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Edward Ball (born October 8, 1959) is an American writer, a university instructor and the author of five books of non-fiction, including ''Slaves in the Family'' (1998) and ''The Inventor and the Tycoon'' (2013). ''The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures'' (Doubleday) tells the story of the partnership, during the 1870s, between California railroad magnate Leland Stanford and solitary photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who killed a man, and then went on to invent motion pictures. ''Slaves in the Family'' is a book about the author'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.〔(Top 5 Reasons to See ‘12 Years A Slave’ - EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion : EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion )〕 The book won the National Book Award, became a New York Times bestseller,〔(First Chapters: Nonfiction Index - ''The New York Times'' )〕 was featured on ''Oprah'', and was translated into several languages.〔Faust, Drew Gilpin (1 March 1998). (Skeletons in the Family Closet ), ''The New York Times''〕〔(19 November 1998). (National Book Awards Given ), ''Lawrence Journal-World''〕 Ball's other books include a biography of a transsexual and scandal figure from the 1960s, Dawn Langley Simmons, and a history of a rich black family in the Jim Crow South, the Harlestons of South Carolina. ==Education== He was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1959 and grew up in the South. He attended Brown University, graduating in 1982. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Ball (American author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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