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William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist, politician and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. [1]
Jun 7, 2024 · William Gilmore Simms (born April 17, 1806, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died June 11, 1870, Charleston) was an outstanding Southern novelist. Motherless at two, Simms was reared by his grandmother while his father fought in the Creek wars and under Jackson at New Orleans in 1814.
William Gilmore Simms: An Overview. By David Moltke-Hansen, Director of the Simms Initiatives. Jump to: Background | Personal Life | Career | Associations | Thought | Writings | Posthumous Career. Introduction.
Welcome to the official page of the William Gilmore Simms Society, a scholarly society established in 1993 and dedicated to facilitating the exchange of ideas about the life and work of William Gilmore Simms, one of 19th century America’s preeminent novelists, poets, and men-of-letters.
In the mid-nineteenth century, William Gilmore Simms did more than any other writer and editor to frame white southern self-identity, nationalism, and historical consciousness. He also did more to foster the South’s literary life and place in America’s imagination.
Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870) Writer. Simms was born in Charleston, S.C., and lived much of his life in or near it, making frequent visits to northern publishing centers and to the Gulf Coast and the southern mountains.
May 21, 2018 · American author William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the dominant literary personality of the antebellum South, is chiefly remembered for his novels on subjects derived from American history. William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, S.C.
