American author William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the dominant literary personality of the antebellum South, is chiefly remembered for his novels on subjects derived from American history. William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, S.C. His father,...

Unquestionably the author with the best claim to being the Honoré de Balzac of American literature, William Gilmore Simms was in fact more prolific and wide-ranging than the great Frenchman himself. The page count of work published in book form...

In his rich and varied career as writer, William Gilmore Simms expended no less energy on his magazine editing than on his poetry, novels, short stories, and essays. He brought to his magazine work the same vitality that distinguishes his literary work...

The Simms Reader: Selections from the Writings of William Gilmore Simms. Edited by John Caldwell Guilds. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Pp. [xiv ], 412. $42.50, ISBN 0-8139-2019-1.) Literary scholar John Guilds is a...

William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier Edited by John C. Guilds and Caroline Collins University of Georgia Press, 1997 276 pp. Cloth, $ 55.00 William Gilmore Simms has long been a critical problem and opportunity. In the fitfully vanishing days when...