Alfred H. Bill

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]

Alfred H. Bill
Born1879
Died1964 (aged 84–85)
OccupationWriter

One of his later works of fiction, The Wolf in the Garden, was republished by Centaur Press in 1972.

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.
  • 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.

References
  1. "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.


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