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A Short Biography of Will Durant

Author Name:

Will Durant

Born As:

William James Durant

Other Names:

Will Durant

Born:

05 Nov 1885

Died:

07 Nov 1981




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Writer, historian, and philosopher                          
Selected Works:

Philosophy and the Social Problem - 1917
The Story of Philosophy - 1926
Transition. New York - 1927
The Mansions of Philosophy. New York - 1929. Later with slight revisions re-published as The Pleasures of Philosophy
The Case for India. New York - 1930
Adventures in Genius - 1931
The Pleasures of Philosophy -1953
Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel (1968) The Lessons of History - 1968, with Ariel Durant
Interpretations of Life - 1970, with Ariel Durant
A Dual Autobiography - 1977, with Ariel Durant
Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age - 2001. Actually copyrighted by John Little and the Estate of Will Durant.
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time - 2002

The Story of Civilization:

Our Oriental Heritage - 1935
The Life of Greece - 1939
Caesar and Christ - 1944
The Age of Faith - 1950
The Renaissance. - 1953
The Reformation - 1957
The Age of Reason Begins - 1961, with Ariel Durant
The Age of Louis XIV - 1963, with Ariel Durant
The Age of Voltaire - 1965, with Ariel Durant
Rousseau and Revolution - 1967, with Ariel Durant
The Age of Napoleon - 1975, with Ariel Durant.                          
Mother Mary Allard
Father Joseph Durant
Wife                          
Founder of General Motors