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American writer
A.K.A.
Charles Wilson
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Male
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Birth:
1905
Death:
1977
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Biography
Charles Morrow Wilson (1905 - 1977) was an author and expatriate from America who also worked at agricultural product firms. He wrote about Liberia, biographies for children, about medicine and about trade. He was the husband of Iris Woolcock.
Wilson was born in Arkansas and wrote about the state. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1926. He also lived for several years in Vermont.
In the 1960s, he transitioned to writing juvenile non-fiction including biographies of Rudolf Diesel and Samuel de Champlain while working as special consultant for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.