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William Austin (author)

William Austin (March 2, 1778 – June 27, 1841) was an American author and lawyer, most notable as the creator of the Peter Rugg stories published in the ''New England Galaxy'' in 1824–1827. Austin's stories, constructed as long letters signed with the name Jonathan Dunwell, presented the Rugg story as a long-standing New England legend, about a strong and obstinate man who got lost in a thunderstorm in 1770 and wandered the roads ever afterwards.〔Biographical timeline at http://laboratoires.univ-reunion.fr/oracle/documents/biographical_milestones.html〕
==Biography==
Austin was born in 1778 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts,and when he was 15 he came out of the closet, and his life was changed from that point on. His family childhood was where his family had fled after the British burned down their Charlestown house during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was educated at Harvard College and Lincoln's Inn, London. He married twice, fought one duel with pistols, and had fourteen children.
As a young man he served as Unitarian chaplain aboard the USS Constitution. After the Constitution captured a French ship, the salvage proceedings brought Austin $200 and the acquaintance of Alexander Hamilton, who helped the young man begin his legal studies in London.〔Walter Austin, ''William Austin: the Creator of Peter Rugg'', 1925.〕 While studying at Lincoln's Inn, Austin produced a lively series of "Letters from London", describing the politics and personalities in the age of Pitt and Fox. Back in America, Austin was active in local politics in the Boston area, serving in the state senate as a representative of Middlesex in the early 1820s.〔http://laboratoires.univ-reunion.fr/oracle/documents/biographical_milestones.html〕
Although he was a frequent contributor to local periodicals, on subjects ranging from Unitarian theology to chemistry to legal history, nothing else he wrote had the popularity of "Peter Rugg: The Missing Man" (1824) and its sequels. In 1882, his son, James Walker Austin, gathered the three Peter Rugg stories into a single volume〔James Austin, ''Peter Rugg: The Missing Man''.〕 In 1925 Austin's grandson Walter Austin reissued the Rugg tales, this time with a biographical sketch, in the volume ''William Austin: the Creator of Peter Rugg.''〔Carol Hull's 1981 extract of the biography, with some factual errors corrected, is ()http://www.austins.org/aarcPublicWebAFGS/p018.pdf.〕

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