Ben Ames Williams

Ben Ames Williams was born on Mar 07, 1889 in USA. Ben Ames Williams's big-screen debut came with After His Own Heart directed by Harry L. Franklin in 1919. Ben Ames Williams is known for Leave Her to Heaven directed by John M. Stahl, Gene Tierney stars as Ellen Berent Harland and Cornel Wilde as Richard Harland. The upcoming new movie Ben Ames Williams plays is Too Good to Be True which will be released on Nov 14, 1988.

American short-story writer and novelist Ben Ames Williams was born in Macon, Mississippi, in 1889. Shortly afterwards his father, a newspaperman, bought the "Jackson Standard Journal" in Jackson, Ohio, and the family moved there. Williams grew up in the newspaper business, and while in high school he worked at the paper, starting at the bottom and eventually working his way up to writing and editing.He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1910 and was offered a job teaching at a boys school in Connecticut, but instead took a position as a reporter for the "Boston American" newspaper. His first love was writing fiction, however, and each day after work he would go home and work on his writing. In 1915 he had his first story published, "Deep Stuff", in a publication called "The Popular Magazine". In 1917 he had a story, "The Mate of the Susie Oakes", published in "The Saturday Evening Post" magazine, a publication that over the next quarter-century would publish almost 200 of his stories. Many of them--more than 125--were set in the fictional town of Fraternity, Maine (be owned a summer home in rural Maine and loved the area) and they were wildly popular with readers.Williams is probably best known for the film adaptations of his novels, such as Péché mortel (1945) and La Perle noire (1953).He died of a heart attack in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1953.