Edward Ball (Author)
Edward Ball (born October 8, 1959 in Savannah (Georgia) , USA ) is an American journalist , author and university professor .
Life
Ball grew up in the southern United States and attended Brown University in Providence, the capital of Rhode Island . After graduating there in 1982, he went to New York City and initially worked as a freelance art critic on the subjects of art, film and literature. For several years he worked as a columnist for the New York newspaper The Village Voice .
Ball began researching his family history in the 1990s. The Ball family used up to 4,000 people as slaves on their 25 rice plantations in South Carolina from 1698 to the liberation of slaves in 1865 . His first book from 1998 on this family history Slaves in the Family was awarded the National Book Award for nonfiction and published in German in 1999.
Ball lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University .
Publications
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Slaves in the family . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-345431057 .
- German by Hans Günther Holl: The plantations on the Cooper River. A southern dynasty and their slaves . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-10-004804-0 .
- The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black in the South . Morrow, 2001.
- Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love . Simon & Schuster, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-743235606 .
- The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA . Simon & Schuster, New York City 2007, ISBN 978-0-743266581 .
- The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures . Doubleday, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-3855-2575-6 .
Web links
- Buchbesprechung at CNN (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ball, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist, author, and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Savannah (Georgia) , Georgia , United States |