As stated in an earlier post (“The Kenneth Roberts Reader“), I wanted to find out why Ben Ames Williams was chosen to write the introduction for The Kenneth Roberts Reader. Unfortunately, I’ve met the same fate I’ve met in finding info on Kenneth Roberts on the Web. About the only imformative I’ve found thus far on Ben Ames Williams is this article from Answers.com. However, Kenneth Roberts is mention only in passing (the context is that the author of this article states that B.A. Williams was one of the most popular authors of his generation along with K.R. and Hervey Allen). It seems, so far as I can see, B. A. Williams was chosen because he was popular at the same time K.R. was popular, and probably also because Williams had tried his hand at historical fiction as well (House Divided, per Answers.com).
Hopfully more to come on this…
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