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William D. Ellis,Novelist
1967 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Although William Donahue Elliswas born to be a writer, his readers might be forgiven if they assume he once received formal training in other disciplines.
Seemingly part archaeologist, part anthropologist, part genealogist, and part psychologist, Ellis mined the centuries to unearth the raw material he would mold into his fiction and nonfiction books. With no instrument more elaborate than a typewriter, he managed to create popular regional histories and award-winning volumes of historical fiction that brought Ohio’s past to life in a manner that was not just informative and entertaining, but as vivid as an epic film.
Born in 1918 in Concord, Massachusetts, Ellis began writing at the age of 12, at the urging of an elementary-school teacher who early on discerned his talent.
Over the course of the next seven decades his teacher’s judgment would be validated again and again by readers and
