Francis Russell (author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American writer
Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1910
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 20-Mar-1989
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Francis Russell (author)
- Francis Russell (January 12, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts – March 20, 1989 in Falmouth, Massachusetts) was an American author specializing in American history and historical figures.
- Russell is best known for his book on Warren G.
- Harding, The Shadow of Blooming Grove.
- He graduated from Bowdoin College, and from Harvard University, with a master's degree in 1937. He served in the Canadian Army from 1941 to 1946. He married Rosalind Lawson.
- He had a daughter from a previous marriage.His papers are kept at Bowdoin College.Russell became embroiled in a lawsuit with some of the heirs of Warren Harding around the publication of his 1968 biography of the former president.
- Alleging that they had been embarrassed by the previous publication of some of the love letters of Harding, the heirs sued and won a judgement preventing the publication of the letters by Russell.His work on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the award-winning Tragedy In Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1962), continued with the 1986 publication of Sacco & Vanzetti: The Case Resolved.
- In it, he claimed to solve the case, proposing that only Nicola Sacco was guilty and Bartholomew Vanzetti was innocent.
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