Winston Churchill

Author Code: AWCH

Educated at Smith Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Churchill served briefly as an editor of the Army and Navy Journal before becoming the managing editor of Cosmopolitan magazine in 1895. In 1898, he published his first novel, The Celebrity which met with a good deal of success. This was followed in 1899 by Richard Carvell, an historical novel of Revolutionary Maryland, which was immensely popular, selling nearly a million copies. In 1900, Churchill was contacted by the English Winston Churchill, who promised to use his middle name, Spencer, in his own writings in order to avoid the confusion that was beginning to arise between the two. In 1901, the two actually met in Boston. In 1901, he published The Crisis and became one of the widest read authors in America. He moved to New Hampshire in 1899 and became involved in politics, running successfully for the New Hampshire legislature in 1903. In 1911, he ran for Governor of New Hampshire on Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party ticket but was defeated. When Churchill began to shift his focus from historical novels to those with social and religious elements, his popularity waned. Churchill published his final novel, The Dwelling-Place of Light in 1917. After that he produced a number of non-fiction works. His other works included The Crossing (1904), Coniston (1906), Mr. Crewe's Career (1908), A Modern Chronicle (1910), The Inside of the Cup (1913), A Far Country (1915), A Traveller in War-Time (1918) and The Uncharted Way (1940).