Edward Ball (American author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Edward Ball (American author)

American history writer and journalist

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1959

Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, United States

Profession: writer, university teacher, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Edward Ball (born October 8, 1959) is an American writer and the author of six books of non-fiction, including Slaves in the Family (1998), The Inventor and the Tycoon (2013), and Life of a Klansman (forthcoming 2020). Set during the 1870s,The Inventor and the Tycoon tells the story of the partnership between California railroad magnate Leland Stanford and landscape photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who documented Yosemite Valley, committed a murder, and went on to create the first moving pictures, leading to the invention of cinema. Slaves in the Family is a book about Edward Ball's family, slaveowners in South Carolina for 170 years.
It recounts the author's search for and meetings with African Americans whose ancestors his family once enslaved.
The book won the National Book Award, became a New York Times bestseller, was featured on Oprah, and was translated into several languages.Life of a Klansman, forthcoming in spring 2020 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, tells the story of a foot soldier in the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana during Reconstruction, after the Civil War, examining the life of one man who involves himself in violent white supremacy. Ball's other books include a biography of Dawn Langley Simmons, a trans woman who aroused bigotry and fascination during the 1960s, and a history of a prosperous black family in the Jim Crow South, the Harlestons of South Carolina.