Ben Ames Williams

Ben Ames Williams, a grand-nephew of General James Longstreet, has been studying the War Between the States, the historical background for House Divided, for the past twenty years. During the actual writing of the book, which took three years, he traveled over all the territory described in the book. It was not until he felt himself a mature artist, with a long list of successful novels behind him, and an expert on the period of which he was writing, that he began his most ambitious novel.