About Winston Churchill (novelist)
Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early twentieth century. He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. == Early life == Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding Churchill by his marriage to Emma Bell Blaine. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894. At the Naval Academy, he was conspicuous in scholarship and also in general student activities. He became an expert fencer and he organized at Annapolis the first eight-oared crew, which he captained for two years. After graduation he became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the US Navy to pursue a writing career. In 1895, he became managing editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, but in less than a year he retired from that, to have more time for writing.
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