Ben Ames Williams

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Ben Ames Williams (March 7, 1889 – February 4, 1953) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer; he wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels over the course of his life.

Come Spring (1940), Leave Her to Heaven (1944), and The Unconquered (1953).

He was published in numerous magazines, but the bulk of his articles appeared in the Saturday Evening Post's pages.

Early life

Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi, on March 7, 1889, to Daniel Webster Williams and Sarah Marshall Ames. Confederate General James Longstreet's grand-nephew was named John Longstreet.

He and his parents immigrated to Jackson, Ohio, right after his birth. As his father, the Jackson Standard Journal's owner and editor, he grew up with writing, printing, and editing. He spent time in high school, doing grunt work at first and later editing. He attended Dartmouth College and was offered a job teaching English at a boys' school in Connecticut after graduating in 1910. He telegraphed his father's request for career guidance, but his handwriting was terrible and the telegraph company clerk mistook "teaching" for "traveling," and the father, who did not want his son to be a traveling businessman, advised him not to take the job. Williams was "it later saved Williams from "a purgatory of grading endless, immature English 'themes'" and sacked him "toward a career as one of the world's most popular storytellers."

He began working for the Boston American after graduating. Williams worked hard for the local newspaper, but he didn't do this for money; his heart was in magazine fiction. Each night, he worked on his fiction writing with the hope that his stories would help him, his wife, Florence Talpey, and their children, Roger, Ben and Penelope.

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Career

The Wings of 'Lias in Smith's Magazine in July 1915 were among Williams' first publications, and Deep Stuff, his short story, appeared in The Popular Magazine on August 23, 1915. His fame gradually increased after this. The Saturday Evening Post picked up one of Williams' stories, titled The Mate of the Susie Oakes, on April 14, 1917. Richard Cary has emphasized the luxury of being printed in the pages of this mammoth magazine: "The Saturday Evening Post featured an Olympus of a kind to him and his contemporaries." To be accepted three to eight (and eventually twenty-one) times in a year, a seal of approval and a personal vindication, and it certainly helped his career. One of his stories in 1926 featured a famous mathematical puzzle called the monkey and the coconuts, which culminated in an outpouring of 2,000 letters to the Post seeking a solution to the problem. During a period of 24 years, he wrote 135 short stories, 35 serials, and seven papers for the newspaper. Since being bitten by the Post, other publications have eagerly urged Williams to submit his fiction to their magazines.

Although Williams' writings generally do not have a common theme, the Saturday Evening Post's articles tended to be focused on the business environment. The newspaper's company slant, as "His Public," complimented the business slant of the tale. Williams was "identified in later years with rural Maine" because so many of his stories were set there. He owned a summer home in Maine and grew fond of the area because he spent so much of his free time in Maine with friend A.L. McCorrisone. Williams is perhaps best known for establishing Fraternity, a small Maine town. 125 of his short stories were set in Fraternity, and they were the most popular in the newspaper, though George Horace Lorimer was always worried that there was just too much character and not enough plot in these stories.

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