolution: The Story of Twenty Years of Neglected Opportunities in Vietnam and of America's Failure to Foster Democracy There (Editor) (Harper & Row, New York, 1965)
• Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, the Boston Years (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1977)]

Articles

• History and the Historical Novel Where Fact and Fantasy Meet and Part, (Saturday Review, XII, August 24, 1940)
• The Early Reading of Benjamin Franklin (Harvard Library Bulletin, Cambridge, MA, 1975)
• Rebels, turn out your dead!— (American Heritage Magazine, August 1970 Volume 21, Issue 5)