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Ben Ames Williams (March 7, 1889 – February 4, 1953) was an American novelist and writer of short stories; he wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. Among his novels are Come Spring (1940), Leave Her to Heaven (1944) House Divided (1947), and The Unconquered (1953).
Ben Ames Williams was an American short-story writer and novelist who wrote over 200 stories for The Saturday Evening Post. He is best known for his novels that were adapted into films, such as Leave Her to Heaven and The Strange Woman.
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- March 7, 1889
- Ben Ames Williams
- February 4, 1953
Ben Ames Williams has 89 books on Goodreads with 5268 ratings. Ben Ames Williams’s most popular book is Leave Her to Heaven.
Sep 18, 2018 · A classic tale of a miserly lender who meets a shocking fate in a harsh winter. Read the full text of this 1919 story by Ben Ames Williams, a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction.
Ben Ames Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi to Daniel Webster Williams and Sarah Marshall Ames on March 7, 1889. Just after his birth, he and his parents moved to Jackson, Ohio. Because his father was owner and editor of the Jackson Standard Journal in Ohio, Ben Williams grew up around writing, printing, and editing.
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- February 4, 1953
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Apr 15, 2020 · 1. In 1944, after an intense bidding war, Twentieth Century-Fox studio head Darryl Zanuck acquired the film rights to Ben Ames Williams’s Leave Her to Heaven for $100,000, then an exorbitant price for an unpublished work.
Ben Ames Williams. Writer: Leave Her to Heaven. American short-story writer and novelist Ben Ames Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi, in 1889. Shortly afterwards his father, a newspaperman, bought the "Jackson Standard Journal" in Jackson, Ohio, and the family moved there.
